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At The Actors’ Boarding House choose

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[US] H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 164: Here he was, drunk as a fool.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[US] H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 355: You, who used to be aces with all the chorus girls, too!
at aces, adj.
[US] H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 81: When I was across, I heard her sing.
at across, n.
[US] H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 271: So yer agin the dope [...] I used to smoke onct in a while, but I didn’t never git no habit.
at against, prep.
[US] H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 25: The simple words sent Emma up in the air, if I may use so common an expression.
at up in the air (adj.) under air, n.
[US] H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 227: I guess he was all in.
at all in, adj.
[US] H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 249: He was all out and sleeping on top of the barrels.
at all out, adj.
[US] H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 36: He was tired of being an ‘also-ran’ in vaudeville.
at also-ran, n.
[US] H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 273: The angel fussed around in stocks, owned a stable of fancy road horses and didn’t care what he did with his money.
at angel, n.
[US] H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 12: The little, pretty ones fur me – them big battleaxes has had their day.
at battle-axe, n.1
[US] H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 58: Pass the axle-grease!
at axle grease, n.
[US] H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 61: ‘How’s that, babe?’ he asked coolly.
at babe, n.
[US] H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 30: Swell fift’ Avenoo babies, they is.
at baby, n.
[US] H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 277: A reg’lar bad ’un!
at bad ’un (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 89: You got ’em bad, woman. [Ibid.] 360: He’s got it bad. The Willies, I guess.
at have (got) it bad (v.) under bad, adj.
[US] H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 81: She’s an old bat, ain’t she?
at old bat (n.) under bat, n.1
[US] H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 367: What in Billy-be-dam ails you?
at Billy-be-damned, n.
[US] H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 108: I told ’em to beat it.
at beat it, v.
[US] H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 353: Clancy had stolen the coppers’s ‘girl,’ [...] but even though she were not of the cast of Vere de Vere, the copper didn’t want a crook beating him out.
at beat (someone) out of (v.) under beat, v.
[US] H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 316: Is he still beefin’?
at beef, v.1
[US] H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 59: He puts up a beef about the elbows shakin’ him down ag’in an’ cleanin’ him out.
at beef, n.2
[US] H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 28: Dear old Noo York! Well, we’re gettin’ back with bells on!
at with bells on under bell, n.1
[US] H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 366: Tonopah [...] had acquired a fair amount of the demon rum under his belt.
at under one’s belt under belt, n.
[US] H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 251: I may have a few balls under my belt, y’know [...] but I’m allus a gen’leman, see?
at under one’s belt under belt, n.
[US] H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 2456: I’ve heard her say forty times she’d belt him in the jaw if he came ’round.
at belt, v.
[US] H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 148: ‘That’s the life, you bet,’ he sighed.
at you bet! (excl.) under bet, v.
[US] H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 255: Who’s your friend, the big noise?
at big noise (n.) under big, adj.
[US] H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 26: Of course it goes big. [Ibid.] 82: Dotty’s act went big.
at go big (v.) under big, adv.
[US] H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 31: Feeling in his pocket for the short billy.
at billy, n.4
[US] H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 68: Other early birds were waiting for the pianist.
at early bird, n.1
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