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[US] A. Garcia Tough Trip Through Paradise (1977) 244: There was not a robe or fur pelt in the whole damn wagonload that would grade A-No.1 prime.
at A-1, adj.
[US] A. Garcia Tough Trip Through Paradise (1977) 99: Beaver Tom was drunk as a fiddler’s bitch again.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[US] A. Garcia Tough Trip Through Paradise (1977) 20: There is nothing that will warm the cockles of an Indian’s heart [...] like a couple of shots of good old red-eye whiskey under his belt.
at under one’s belt under belt, n.
[US] A. Garcia Tough Trip Through Paradise (1977) 66: Beaver Tom had nothing to do but look wise and hold his Betsy Ann, a buffalo gun. [Ibid.] 105: Betsy Jane went off with a roar.
at betsy, n.
[US] A. Garcia Tough Trip Through Paradise (1977) 66: She was on to him and knew he was easy meat and that he was the big Medicine.
at big medicine (n.) under big, adj.
[US] A. Garcia Tough Trip Through Paradise (1977) 245: What did he take me for, a damn bilk.
at bilk, n.
[US] A. Garcia Tough Trip Through Paradise (1977) 56: The only delicacy we had was some black-strap molasses.
at black strap (n.) under black, adj.
[US] A. Garcia Tough Trip Through Paradise (1977) 75: I [...] proudly entered the arena of pugilism by landing several underhand swings in his bread basket.
at breadbasket (n.) under bread, n.1
[US] A. Garcia Tough Trip Through Paradise (1977) 68: Even Beaver Tom, the squaw Beau Brummel, was saying we had to get away from this bunch of brunettes.
at brunette, n.
[US] A. Garcia Tough Trip Through Paradise (1977) 40: Here you are letting this sidewinder buffalo you out of the chance to make a lot of good old Queen Vic’s money.
at buffalo, v.
[US] A. Garcia Tough Trip Through Paradise (1977) 67: They were bumming us for anything we had.
at bum, v.3
[US] A. Garcia Tough Trip Through Paradise (1977) 75: I started off for the bunch of bucks.
at bunch, n.1
[US] A. Garcia Tough Trip Through Paradise (1977) 66: That old cockeyed buzzard had forgotten that he just missed death by a few inches.
at buzzard, n.
[US] A. Garcia Tough Trip Through Paradise (1977) 101: So he started with his pants down, but his comeback would come when he got hold of Betsy Ann, and then he would perforate me with lead.
at catch someone with their pants down (v.) under catch, v.1
[US] A. Garcia Tough Trip Through Paradise (1977) 138: [He] now knew all the cards in the squaws’ cold deck.
at cold deck, n.
[US] A. Garcia Tough Trip Through Paradise (1977) 65: A butcher’s knife is not what it is cracked up to be at haircutting.
at not all it’s cracked up to be under crack up, v.1
[US] A. Garcia Tough Trip Through Paradise (1977) 53: Then the law got a man who had the guts to go and get the drop on Big Nose George.
at get the drop(s) (on) (v.) under drop, n.1
[US] A. Garcia Tough Trip Through Paradise (1977) 103: The Beaver Tom Trading and Trapping Company Limited was sure to God a sad-looking dump.
at dump, n.3
[US] A. Garcia Tough Trip Through Paradise (1977) 66: She was on to him and knew he was easy meat.
at easy meat (n.) under easy, adj.
[US] A. Garcia Tough Trip Through Paradise (1977) 172: Maybe next day he is again on easy street.
at easy street, n.
[US] A. Garcia Tough Trip Through Paradise (1977) 234: Mexican José [...] with his forty-five leveled at old Gabriel.
at forty-five, n.
[US] A. Garcia Tough Trip Through Paradise (1977) 66: If anything happened, Beaver Tom was going to get it in the neck first.
at get it in the neck, v.
[US] A. Garcia Tough Trip Through Paradise (1977) 105: I [...] hated the job of going after the horses. It was a ground-hog case.
at groundhog case (n.) under ground-hog, n.2
[US] A. Garcia Tough Trip Through Paradise (1977) 239: If them squaw men had brought enough whiskey [...] for all the other Injuns in camp to get drunk on, there would sure have been hell a popping.
at hell’s a popping under hell, n.
[US] A. Garcia Tough Trip Through Paradise (1977) 45: I told him he could go plumb to hell.
at go to hell! (excl.) under hell, n.
[US] A. Garcia Tough Trip Through Paradise (1977) 66: Highly educated highbrows of the plains like Beaver Tom and I called them lady Injuns.
at highbrow, n.
[US] A. Garcia Tough Trip Through Paradise (1977) 268: I was leaving behind this hoodoo gulch forever casting glances behind me, as though the devil was still after me.
at hoodoo, adj.
[US] A. Garcia Tough Trip Through Paradise (1977) 77: Why don’t you hook up to her yourself, if you are so stuck on her?
at hook up (with), v.
[US] A. Garcia Tough Trip Through Paradise (1977) 53: Their scheme was to get a hooker, or harlot, of the town to go and visit.
at hooker, n.3
[US] A. Garcia Tough Trip Through Paradise (1977) 34: Reynolds, La Brie and Shinnick are bad numbers. I don’t trust them.
at number, n.
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