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[US] S. Ford Shorty McCabe on the Job 25: Was you ever guilty of wastin’ a kind word, or puttin’ out the helpin’ hand, if you couldn’t see where it might turn a trick for J. Bayard Steele?
at turn a trick, v.1
[US] S. Ford Shorty McCabe on the Job 53: Sort of a cross between Father Time and Santa Claus, he looks like, with his bumper crop of white alfalfa.
at alfalfa, n.
[US] S. Ford Shorty McCabe on the Job 124: ‘Friends,’ says he, sweepin’ off the alfalfa lid with a flourish.
at alfalfa, adj.
[US] S. Ford Shorty McCabe on the Job 4: I might have known such crude stuff wouldn’t get under the hide of a polished article like J. Bayard.
at article, n.
[US] S. Ford Shorty McCabe on the Job 163: I’m the Hot Baby of Sunset Lake; and that ain’t any bellboy’s dream.
at hot baby (n.) under baby, n.
[US] S. Ford Shorty McCabe on the Job 241: But there I was, an old bach, and not much good to anybody anyway.
at bach, n.
[US] S. Ford Shorty McCabe on the Job 286: All the classy points of a heroine in a thirty-five-cent magazine serial, — dark eyes, dark, wavy hair, good color scheme in her cheeks, — the whole bag of tricks.
at whole bag of tricks, the, n.
[US] S. Ford Shorty McCabe on the Job 158: Course it was a batty piece of work, tryin’ to persuade people to let you push money on ’em.
at batty, adj.1
[US] S. Ford Shorty McCabe on the Job 97: Say, I’m a bear for Paris.
at bear for, a under bear, n.
[US] S. Ford Shorty McCabe on the Job 138: ‘If that’s a disguise you’ve got on,’ says I, ‘it’s a bird.’.
at bird, n.1
[US] S. Ford Shorty McCabe on the Job 139: Well, cut out the frills and let’s get down to brass tacks.
at get down to brass tacks (v.) under brass tacks, n.
[US] S. Ford Shorty McCabe on the Job 69: She just gazes at me brassy and shakes her head.
at brassy, adv.
[US] S. Ford Shorty McCabe on the Job 10: Even knowin’ some of the odd streaks of Pyramid Gordon the way I did, this last and final sample had me bug-eyed.
at bug-eyed, adj.
[US] S. Ford Shorty McCabe on the Job 319: He’s only a batty nephew, that they keep under guard. Bughouse, you know.
at bughouse, adj.1
[US] S. Ford Shorty McCabe on the Job 8: He’s squintin’ at me foxy out of them shifty eyes of his, cagy and suspicious.
at cagey, adj.1
[US] S. Ford Shorty McCabe on the Job 18: An ex-pool organizer, who makes a livin’ as capper for a hotel branch of a shady stock-brokin’ firm.
at capper, n.1
[US] S. Ford Shorty McCabe on the Job 85: I might have got real peevish over Mr. Bayne’s suspicions, and told him to go chase himself.
at go chase yourself! (excl.) under chase, v.
[US] S. Ford Shorty McCabe on the Job 80: And now you’re as chesty over her as though you’d been workin’ a miracle. Just beamin’ for joy.
at chesty, adj.
[US] S. Ford Shorty McCabe on the Job 83: I’ve chewed it over some; but I ain’t quite made up my mind.
at chew (it) over (v.) under chew, v.
[US] S. Ford Shorty McCabe on the Job (2007) 11: He comes in smilin’ and chirky.
at chirk, adj.
[US] S. Ford Shorty McCabe on the Job 19: He comes in smilin’ and chirky, though, [and] slaps me chummy on the shoulder.
at chummy, adv.
[US] S. Ford Shorty McCabe on the Job 61: Slug the clubbers! [...] Knock their blocks off! Go to it, old man!
at clubber, n.
[US] S. Ford Shorty McCabe on the Job 277: You’d be about as prominent at the Maxixe in that outfit [...] as a one-legged albino at a coon cakewalk.
at coon, adj.
[US] S. Ford Shorty McCabe on the Job 4: Wanted to euchre her out of the twenty thousand life insurance she got when Benny took the booze count last winter, eh?
at take the count (v.) under count, n.3
[US] S. Ford Shorty McCabe on the Job 318: And off he goes, smilin’ contented and friendly at anyone who happens to look his way. Wouldn’t that crimp you?
at wouldn’t that crimp you? under crimp, v.1
[US] S. Ford Shorty McCabe on the Job 66: Ain’t they the nutty ones, these old cut-ups?
at cut-up, n.1
[US] S. Ford Shorty McCabe on the Job 24: That picture collection is what he’s daffy over.
at daffy, adj.
[US] S. Ford Shorty McCabe on the Job 153: A cheap, messy flat-house to the deuce and gone up Eighth avenue.
at deuce, the, phr.
[US] S. Ford Shorty McCabe on the Job 4: ‘Ah, ditch the sarcasm,’ says I.
at ditch, v.1
[US] S. Ford Shorty McCabe on the Job 4: Whatcher mean you lost your dog?
at lose one’s dog (v.) under dog, n.2
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