Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Quotation search

Date

 to 

Country

Author

Source Title

Source from Bibliography

The Pat Hobby Stories choose

Quotation Text

[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘Pat Hobby, Putative Father’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 86: Aw — bananas.
at bananas, n.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘Boil Some Water’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 48: I don’t know who cooked it up.
at cook up, v.
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘Pat Hobby’s Christmas Wish’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 32: ‘My foot!’ said Harry contemptuously.
at my foot!, excl.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘Pat Hobby, Putative Father’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 81: This man would play the heavy.
at heavy, n.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] F.S. Fitzgerald ‘No Harm Trying’ in Pat Hobby Stories (1967) 125: Miss Starheim has turned out to be a pinhead.
at pinhead, n.
load more results