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Good Night, Sweet Prince choose

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[US] G. Fowler Good Night, Sweet Prince 259: [from John Barrymore’s diary 1926] It had pretty nearly put me on the blink.
at on the blink (adj.) under blink, n.1
[US] G. Fowler Good Night, Sweet Prince 130: The incendiary curse of Ashton Stevens [...] was regarded by Editor Michelson as a mere journalistic blow-up.
at blow-up, n.1
[US] G. Fowler Good Night, Sweet Prince 105: Where’s the two bones come in?
at bone, n.4
[US] G. Fowler Good Night, Sweet Prince 131: ‘Won’t Collier advance it to you?’ Stevens asked. ‘Not one red cent,’ Jack replied.
at red cent, n.
[US] G. Fowler Good Night, Sweet Prince 23: I am now in the chips.
at in the chips under chip, n.2
[US] G. Fowler Good Night, Sweet Prince 401: Barrymore made a radio broadcast in Omaha on this May 1, and in it offended many corn-huskers.
at corn-husker (n.) under corn, n.1
[US] G. Fowler Good Night, Sweet Prince 104: You are a deadbeat and a welsher.
at deadbeat, n.
[US] G. Fowler Good Night, Sweet Prince 261: Hot Dog! But that was a glass of beer!
at hot dog!, excl.
[US] G. Fowler Good Night, Sweet Prince 131: I played footsie with her during Don José’s first seduction by Carmen.
at play footsie(s) (v.) under footsie-footsie, n.
[US] G. Fowler Good Night, Sweet Prince 405: I had a yen for a high yaller girl I’d seen on that floor.
at high-yellow, adj.
[US] G. Fowler Good Night, Sweet Prince 139: Let’s find some hole-in-the-wall that serves liquid dynamite.
at hole in the wall, n.
[US] G. Fowler Good Night, Sweet Prince 105: A Hop it, or I’ll really trounce you.
at hop it!, excl.
[US] G. Fowler Good Night, Sweet Prince 101: He was waist-deep in small Southern nose-pickers slugging him for his autograph.
at nose picker (n.) under nose, n.
[US] G. Fowler Good Night, Sweet Prince 108: Jerry the Lug, a Tenderloin hack driver.
at tenderloin, n.
[US] G. Fowler Good Night, Sweet Prince 398: I told Jack that I would see him in hell before I touched the dramatic whimsey with a ten-foot pole.
at wouldn’t touch it with a (barge-)pole under touch, v.1
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