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Chapter L: =Last sensation=--A tight shoe

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=Let’s blouse=--Let’s go

=Loan me your frame for the next struggle=--Polite way of asking for
the next dance

=Lit up like a lighthouse=--Brilliantly inebriated

=Lot of bologna=--Gross exaggeration

=Let me off the merry-go-round=--Stop kidding me

=Lounge lizard=--Parlor sheik

=Let the brakes off the beans=--Table etiquette for asking for same

=Liberty bond=--Divorce papers

=Landlord’s birthday=--Day landlord calls for the rent

=Lower than a snake’s belt-buckle=--Not very high

=Lay off the Bennie=--Let go the overcoat

=Lot of crust=--Lot of nerve

=Let’s have some inside dope=--Expression of a man who wants a drink

=Lip=--Argument

=Lamp it=--Look it over

=Lemon squeezer=--One who prefers maiden ladies

=Looking in the pink=--Appearing in fine condition

=Like a flea in a bale of hay=--Not amounting to much

=Long drink of water=--Thin person

=Landscape explorer=--Youth who sits his girl on a park bench and
talks about the scenery

=Lay-down=--Set of numbers on gaming table

=Lift an elbow=--Common talk where beer is concerned

=Lush up=--To get drunk

=Leading a dog’s life=--A girl who gets nothing but petting and scraps

=Leave a good impression=--Use lots of lip rouge

=Lambs on the bum=--When lambs escape on a ranch

=Let it ride on a fish=--Send it C. O. D.

=Lottery ticket=--Marriage license

=Lily pad hopper=--A dance hound

=Laugh that off=--Controversial triumph

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