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[US] Ames Dly Trib. (IO) 21 Nov. 4/3: When mediation doesn’t work, youth workers try to set up what the gangs call a ‘fair one.’ In a fair one each gang picks a representative to tangle with each other and uphold the honor of all.
at fair one (n.) under fair, adj.
[US] Ames (IA) Daily Trib. 11 Dec. 1/1: Your waitress is not talking to her bookie when she yells ‘1000 on a plate.’ Those are your baked beans, of course.
at thousand-on-a-plate, n.
[US] Ames (IA) Daily Trib. 11 Dec. 1/1: Don’t think the waitress is sermonizing if she yells ‘Adam and Eve on a raft.’ You guessed it. Those are poached eggs.
at Adam and Eve, n.1
[US] Ames (IA) Daily Trib. 11 Dec. 1/1: Or if you [...] tell the waitress your order, and she yells ‘Manhole covers,’ don’t get up and leave. She’s only sending in your order of hot-cakes.
at manhole cover, n.2
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