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[US] Oasis (Arizola, AZ) 9 Jan. 7/1: Several of the ‘dobies’ used by the bandits [...] are in the pockets of Tucson people who procured them by giving silver dollars in exchange.
at adobe dollar (n.) under adobe, adj.
[US] Oasis (Arizola, AZ) 6 July 6/1: The new paper at Yuma, the Bee, and the Times are having a parrot and monkey time.
at parrot and monkey time, n.
[US] Oasis (Arizola, AZ) 25 July 8/1: When his hide is filled with booze, / You bet your neck he’s tough.
at bet one’s neck (v.) under bet, v.
[US] Oasis (Arizola, AZ) 18 Sept. 8/1: You are a great big bag of wind was what [he] said to ‘Jolly Pat’ the heavy-weight pugilist.
at bag of wind (n.) under bag, n.1
[US] Oasis (Arizola, AZ) 26 June 6/1: Cattle are inquisitive and when they saw this rider on his wheel they wondered what kind of a cowpuncher he was.
at cow-puncher, n.
[US] Oasis (Arizola, AZ) 19 June 1/4: Should the able British nerwspaper [...] make a careful introspection it would probably find itself ‘full of prunes’ which it has taken for misgivings.
at full of prunes under prune, n.
[US] Oasis (Arizola, AZ) 9 Sept. 4/1: [They] have been repeatedly informed [...] that certain folks in Nogales ‘were soon going belly up’.
at belly up, adj.2
[US] Oasis (Arizola, AZ) 26 May 9/2: The two democratic organs in Pinal county seem to be having a parrot and monkey time generally.
at parrot and monkey time, n.
[US] Oasis (Arizola, AZ) 16 Nov. 8/2: The woman was so broad in the beam and her arms were so chubby.
at broad in the beam (adj.) under broad, adj.
[US] Oasis (Arizola, AZ) 9 Mar. 11/1: Of all the blood suckers that drain the ready money out of a community the mail order houses take the belt.
at take the belt (v.) under belt, n.
[US] Oasis (Arizola, AZ) 21 Mar. 3/1: J.D. Brown, comnfidence man [...] got himself in jail here [...] through his efforts to do the rush act and secure the loan of money.
at rush act, the (n.) under rush, n.
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