Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States |
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... Slick . I'm dying - I know I am ! My mouth tastes like a rusty cent . will charge an all - fired price to cure me . - Knickerbocker Mag . , 1845 . - The doctor The first thing I know'd , my trowsers were plastered all over with hot ...
... Slick . I'm dying - I know I am ! My mouth tastes like a rusty cent . will charge an all - fired price to cure me . - Knickerbocker Mag . , 1845 . - The doctor The first thing I know'd , my trowsers were plastered all over with hot ...
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... Slick , Nature and Human Nature , p . 17 . The crowd of office - seekers in Washington will be among the missing , when they learn the President's decision . - N . Y. Herald . Anagreeta . " Corn gathered before maturity , and dried in ...
... Slick , Nature and Human Nature , p . 17 . The crowd of office - seekers in Washington will be among the missing , when they learn the President's decision . - N . Y. Herald . Anagreeta . " Corn gathered before maturity , and dried in ...
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... Slick , Human Nature . Aristocratic . Strangely misapplied in those parts of the country where the population is not dense . The city , in the surrounding country towns , is deemed " aristocratic . " The people in the villages consider ...
... Slick , Human Nature . Aristocratic . Strangely misapplied in those parts of the country where the population is not dense . The city , in the surrounding country towns , is deemed " aristocratic . " The people in the villages consider ...
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... Slick , Human Nature , p . 124 . When people try to hunt [ office ] for themselves , . . . and seem to be barking up the wrong sapling , I want to put them on the right trail . - Crockett's Tour , p . 205 . Barm . ( Ang . - Sax . beorm ...
... Slick , Human Nature , p . 124 . When people try to hunt [ office ] for themselves , . . . and seem to be barking up the wrong sapling , I want to put them on the right trail . - Crockett's Tour , p . 205 . Barm . ( Ang . - Sax . beorm ...
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... Slick was a queer chap . I never see the beat of him . - Yankee Hill's Stories . To beat all hollow . To beat thoroughly . Beat ' em . " Well , that is the beat ' em ; " i . e . , it beats all , it sur- passes all others . The thing in ...
... Slick was a queer chap . I never see the beat of him . - Yankee Hill's Stories . To beat all hollow . To beat thoroughly . Beat ' em . " Well , that is the beat ' em ; " i . e . , it beats all , it sur- passes all others . The thing in ...
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