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[US] Kinsley Graphic (KS) 17 Apr. 3/3: You go down the stairs, which are wet and decayed with filth, and at the bottom you find the poor victims on the floor, cold, sick [...] These are the ‘dives’ nto which pickpockets and thieves go.
at dive, n.2
[US] Kinsley Graphic (KS) 4 Sept. 5/3: When it came to wild cats, why, gosh all hemlock, he was like a prophet of old!
at gosh all hemlock! (excl.) under gosh, n.
[US] Kinsley Graphic (KS) 10 June 1/2: It looked for a while as if it was going to be as good or better, when all at once ‘Ker-flooey’.
at kerflooey! (excl.) under ker-, pfx
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