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[US] People’s Voice (Wellington, KS) 1 Dec. 6/5: ‘I could buy them in Ireland for sixpence.’ ‘Then why didn’t you stay in that blessed country?’ ‘Bejazus, you couldn’t get the sixpence’.
at bejazus!, excl.
[US] People’s Voice (Wellington, KS) 14 Apr. 4/2: It’s a cold day when the professional calamity belly-acher cannot find something to make himself miserable over.
at belly-acher (n.) under bellyache, v.
[US] People’s Voice (Wellington, KS) 14 Apr. 4/2: It’s a cold day when the professional calamity belly-acher cannot find something to make himself miserable over.
at bellyacher (n.) under bellyache, n.
[US] People’s Voice (Wellington, KS) 18 Aug. 8/2: Waggoner [...] got tangled up in trying to cross all of those catawampus bridges.
at catawampus, adj.
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