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[US] Kansas City Sun (MO) 30 Oct. 4/4: We do not fatten frogs for snakes.
at fatten frogs for snakes (v.) under snake, n.1
[US] Kansas City Sun (MO) 17 Feb. 3/5: [headline] Europe ‘Sticks to Its Knitting’.
at stick to one’s knitting (v.) under stick to, v.
[US] Kansas City Sun (MO) 30 Dec. 1/4: He felt he could accomplish more good [...] by ‘denaturing empryotic Bible beaters’.
at bible-beater (n.) under bible, n.
[US] Kansas City Sun (MO) 18 May 6/5: The good jazzer can take any sorgt of a melody and jazz it up [...] He plays all the convolutions, evolutions and variations.
at jazzer, n.1
[US] Kansas City Sun (MO) 3 July 4/1: He stepped into a barber-shop [and] delivered them to the brass-faced boy in charge.
at brass-face (n.) under brass, adj.1
[US] Kansas City Sun (MO) 13 Nov. 2/3: ‘Hello Jazzbo’ briefly described is a high class colored musical organization of forty people, including a real creole beauty chorus and their own Jazzonian orchestra.
at jazzbo, n.
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