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Abe and Mawruss choose

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[US] M. Glass Abe and Mawruss 100: Nowadays, if a feller wants to make a success he must got to wear good clothes and look like a mensch, y’understand?
at mensch, n.
[US] M. Glass Abe And Mawruss 260: If you think we are going to work to hire a designer which he is getting fired by every John, Dick and Harry, you got another think coming.
at Tom, Dick and Harry, n.
[US] M. Glass Abe And Mawruss 205: Come along quiet [...] or I’ll knock yer block awff.
at knock someone’s block off (v.) under block, n.1
[US] M. Glass Abe And Mawruss 131: ‘Schnorrer! Cripple! With my money yet!’ and ‘Crust that feller got it!’.
at crust, n.2
[US] M. Glass Abe and Mawruss 143: After all, he was a dead one, he reflected as he stumbled along the sidewalk.
at dead one, n.
[US] M. Glass Abe and Mawruss 16: I don’t want no ganef working round my place.
at gonnof, n.
[US] M. Glass Abe and Mawruss 194: ‘That other crazy Indian over there,’ Morris continued, pointing to the professor.
at Indian, n.
[US] M. Glass Abe And Mawruss 144: ‘By jinks!’ he said, ‘I’ll do it.’.
at by jinks! (excl.) under jinks, n.
[US] M. Glass Abe and Mawruss 174: When a feller puts three thousand dollars into a fiddle, y’understand, he could kiss himself good-bye with his business.
at kiss goodbye (v.) under kiss, v.
[US] M. Glass Abe And Mawruss 102: If nobody would tell that feller Koblin what a lowlife bum he got it for a son, Mawruss [...] I will.
at lowlife, adj.
[US] M. Glass Abe and Mawruss 175: Pretty soon he is buying more and more goods till he gets to be a big macher like Felix Geigermann.
at macher, n.
[US] M. Glass Abe and Mawruss 87: What a beautiful boy that was, Mr. Feldman – a regular picture!
at picture, n.
[US] M. Glass Abe And Mawruss 108: ‘Say, Pop,’ Sydney began, ‘how about you for twenty till Saturday night?’.
at pop, n.3
[US] M. Glass Abe and Mawruss 52: ‘You don’t say so!’ Morris cried.
at you don’t say under say, v.
[US] M. Glass Abe and Mawruss 2: ‘A philantropist ain’t a schmooser, Mawruss.’ ‘I know he ain’t, Abe; but just the same Max Linkheimer is a feller which he got a whole lot too much to say for himself.’.
at schmoozer (n.) under schmooze, v.
[US] M. Glass Abe and Mawruss 169: What the devil are you trying to sell a Schnorrer like that a good fiddle?
at schnorrer, n.
[US] M. Glass Abe and Mawruss 174: ‘I am telling you it was a genu-ine Amati.’ ‘All right, Abe [...] you told me that schon twenty times already.’.
at schon, n.
[US] M. Glass Abe and Mawruss 274: Guy-seppy Scratch-oly [...] That’s a fine name for a banker, Abe.
at scratch, n.3
[US] M. Glass Abe And Mawruss 272: He don’t smoke and he don’t shikker.
at shicker, v.
[US] M. Glass Abe and Mawruss 169: Skin a poor feller like Nathan, which he got a wife and child to support?
at skin, v.1
[US] M. Glass Abe And Mawruss 107: Of course, Max [...] it ain’t no skin off my nose, y’understand.
at no skin off one’s nose under skin, n.1
[US] M. Glass Abe and Mawruss 18: I ain’t charitable, Abe. Gott soll huten! I leave that to suckers like Max Linkheimer.
at sucker, n.1
[US] M. Glass Abe And Mawruss 38: What could you expect from a couple of tough propositions like that?
at tough, adj.
[US] M. Glass Abe and Mawruss 166: My tzuris if he does, Mawruss.
at tsuris, n.
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