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[US] J.T. Farrell ‘A Sunday in April’ in To Whom It May Concern 153: Red and his wife walked home, Red walking proudly [...] his alderman sticking out.
at alderman, n.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘A Teamster’s Payday’ in To Whom It May Concern 60: He had had to keep hitting the ball, with kids coming, expenses mounting.
at hit the ball, v.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘A Sunday in April’ in To Whom It May Concern 150: The boys at the Hall often try, but they don’t get to first base.
at first base, n.
[US] J.T. Farrell To Whom It May Concern 108: The old man said he didn’t want his son to be a football bum.
at bum, n.3
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Street Scene’ in To Whom It May Concern 70: Come on, button up, you!
at button up (v.) under button, v.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Patsy Gilbride’ in To Whom It May Concern 43: There was nothing for me in that town full of ten-per-cent chiselers.
at ten-per-cent, adj.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘A Teamster’s Payday’ in To Whom It May Concern 65: Porky, when we ask you for your two-cents’ worth, put it in the collection box then, and only then.
at two cents’ worth, n.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Clifford and William’ in To Whom It May Concern 165: I’m taking a walk. I got charley horse and I want to get rid of it.
at charley horse, n.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘High-School Star’ in To Whom It May Concern 105: He’d had a good workout. Now, at last, he was in condition and clicking.
at click, v.3
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Street Scene’ in To Whom It May Concern 68: You can see, he’s coked up with wood alcohol.
at coked (up), adj.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Street Scene’ in To Whom It May Concern 72: Another bum cooked on canned heat.
at cooked, adj.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Teamster’s Payday’ in To Whom It May Concern 60: Hadn’t he licked the crap out of three hoodlums?
at crap, the, phr.
[US] J.T. Farrell To Whom It May Concern 15: Oh crap! Why should I bother even to keep this diary? Why anything?
at crap!, excl.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Street Scene’ in To Whom It May Concern 72: Another bum cooked on canned heat. He’s gone coo-coo.
at cuckoo, adj.
[US] J.T. Farrell To Whom It May Concern 25: I wrote two pages of the second chapter of my novel. I re-read it. I fear it is just no dice.
at no dice, adj.
[US] J.T. Farrell To Whom It May Concern 23: He’s a bigshot in pictures and he’s a good egg.
at good egg, n.
[US] J.T. Farrell To Whom It May Concern 21: I don’t like actors. They are all hams.
at ham, n.2
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Patsy Gilbride’ in To Whom It May Concern 18: Why did I get drunk last night? I have a hangover [...] I’ve got a head!
at head, n.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘A Sunday in April’ in To Whom It May Concern 158: The other side hasn’t got the chance of a snowball in hell of whipping us locally.
at not have a snowball’s chance (in hell) under hell, n.
[US] J.T. Farrell To Whom It May Concern 18: The hell with this crap. I’m going out to get drunk. And the hell with my stomach.
at the hell with...! (excl.) under hell, n.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Patsy Gilbride’ in To Whom It May Concern 51: In that picture, Johnny, I made the nation think that Cynthia was hot stuff. I made her seem hot.
at hot stuff, n.2
[US] J.T. Farrell To Whom It May Concern 17: So here I am, forty and 4F, and all jazzed up with an incipient civilian neurosis.
at jazzed (up), adj.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Patsy Gilbride’ in To Whom It May Concern 39: Do you know where I got in this world? [...] But I’m going back up, not in this Jew industry out here, but with this proposition of mine.
at Jew, adj.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘A Sunday in April’ in To Whom It May Concern 159: Nix! Nix on that.
at nix on under nix, v.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Patsy Gilbride’ in To Whom It May Concern 47: ‘You were in the motion pictures, I take it,’ MacIntosh said. ‘I certainly was until the Jews got it into their noodles that I shouldn’t be.’.
at noodle, n.1
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Patsy Gilbride’ To Whom It May Concern 17: We both sold out.
at sell out, v.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘A Teamster’s Payday’ in To Whom It May Concern 63: ‘You’re sure in good with him,’ said Porky Mulroy, a rolypoly red-faced young fellow.
at porky, n.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Autumn Afternoon’ in To Whom It May Concern 141: All you ever do is start fights and make trouble. You’re a worthless roughneck.
at roughneck, n.
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘A Sun. in April’ in To Whom It May Concern 155: Some shine was arrested for cutting up another shine with a razor.
at shine, n.2
[US] J.T. Farrell ‘Omar James’ in To Whom It May Concern 132: Casey asked him if he were seeing a cutie on the side.
at on the side (adv.) under side, n.
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