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[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘The Jelly Bean’ in Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald V (1963) 218: I don’t guess Nancy cared a darn about him.
at not give a damn, v.
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘The Jelly Bean’ in Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald V (1963) 212: Little Ada, this time we’re going South.
at Ada from Decatur, n.
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘May Day’ Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald V (1963) 146: ‘I’m all in,’ he continued, his voice trembling.
at all in, adj.
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘The Jelly Bean’ in Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald V (1963) 205: She’s a wild baby.
at baby, n.
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘The Jelly Bean’ in Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald V (1963) 198: ‘Jelly-bean’ is the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life conjugating the verb to idle in the first person singular — I am idling, I have idled, I will idle.
at jelly bean, n.
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘May Day’ in Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald V (1963) 170: He’d better beat it off.
at beat it, v.
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘The Jelly Bean’ in Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald V (1963) 212: My four bits is in the ring.
at four bits (n.) under bit, n.1
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘May Day’ in Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald V (1963) 157: We want to get some booze, and they won’t sell us none.
at booze, n.
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘The Ice Palace’ in Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald V (1963) 135: She caught snatches of conversation [...] ‘this Canuck who built it’.
at Canuck, n.
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘Bernice Bobs Her Hair’ in Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald V (1963) 89: I hear they’ve been mooning a round for years without a red penny.
at red cent, n.
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘The Jelly Bean’ in Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald V (1963) 205: Such potent nectar as ‘good old corn’ needed some disguise beyond selzer.
at corn, n.1
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘Bernice Bobs Her Hair’ in Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald V (1963) 86: Warren [...] had long been ‘crazy about her.’.
at crazy for (adj.) under crazy, adj.
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘May Day’ in Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald V (1963) 144: ‘What’s the matter?’ ‘Every God damn thing in the world.’.
at god-damn, adj.
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘The Jelly Bean’ in Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald V (1963) 208: The deuce. He promised me a highball.
at deuce, the, phr.
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘May Day’ in Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald V (1963) 148: My income isn’t so big but that a slice like that won’t play the deuce with it.
at play the deuce (with) (v.) under deuce, the, phr.
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘May Day’ in Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald V (1963) 159: Doggone! Here’s some liquor I’ll say!
at doggone!, excl.
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘The Jelly Bean’ in Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald V (1963) 205: She’s all dolled up to a fare-you-well to-night.
at dolled up, adj.
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘The Ice Palace’ in Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald V (1963) 131: They passed a little girl done up in grey wool.
at done up, adj.2
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘Bernice Bobs Her Hair’ in Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald V (1963) 86: He had to admit that Cousin Bernice was sorta dopeless.
at dopeless, adj.
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘Bernice Bobs Her Hair’ in Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald V (1963) 91: No girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor.
at lame-duck, adj.
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘The Jelly Bean’ in Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald V (1963) 205: I’ve got something that’ll put an edge on the evening.
at edge, n.1
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘The Jelly Bean’ in Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald V (1963) 211: I haven’t seen his silly little flivver in two weeks.
at flivver, n.
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘May Day’ in Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald V (1963) 146: Tell her where she can go.
at tell someone where to get off (v.) under get off, v.3
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘The Jelly Bean’ in Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald V (1963) 199: He enlisted as a gob and polished brass in the Charleston Navy-yard.
at gob, n.2
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘May Day’ in Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald V (1963) 144: I’ve made a hell of a mess of everything.
at hell of a, a under hell, n.
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘May Day’ in Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald V (1963) 181: People [...] Whole jam of them.
at jam, n.1
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘The Jelly Bean’ in Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald V (1963) 214: Marylyn and Joe followed, singing a drowsy song, about a Jazz baby.
at jazz baby (n.) under jazz, n.
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘May Day’ in Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald V (1963) 153: He’s a waiter in a hash joint.
at joint, n.
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘Bernice Bobs Her Hair’ in Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald V (1963) 87: You’re an angel, and I’m obliged loads.
at loads, adv.
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘The Jelly Bean’ in Bodley Head Scott Fitzgerald V (1963) 205: Hello, old boy, how you making out?
at make out, v.
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