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[US] Carroll Free Press (Carrolton, OH) 1 Sept. 2/4: He ’can give them jesse to the hilt’ — [...] which will make certain nominees look seven ways for Sunday.
at look seven ways for Sunday (v.) under look, v.
[US] Carroll Free Press (Carrolton, OH) 21 Dec. 1/5: Many young men, who would have otherwise spent their twenty-five years in the bull’s wool of a private, are now basking in the scarlet commissioned coats of British officers.
at bull’s wool, n.1
[US] Carroll Free Press (Carrolton, OH) 22 Nov. 3/3: O Sam’s a funny boy, he goes / Bobbing around, around, around, / Loves his friends and lams his toes, / As he goes bobbing around .
at bob around (v.) under bob, v.3
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