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W.C. Fields by Himself choose

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[US] in W.C. Fields By Himself (1974) 28: So even if you ain’t the pig’s scream that You say You are, You had a shining example to copy from.
at cat’s meow, n.
[US] in W.C. Fields By Himself (1974) 23: I am waiting anxiously to get a photo of him, he must be a pippin.
at pippin, n.
[US] in W.C. Fields By Himself (1974) 24: A certain eccentric [...] got an awful slosh in the puss.
at slosh, n.2
[US] in W.C. Fields By Himself (1974) 191: Where shall I address you [in] L.A?
at L.A., n.
[US] in W.C. Fields By Himself (1974) 46: Passing circulars [...] I went to a pond where a number of young people were skating and threw an armful of dodgers on the ice.
at dodger, n.4
[US] in W.C. Fields By Himself (1974) 117: What an awful egg-nog he is....You say the word and I’ll throw him off the back platform [HDAS].
at eggnog (n.) under egg, n.1
[US] in W.C. Fields By Himself (1974) 330: Fields [...] doesn’t ‘hoke’.
at hoke, v.
[US] in W.C. Fields By Himself (1974) 446: I hope to Christ the next cold I get knocks me off and then you will know what real hardship is.
at to Christ under Christ, n.
[US] in W.C. Fields By Himself (1974) 446: I hope to Christ the next cold I get knocks me off and then you will know what real hardship is.
at knock off, v.
[US] in W.C. Fields By Himself (1974) 154: What was known as a ‘belly’ laugh the first few nights became barely a titter.
at belly laugh (n.) under belly, n.
[US] in W.C. Fields By Himself (1974) 155: The least I can do is to toast to your health and happyness, so time out, old pal – while I bend my elbow to you.
at bend one’s elbow (v.) under bend, v.1
[US] in W.C. Fields By Himself (1974) 152: The cranker informed me a few months ago if I didn’t lay off the vile stuff I had no more chance.
at cranker, n.1
[US] in W.C. Fields By Himself (1974) 149: I am not at liberty to disclose if Miss Dooley did or did not drop a noggin or two down the hatch.
at hatch, n.2
[US] P. Lecky By Himself 334: The constant employment of a dog-stiffener had accounted for eighty odd dingoes so far.
at dog-stiffener (n.) under dog, n.2
[US] in W.C. Fields By Himself (1974) 449: I was not hitting on all four cylinders at the time.
at hit on all cylinders (v.) under hit, v.
[US] in W.C. Fields By Himself (1974) 311: A thief had broken into my tent and tried to roll me for my poke.
at poke, n.2
[US] in W.C. Fields By Himself (1974) 262: whipsnade: What tails? phineas: Your evening clothes.
at tails, n.
[US] in W.C. Fields By Himself (1974) 225: In his familiar blowhard manner, Mr. Whipsnade sets to work.
at blowhard, adj.
[US] in W.C. Fields By Himself (1974) 330: When this clam-bake folds up in the Fall, I’m going out to Leadville and open a honky-tonk.
at clambake, n.
[US] in W.C. Fields By Himself (1974) 333: You go and get yourself diggin’s up the street.
at diggings, n.
[US] in W.C. Fields By Himself (1974) 330: How could anyone hurt themselves falling off a trapeze? Ewscray.
at ewscray, v.
[US] in W.C. Fields By Himself (1974) 327: I’ll be the laughing stock of every gink in the town from now on – you have made me a gilly.
at gilly, n.
[US] in W.C. Fields By Himself (1974) 336: Give me a shot of that panther.
at panther piss, n.
[US] in W.C. Fields By Himself (1974) 336: There’s a tough paloma comes in by the name of Chicago Molly.
at polone, n.
[US] in W.C. Fields By Himself (1974) 340: I’m an Epicurean, gourmet and sybarite when it comes to salt-horse and beans.
at salt horse (n.) under salt, n.3
[US] in W.C. Fields By Himself (1974) 166: My dinner companion was ‘stymied’.
at stymied, adj.
[US] in W.C. Fields By Himself (1974) 373: There are no belly-laughs in it.
at belly laugh (n.) under belly, n.
[US] in W.C. Fields By Himself (1974) 370: This is the last suggestion, bleat, will document and codicil I shall make.
at bleat, n.
[US] in W.C. Fields By Himself (1974) 371: This is the God-damndest excuse I have ever heard for cutting a gag out of a picture.
at god-damned, adj.
[US] in W.C. Fields By Himself (1974) 173: After doing an el floppo as a writer, you are back in dear old Kansas City telling what is wrong with pictures.
at el foldo, n.
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