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The Major in Washington City choose

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[US] R.G. Hampton Major in Wash. City 55: In a pig’s eye they will, but I don’t let on.
at in a pig’s arse! (excl.) under pig’s arse!, excl.
[US] R.G. Hampton Major in Wash. City 56: The cursed old badger is drawin’ a pension too.
at badger, n.1
[US] R.G. Hampton Major in Wash. City 56: There’s that Gresham, who was a blue-bellied Abolitioner.
at blue-bellied, adj.
[US] R.G. Hampton Major in Wash. City 155: He’s as game a man as ever snapt a cap.
at snap a cap (v.) under cap, n.2
[US] R.G. Hampton Major in Wash. City 49: That dod derned colt.
at dod, n.1
[US] R.G. Hampton Major in Wash. City 51: He was inveigled into a game of cards at that wretched doggery called the Burnt Rag.
at doggery, n.1
[US] R.G. Hampton Major in Wash. City 156: I told him he had expressed my views to a gnat’s heel.
at gnat’s eyebrow (n.) under gnat, n.
[US] R.G. Hampton Major in Wash. City 9: If I was home now there’d be h—l a poppin’ in our neighborhood [HDAS].
at hell’s a popping under hell, n.
[US] R.G. Hampton Major in Wash. City 46: The hoggish gang of office seekers will be down on him like coyotes.
at hoggish, adj.
[US] R.G. Hampton Major in Wash. City 38: ‘Herk’ is into me to the extent of $75.
at into, prep.2
[US] R.G. Hampton Major in Wash. City 67: I got nipped at poker agin yesterday evenin’.
at nip, v.1
[US] R.G. Hampton Major in Wash. City 14: Jew merchants that skin us out of about all we have.
at skin, v.1
[US] R.G. Hampton Major in Wash. City 21: Their hired foreign help began to squawk.
at squawk, v.
[US] R.G. Hampton Major in Wash. City 17: The gabble of that old yaller-backed Yankee riled me.
at yellow back (n.) under yellow, adj.
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