1940 F.S. Fitzgerald ‘A Patriotic Short’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 130: He’s got all the Spanish officers with ants in their pants.at ants in one’s pants under ants, n.
1940 F.S. Fitzgerald ‘Teamed with Genius’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 51: We’ve had a Russian Ballet picture kicking around for a year.at kick around, v.
1940 F.S. Fitzgerald ‘Pat Hobby, Putative Father’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 86: Aw — bananas.at bananas, n.
1940 F.S. Fitzgerald ‘Teamed with Genius’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 73: Now he’s on a big bat.at on a bat under bat, n.3
1940 F.S. Fitzgerald ‘Teamed with Genius’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 69: They’re using a dozen beards on Sam Jones’ set.at beard, n.
1940 F.S. Fitzgerald ‘No Harm Trying’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 123: The Big Boys would have some way of killing it.at big boy, n.
1940 F.S. Fitzgerald ‘Teamed with Genius’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1962) 82: I got some business in this next take. You want me to blow up on it?at blow up, v.1
1940 F.S. Fitzgerald ‘Pat Hobby Does His Bit’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 103: Don’t finish him till the Brain comes.at brain, n.1
1940 F.S. Fitzgerald ‘Pat Hobby’s Christmas Wish’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 26: If I bucked him he wouldn’t extend me.at buck, v.2
1940 F.S. Fitzgerald ‘Boil Some Water’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 48: I don’t know who cooked it up.at cook up, v.
1940 F.S. Fitzgerald ‘Pat Hobby’s Christmas Wish’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 30: We killed Taylor. We should have cracked down on him sooner.at crack down (v.) under crack, v.1
1940 F.S. Fitzgerald ‘Teamed with Genius’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 72: This one has got me down.at get someone down (v.) under down, adv.1
1940 F.S. Fitzgerald ‘Pat Hobby’s Christmas Wish’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 32: ‘My foot!’ said Harry contemptuously.at my foot!, excl.
1940 F.S. Fitzgerald ‘The Homes of the Stars’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 96: The arrival of the police, the frisking of Mr and Mrs Robinson.at frisk, v.2
1940 F.S. Fitzgerald ‘Boil Some Water’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 44: It’s got the old guts if you know what I mean.at gut, n.
1940 F.S. Fitzgerald ‘No Harm Trying’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 119: They weren’t trying to hang anything on him.at hang something on (v.) under hang, v.2
1940 F.S. Fitzgerald ‘Pat Hobby’s Secret’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 75: Sit down and wha’ll you have.at what will you have?, phr.
1940 F.S. Fitzgerald ‘Pat Hobby, Putative Father’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 81: This man would play the heavy.at heavy, n.
1940 F.S. Fitzgerald ‘Teamed with Genius’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 69: One of them went to jail in a homo raid.at homo, adj.
1940 F.S. Fitzgerald ‘No Harm Trying’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 125: I’ve trusted drunks up to a point, but I’ll be goddam if I trust a hophead.at hophead, n.1
1940 F.S. Fitzgerald ‘Pat Hobby’s Christmas Wish’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 26: He had been hired to script an old-fashioned horse opera.at horse opera (n.) under horse, n.
1940 F.S. Fitzgerald ‘A Patriotic Short’ Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 132: The girl of the year, the It girl, the Oomph girl, the Glamour Girl.at it girl (n.) under it, n.1
1940 F.S. Fitzgerald ‘Pat Hobby Does His Bit’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 98: To a sordidly commercial glance the jalopy would not have seemed worth saving.at jalopy, n.
1940 F.S. Fitzgerald ‘A Man in the Way’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 37: I hate to give an idea without money on the line.at on the line, phr.
1940 F.S. Fitzgerald ‘Teamed with Genius’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 70: He was nothing less than the real McCoy.at real McCoy, the, n.
1940 F.S. Fitzgerald ‘Teamed with Genius’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 69: I’d like to see if Sam could tell it was a phony muff.at muff, n.1
1940 F.S. Fitzgerald ‘Pat Hobby’s Christmas Wish’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 29: The boss is on my neck [...] I’ve got to have a finished script Thursday.at on someone’s neck under neck, n.
1940 F.S. Fitzgerald ‘Pat Hobby’s Christmas Wish’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 34: Nope [...] I won’t make you a producer.at nope!, excl.
1940 F.S. Fitzgerald ‘Teamed with Genius’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 73: It’s enough to drive you nuts.at drive someone nuts (v.) under nuts, adj.
1940 F.S. Fitzgerald ‘No Harm Trying’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 125: Miss Starheim has turned out to be a pinhead.at pinhead, n.