1955 R. Graziano Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) 275: He gives me this long song and dance.at give someone a song and dance (v.) under song and dance, n.1
1955 R. Graziano Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) 168: ‘Blow it out your ass, Prude,’ I said.at blow it out your ass!, excl.
1955 R. Graziano Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) 51: I’m busting my balls to be a wise guy.at break one’s balls (v.) under balls, n.
1955 R. Graziano Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) 86: You going to bust his balls, huh Rocky?at break someone’s balls (v.) under balls, n.
1955 R. Graziano Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) 265: I was unemployed. I was on the beach, washed up.at on the beach under beach, n.
1955 R. Graziano Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) 207: He got such a boot out of being a big-dog fight manager.at big dog, n.
1955 R. Graziano Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) 215: I decided to make fighting my career [...] stick with the ring and go for the big guys and the big money.at big, adj.
1955 R. Graziano Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) 145: I am on top of the heap in the big top. I was a man now and nobody could deny it.at big top (n.) under big, adj.
1955 R. Graziano Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) 264: This big guy from the Capone mob, that wheel from the Milwaukee mob.at big guy (n.) under big, adj.
1955 R. Graziano Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) 264: This big guy from the Capone mob, that wheel from the Milwaukee mob.at big wheel (n.) under big, adj.
1955 R. Graziano Somebody Up There Likes Me 209: A few more fights and a few more bucks. [Ibid.] 270: We’re going to make a lot of bucks yet.at buck, n.3
1955 R. Graziano Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) 153: He is only a buck-ass private.at buck-assed (adj.) under buck, n.1
1955 R. Graziano Somebody Up There Likes Me 237: It’s about time I got a come-on for a fight in this joint.at come-on, n.
1955 R. Graziano Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) 280: My manager might show up with some guy he’s cooking a movie deal with.at cook, v.1
1955 R. Graziano Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) 235: We cut up almost $350,000, it turned out.at cut up, v.2
1955 R. Graziano Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) 102: Every time I was up for a new cellmate they [...] give me a real dilly.at dilly, n.2
1955 R. Graziano Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) 117: ‘What does Romolo mean, “dogging” it?’ says Josefina [...] ‘You ain’t going to dog it, are you Rocky?’ says Benjy.at dog it, v.1
1955 R. Graziano Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) 222: Hey, kid, there’s ten grand in it for you if you take a dump tomorrow night.at dump, v.
1955 R. Graziano Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) 105: The Farms was what the East Side guys called the city reform school. [Ibid.] 112: I got paroled out of the Farms.at Farms, the, n.
1955 R. Graziano Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) 272: The last round I prayed and punched and got strength I don’t know where from [...] It was enough to fold up Charley Fusari.at fold up, v.
1955 R. Graziano Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) 223: Why, you bum [...] all of them times you come over to my and Lulu’s camp and freeload off us.at freeload, v.
1955 R. Graziano Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) 250: They are full of crap.at full of crap under full of..., phr.
1955 R. Graziano Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) 187: Guys, who just plain liked me and didn’t [...] call me Guinea bastard.at guinea, adj.
1955 R. Graziano Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) 26: They call me Houdini [...] My old man [...] said he never seen no kid disappear so fast when there’s work or trouble around.at Houdini, n.
1955 R. Graziano Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) 242: What you guys all jerking off about?at jerk off, v.
1955 R. Graziano Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) 53: Jews from Jew Town.at Jew town (n.) under Jew, adj.
1955 R. Graziano Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) 224: Hustle a horseshoe game between me and some local yokel.at local yokel, n.
1955 R. Graziano Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) 210: We don’t like the way you been lone-wolfing, Bob.at lone wolf, v.