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Torchy 120: I’m what you would call a false alarm, Torchy. I’ve been tried out and haven’t made good.at false alarm, n.1
Torchy 120: I’m what you would call a false alarm, Torchy. I’ve been tried out and haven’t made good. Torchy 160: ‘Who is that with you?’ He gets answers from the anvil chorus. ‘That’s the swindler!’ they shouts.at anvil chorus, n.
Torchy 189: It’s a bach joint such as you might dream about [...] guns and swords and such knickknacks on the walls.at bach, n.
Torchy 58: You don’t suppose Marjorie’s got it that bad, do you?at have (got) it bad (v.) under bad, adj.
Torchy 1: Sure, I was carryin’ the banner. But say, I ain’t one of them kids that gets callouses on the hands doin’ it.at carry the banner (v.) under banner, n.
Torchy 17: Ah, brush your belfry! [...] Your mind needs chloride of lime on it.at belfry, n.
Torchy 294: [She] unbelts reckless for the sterling decoration.at unbelt (v.) under belt, n.
Torchy 124: Now ring up one of them bench-warmers and show us the Baron!at bench-warmer (n.) under bench, n.
Torchy 260: He ain’t the final word in this shop, and there’s nobody gets next to the big wheeze oftener durin’ the day than yours truly.at big wheeze (n.) under big, adj.
Torchy 11: Blamed if it wa’n’t straight goods!at blame, v.
Torchy 198: Young man [...] either you are too blickety blinked fresh to keep, or else you’re too keen to lose.at blankety-blank, phr.
Torchy 8: But you ain’t drawn any blank. I’ll shinny on your side, Mr. Pepper, as long’s you’ll let me.at draw a blank (v.) under blank, n.
Torchy 39: Say, Piddie [...] if you don’t think you’ll sleep easy to-night unless you give some one the bounce, why not fire me?at give someone the bounce (v.) under bounce, n.1
Torchy 105: She’s Mrs. Piddie, of course, and she’s a brick. Say, how is it these two-by-fours can pull out such good ones so often?at brick, n.
Torchy 264: Say, you talk about the East Side double deckers; but they’re brownstone fronts compared to some of these corporation shacks across the meadows!.at brownstone front, n.
Torchy 2: Brush by, you three-dollar pikers, and give a salaried man a show!at brush, v.1
Torchy 67: Your bubble’s back in the garage bein’ fitted with a new set of hundred-dollar tires.at bubble, n.2
Torchy 106: Piddie wa’n’t goin’ to be any too sociable by dinner time that night, ’less’n he’d hit up the bucketshop, which the chances was against.at bucket shop, n.
Torchy 237: If this [i.e. a letter of resignation] goes through your career is bugged to the limit.at bug, v.2
Torchy 267: A flyer! Say, every bughouse in the country is at work on one of them.at bughouse, n.
Torchy 177: I misses my swell outfit, the one Benny had built for me to wear at his weddin’.at build, v.
Torchy 147: ‘If you come back here before to-morrow morning [...] I’ll discharge you on the spot.’ Now wouldn’t that bump you?at wouldn’t that bump you? under bump, v.1
Torchy 16: He tries to tell me that this minin’ business is all a bunko game.at bunco game (n.) under bunco, n.
Torchy 169: And you should have heard [...] all about the awful things they did at prep school, how they bunked the masters, and smuggled brandied peaches up to their rooms.at bunk, v.3
Torchy 92: ‘We’re intimate friends of the bride [...] but we’ve forgotten our tickets.’ ‘That’s good, but musty. Butt out, please.’.at butt out, v.
Torchy 92: There was only a few lady butt-ins that had strayed over from the shoppin’ district and smelled out a free show.at butt-in, n.
Torchy 58: Sure, I hadn’t been called to play any Buttinsky part.at buttinski, n.
Torchy 20: I sized up Piddie for a two by four right at the get away; but I’ve been keepin’ him jollied along just for the fun of it.at two by four, n.1
Torchy 109: Most of ’em was little, two-room, fly-by-night firms, with a party ’phone [...] and a mail-order list bought off’m patent medicine concerns.at fly-by-night, adj.
Torchy 163: He don’t dare tie the can to you without reportin’ higher up.at tie the can to (v.) under can, n.1
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