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Travel and Adventure in Alaska 227: Minute specks of gold have been found by some of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s men in the Yukon, but not in quantities to warrant a ‘rush’ to the locality [DA].at rush, n.
Travel and Adventure in Alaska 227: Minute specks of gold have been found by some of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s men in the Yukon, but not in quantities to warrant a ‘rush’ to the locality [DA]. Travel and Adventure in Alaska 309: Ask them how they are, and the answer is pat, ‘Oh, gay and festive,’ with probably the affirmative positive, ‘you bet,’ or may be ‘you bet your boots.’.at you bet! (excl.) under bet, v.
Travel and Adventure in Alaska 310: If the thing has disappointed, it may be, ‘We got down to the “bed rock,” and found it a “bilk”’ – Californian for a humbug.at bilk, n.
Travel and Adventure in Alaska 311: If one or the other ‘weakens,’ or shows signs of ‘caving’ in and leaving, he is said to ‘get up and dust.’.at cave in (v.) under cave, v.
Travel and Adventure in Alaska 311: It is then the business of his opponent to ‘corral’ him in a corner – a term taken from the Spanish for catching and shutting up cattle in an enclosure. This last phrase is used in a variety of ways. A police officer ‘corrals’ an offender, a greedy man at table ‘corrals’ all the delicacies, and a broker ‘corrals’ all the stock of a company, and controls the market, and so on.at corral, v.
Travel and Adventure in Alaska 310: Listen to a quarrel in the streets: one calls the other a ‘regular dead beat!’ at which he, in return, threatens to ‘put a head on him!’.at deadbeat, n.
Travel and Adventure in Alaska 304: San Francisco is full of bar-rooms, ‘saloons,’ and Dutch lager bier cellars (the German family are all called Dutchman in San Francisco, and the same title is given usually to Norwegians, Swedes, and Danes – I have even known a Switzer called a Dutchman!).at Dutchman, n.
Travel and Adventure in Alaska 229: They ‘ken eat crow, tho’ they don’t hanker arter it.’.at eat boiled crow (v.) under eat, v.
Travel and Adventure in Alaska 310: Listen to a quarrel in the streets: one calls the other a ‘regular dead beat!’ at which he, in return, threatens to ‘put a head on him!’.at put a (new) head on someone (v.) under head, n.
Travel and Adventure in Alaska 308: [It] was, in Californian phraselogy, a ‘high-toned and elegant’ affair.at high-tone, adj.
Travel and Adventure in Alaska 309: If a preacher, actor, or writer indulges in an exaggerated manner, they say ‘he piles on the agony’ too much, has a ‘spread-eagle’ or ‘high-falutin’ style about him.at highfalutin, adj.
Travel and Adventure in Alaska 310: Listen to a quarrel in the streets: one calls the other a ‘regular dead beat!’ at which he, in return, threatens to ‘put a head on him!’ whereupon the first sneeringly retorts, ‘up a flume,’ the equivalent of a vulgar cockney’s ‘over the left.’.at over the left (shoulder)!, excl.
Travel and Adventure in Alaska 102: Ranging from Cognac to raw vodka, of a class which can only be described by a Californian term as ‘chain lightning’.at chain lightning (n.) under lightning, n.
Travel and Adventure in Alaska 36: It is very rare to find those who are the better for intercourse with the ‘pale faces’.at paleface, n.
Travel and Adventure in Alaska 310: If one is got up elaborately in a ‘biled shirt’ (i.e., white shirt), a ‘stove-pipe’ (or as we say, ‘chimney-pot’) hat, and a suit of new broadcloth, one is apt to be asked, ‘You’ve rather spread yourself, haven’t you?’.at stove-pipe, n.
Travel and Adventure in Alaska 300: The advertising ‘medium’ walking with his boards a la sandwich.at sandwich, n.
Travel and Adventure in Alaska 309: Many of the common expressions are taken from mining operations and experiences. [...] ‘Show,’ or ‘color,’ from the indications of gold in gravel or sand, are words used in various shapes. ‘I have not a show,’ means I have no chance.at show, n.
Travel and Adventure in Alaska 309: If a preacher, actor, or writer indulges in an exaggerated manner, they say ‘he piles on the agony’ too much, has a ‘spread-eagle’ or ‘high-falutin’ style about him.at spreadeagle, adj.
Travel and Adventure in Alaska 310: A ‘square’ drink is a ‘deep, deep draught,’ and a good ‘square fight’ is an encounter or ‘muss’ where the opponents were in earnest.at square, adj.
Travel and Adventure in Alaska 310: A good substantial repast is known as a ‘square’ meal all over this coast, and the term is applied to many other things.at square, n.
Travel and Adventure in Alaska 310: Listen to a quarrel in the streets: one calls the other a ‘regular dead beat!’ at which he, in return, threatens to ‘put a head on him!’ whereupon the first sneeringly retorts, ‘up a flume,’ the equivalent of a vulgar cockney’s ‘over the left.’.at up a flume! (excl.) under up, prep.
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