VINTAGE VOCABULARY

A: absquatulate, acknowledge the corn, almighty dollar, amen corner, antifogmatic

B: backwoods, bail out, ballyhoo, Barnburner, bite the dust, Blue Dog Democrat, blue law, booboisie, boodle, boondoggle, bootlegger, bottom dollar, Brother Jonathan, bumbo

C: cakewalk, calibogus, callithumpian, carpetbagger, cherry-pick, cocktail, come on like gangbusters, Copperhead, cousin on, cut a hog

D: dirt poor, dope, double down, doughface, drink the Kool-Aid

E F: eighty-six, fellow traveler, filibuster, flapper, flummox

G: gandy dancer, gerrymander, go ballistic, go Dutch, go haywire, go postal, greenhorn,
grog-hole, groovy

H: hacker, ham it up, hash, high ball, high muckamuck, highfalutin, high on the hog, hit pay dirt, hit the ground running, hit the skids, Hooverville

I J K: jerkwater town, jitterbug, Job's turkey, jukebox, jump on the bandwagon, jump the shark, keep the ball rolling, Know Nothing

L: lame duck, land office business, left field, lipstick on a pig, Loco-Foco, lunatic fringe

M: malefactor of great wealth, mizzle, mossback, muckraker, mugwump

N O: Nervous Nellie, netop, nimptopsical, okay, Okie, on the ball, Old Hunker, out in left field

P Q: pantywaist, parlor pink, pass the buck, pay dirt, peace pipe, Philadelphia lawyer, piker, plug nickel, Plug Ugly, poor farm, pork barrel, pull a boner, punk, push back, put on (the) dog

R: rambunctious, reds under the bed, ride the gravy train, root hog or die

S: scalawag, scofflaw, see a man about a dog, see the elephant, shenanigan, shill, shindig, shivaree, sit-down strike, skin in the game, slacker, snollygoster, sockdolager, speakeasy, spoils system, spondulix, stay until the last dog is hung, stemwinder

T: take the cake, in the tank for, tenderfoot, throw someone under the bus, tinhorn, tin-pan, tomahawk, troll, try it on the dog, twenty-three skidoo, two bits

U V W: waldo, wamble-cropped, ward heeler, Watergate words, wave the bloody shirt, whistle stop, whole nine yards

X Y Z: Yankee, Yellow Dog Democrat