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slick
The popular pronunciation of sleek, and so written by some authors.--Webster. It is also used adverb...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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slick as a whistle
A proverbial simile, in common use throughout the United States. To do anything as slick as a whistl...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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as
as, assis, m. (nom. assis, Don. ad Ter. Phorm. 43, and Schol. ad Pers. 2, 59; old form assārĭus, ii,...
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to slick up
To dress up; to make fine. Mrs. Flyer was slicked up for the occasion, in the snuff-colored silk sh...
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elbow-grease
Persevering exercise of the arms, exciting perspiration; hard rubbing.--Glossaries of Brockett and C...
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as good as go
In the phrase, I'd as good's go to New York, instead of "I might as well go to New York." "I'd as go...
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as good's go
In the phrase, I'd as good's go to New York, instead of "I might as well go to New York." "I'd as go...
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cold as presbyterian charity
I know not the origin of this saying, and am not aware that there is less charity in this sect than ...
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sick as a dog
A common expression, meaning very sick at the stomach. He that saieth he is dog sick, or sick as a ...
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hearty as a buck
A hunter's phrase, now in very common use. Well, how d'ye do, any how? So, so, middlin'. I'm heart...
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poor as job's turkey
A common simile. The professor is as poor as Job's turkey, if it wasn't for that powerful salary th...
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sick as a horse
'I'm as sick as a horse,' is a vulgar phrase which is used when a person is exceedingly sick. As a h...
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sure as a gun
Absolutely certain. A common colloquial expression.--Brockett. There's luck, says auld Lizzy, in fa...
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crooked as a virginia fence
A phrase applied to anything very crooked; and figuratively to persons of a stub-born temper, who ar...
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dead as a door nail
Utterly, completely dead. The figure is that of a nail driven into wood, and, therefore, perfectly i...
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if so be as how
A vulgar expression used by uneducated people in the interior parts of this country and in England. ...
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mad as a march hare
A common simile, used alike in England and America. The whole's to be fourpence a quart-- 'Odswing...
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savage as a meat axe
Exceedingly hungry. This vulgar simile is often used in the Northern and Western States. "Why, you ...
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straight as a loon's leg
is a common simile in New England. They were puzzled with the accounts; but I saw through it in a m...
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i don't know as i shan't
for I don't know but I shall. This uncouth expression, Mr. Hurd says, is very common in the eastern ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.