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Potash and Perlmutter choose

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[US] M. Glass Potash And Perlmutter 2: He knows his cloak and suit business from A to Z, and he’s a first-class A number one feller.
at A-1, adj.
[US] M. Glass Potash and Perlmutter 28: ‘D’ye suppose Grossman would take it?’ ‘Would a cat eat liver?’.
at does a bear shit in the woods? Is the pope (a) Catholic?, phr.
[US] M. Glass Potash And Perlmutter 191: Since when would they mistake a back number like you for an up-to-date feller like Rifkin, Abe?
at back number (n.) under back, adj.2
[US] M. Glass Potash And Perlmutter 145: Why should an up-to-date family like the Tuckmans give their boys such back-number names like Jake or Moe?
at back number (n.) under back, adj.2
[US] M. Glass Potash And Perlmutter 135: It beats all, the queer ideas some people has.
at beat all (v.) under beat, v.
[US] M. Glass Potash And Perlmutter 209: Always you’re beefing about something happening what ain’t going to happen.
at beef, v.1
[US] M. Glass Potash And Perlmutter 197: I don’t want to make no bluffs nor nothing, but believe me, the line of garments what we carry and the line of garments what H. Rifkin carried, there ain’t no comparison.
at bluff, n.1
[US] M. Glass Potash and Perlmutter 76: A feller what can’t pay his own laundry bill, Mawruss, has no trouble getting a thousand dollars because the second vice-president is buffaloed already by the stovepipe hat, a Prince Albert coat and a four-carat stone with a flaw in it.
at buffaloed, adj.
[US] M. Glass Potash And Perlmutter 22: He looked like his best customer had busted up on him.
at bust, v.1
[US] M. Glass Potash and Perlmutter 22: He started right away to call Barney down for going home early the day before.
at call down, v.
[US] M. Glass Potash and Perlmutter 1: This brokering business ain’t such a cinch neither.
at cinch, n.1
[US] M. Glass Potash and Perlmutter 283: Lookyhere, Abe [...] before you would make some cracks about my Minnie’s family, how about your Rosie’s brother, the one what —.
at crack, n.1
[US] M. Glass Potash And Perlmutter 133: For three crimson rounds Pig Flanagan and Tom Evans continued their contest, but even a good bleeder must run dry eventually.
at crimson, adj.
[US] M. Glass Potash and Perlmutter 21: But cussing him out won’t do no good, Mawruss.
at cuss out (v.) under cuss, v.
[US] M. Glass Potash And Perlmutter 291: A dirty dawg like him.
at dirty dog (n.) under dirty, adj.
[US] M. Glass Potash And Perlmutter 4: That feller done him up to the tune of ten thousand dollars.
at do up, v.1
[US] M. Glass Potash And Perlmutter 230: The way drummers figure it out nowadays, Potash, there ain’t no more money in commissions. All the money is in the expense account.
at drummer, n.3
[US] M. Glass Potash and Perlmutter 114: Milton Fiedler had served an arduous apprenticeship before he attained the position of branch manager for Gunst & Baumer in the drygoods district.
at dry goods, n.1
[US] M. Glass Potash and Perlmutter 139: So I boarded a freight over to West Thirtieth Street and fetched up in Walla Walla, Washington.
at fetch up, v.
[US] M. Glass Potash and Perlmutter 17: He’s got us, Barney. Louis Grossman’s got us and no mistake.
at get, v.
[US] M. Glass Potash And Perlmutter 41: ‘G’wan!’ he said.
at go on!, excl.
[US] M. Glass Potash and Perlmutter 314: Klein ain’t such a grouch as most people think he is.
at grouch, n.
[US] M. Glass Potash and Perlmutter 49: I always thought Abe Potash was a pretty hard nut.
at hard nut, n.
[US] M. Glass Potash And Perlmutter 9: ‘Say, looky here, Noblestone,’ he said.
at lookee here!, excl.
[US] M. Glass Potash And Perlmutter 19: I’m willing to be fair, Leon. Of course I ain’t a hog.
at hog, n.
[US] M. Glass Potash And Perlmutter 13: A couple of stickers like them tourists and that directoire model puts us in the hole two thousand dollars.
at in the hole (adj.) under hole, n.1
[US] M. Glass Potash And Perlmutter 89: ‘Holy smokes!’ he cried.
at holy smoke!, excl.
[US] M. Glass Potash And Perlmutter 20: That’s snappy stuff [...] I bet yer they sell like hot cakes.
at like hot cakes under hot, adj.
[US] M. Glass Potash And Perlmutter 2: Everything about ’em is all right, excepting one thing and that’s always a killer.
at killer, n.
[US] M. Glass Potash and Perlmutter 253: When a feller gets together a little money, y’understand, always there is somebody what knocks him, Abe.
at knock, v.
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