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Far From the Customary Skies choose

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[UK] W. Eyster Far from the Customary Skies 299: Diction-airs ain’t worth a drat [...] People don’t talk those words.
at not worth a damn, phr.
[UK] W. Eyster Far from the Customary Skies 329: Hell, Oakie, I just got up in the air.
at up in the air (adj.) under air, n.
[UK] W. Eyster Far from the Customary Skies 299: I’m tard of you bein’ so all-blamed smart.
at all, adv.
[UK] W. Eyster Far from the Customary Skies 324: Can she make with her ass or’s she too old to remember what it’s like?
at ass, n.
[UK] W. Eyster Far from the Customary Skies 116: Oklahoma referred to him as, ‘that kiss-ass’.
at kiss-ass, n.
[UK] W. Eyster Far from the Customary Skies 82: ‘Baloney,’ said Danny. ‘You can’t tell one weed from another.’.
at baloney!, excl.
[UK] W. Eyster Far from the Customary Skies 324: When I go bitchin’ I hang out a sign.
at bitch, v.
[UK] W. Eyster Far from the Customary Skies 32: Shut the blab.
at blab, n.
[UK] W. Eyster Far from the Customary Skies 252: ‘Jew boy,’ had been one of the nicknames his friends had given him.
at Jew boy, n.
[UK] W. Eyster Far from the Customary Skies 324: You, a date? Wad yuh know. What is she, a five-by-five?
at five by five, n.
[UK] W. Eyster Far from the Customary Skies 39: Oh, fiddle, fiddle, fiddle / While you can, / Before she lurns to sell ’er can.
at can, n.1
[UK] W. Eyster Far from the Customary Skies 260: Pop was sore he hadn’t had his two cents’ worth. Pop liked them young. Ask Mom, she knew.
at two cents’ worth, n.
[UK] W. Eyster Far from the Customary Skies 64: I ain’t gonna let that bastard chew me.
at chew, v.
[UK] W. Eyster Far from the Customary Skies 61: I figure the last night ashore oughta be something worth remembering [...] A real blowout, not a mugging party with a chocolate drop.
at chocolate drop (n.) under chocolate, adj.
[UK] W. Eyster Far from the Customary Skies 111: Oklahoma bet two chips on his pair of tens showing. No sense scarin’ ’em out on a cinch hand.
at cinch, adj.
[UK] W. Eyster Far from the Customary Skies 95: ‘Cut the comedy,’ said Ross.
at cut the comedy (v.) under comedy, n.
[UK] W. Eyster Far from the Customary Skies 140: I’m so tard I couldn’t bat my way through a wet paper bag.
at couldn’t fight their way out of a paper bag under couldn’t..., phr.
[UK] W. Eyster Far from the Customary Skies 56: Kisses get like beans, and hooking tootsies together winds up just plain cruddy.
at cruddy, adj.
[UK] W. Eyster Far from the Customary Skies 127: Swing them along, boys, show them how to dance, give it the juice, make like you’re cutting the mustard.
at cut the mustard, v.
[UK] W. Eyster Far from the Customary Skies 127: Push them around like a dog face, handle them like a bus driver.
at dogface (n.) under dog, n.2
[UK] W. Eyster Far from the Customary Skies 10: Dog me if he ain’t a big one. [Ibid.] 325: This little girl treated me like I was decent and somebody. Aw, dog take it. [Ibid.] 329: Ah don’t want yuh sore at me. Ah’d do most anythin’ for yuh. Dog eat it, yuh know that blame well.
at dog, v.2
[UK] W. Eyster Far from the Customary Skies 112: Oklahoma bet the limit, four chips. Might as well chase ’em out as have ’em drop on me. Think I’ll quit after this hand.
at drop, v.1
[UK] W. Eyster Far from the Customary Skies 11: The Lord sure musta frowned on his ma to make her drop one that size.
at drop, v.5
[UK] W. Eyster Far from the Customary Skies 44: Sore? You thinnies may be as sore as us fatties, but sure ain’t as much sore.
at fatty, n.1
[UK] W. Eyster Far from the Customary Skies 39: He’d fiddled with some ’uns dah-h-ter.
at fiddle, v.1
[UK] W. Eyster Far from the Customary Skies 61: I figure the last night ashore oughta be something worth remembering [...] You know, fizz, a snazzy band, a dame that can dress.
at fizz, n.1
[UK] W. Eyster Far from the Customary Skies 55: So I was in like Flynn.
at in like Flynn, phr.
[UK] W. Eyster Far from the Customary Skies 44: Say, ever hear who discovered fuzz on peaches, her boy friend, he-he-he. That’s a good one, ain’t it?
at fuzz, n.2
[UK] W. Eyster Far from the Customary Skies 17: Aw, up your giggy with a wire brush.
at up your giggy! (excl.) under giggy, n.
[UK] W. Eyster Far from the Customary Skies 305: ‘You’re griped because I beat you out of second class,’ Average retorted.
at griped, adj.
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