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[US] J.N. Hall High Adventure 58: Now don’t try to pull any big league stuff.
at big-league, adj.
[US] J.N. Hall High Adventure 27: His French translation of some of our breezy Americanisms.
at breezy, adj.1
[US] J.N. Hall High Adventure 34: Tell him I know it was my fault. Tell him I ‘took a Steve Brody’.
at do a Brodie (v.) under brodie, n.1
[US] J.N. Hall High Adventure 97: I can swing in the rods of a box car with the train going hell bent for election.
at hellbent for election (adv.) under hellbent, adj.
[US] J.N. Hall High Adventure 11: A chap in leathers, who came down the drive. [Ibid.] 16: At the camp most of the men wear leathers.
at leathers, n.
[US] J.N. Hall High Adventure 151: If you are going to be a military pilot, for the love of Pete and Alf be one!
at for the love of Mike! (excl.) under love, n.
[US] J.N. Hall High Adventure 59: ‘[P]an-caking is n’t too bad. Not in a Blériot. Just like falling through a shingle roof. Can’t hurt yourself much’.
at pancake, v.
[US] J.N. Hall High Adventure 92: You poor, simple prune!
at prune, n.
[US] J.N. Hall High Adventure 141: We both came in for our share of ragging.
at ragging, n.
[US] J.N. Hall High Adventure 58: ‘You’ll find it pretty rotten when you go over the woods. The air currents there are something scandalous!’.
at scandalous, adj.
[US] J.N. Hall High Adventure 57: If you do spill, make it a good one. There hasn’t been a decent smash-up to-day.
at spill, v.
[US] J.N. Hall High Adventure 115: That’s spreading it, Dunham.
at spread it thick (v.) under spread, v.
[US] J.N. Hall High Adventure 145: On the umteenth day of June, the escadrilles of Groupe de Combat Blank [that’s ours] will coöperate in an attack on the German observation balloons .
at umpteenth (adj.) under umpteen, adj.
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