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Vocabulary from The Catcher in the Rye
I'm reading The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, and I've found some colloquial expressions I had read before in some novels from the 1950's, but I haven't seen them used in movies or more recent texts, but still I'd like to have some help to know if I'm interpreting these expressions the right way:
a bang —> a pleasurable sensation crumby —> disgusting dough —> money Mac —> Man, fellow phony —> false, fake screwballs —> an eccentric person swell —> great, fantastic the can —> a lavatory to be a goner —> someone dead or about to die to be loaded —> to have much money to spend to chew the fat —> to talk relaxedly to give someone a feel —> to caress someone to horse around —> to joke to neck —> to kiss, embrace and caress to shoot the bull/crap —> to lie and exaggerate to give the time / to give it —> to have sexual intercourse (would this be said only by men?) And in the next situations, how are those expressions used? · Someone makes a redundant remark ("that's a deer hunting hat") and the answer is "Like hell it is." I know there is a rude side for this expression, but what is this "like hell"? Is it some kind of emphatic "of course"? · The young man narrates about meeting a woman he finds nice and as she takes off her gloves, he says "was she lousy with rocks." I can't really figure out what he means. · I'm confused about the expression "to haul it in": The narrator talks about his father: "He's a Corporation Lawyer. Those boys really haul it in." I have found that "to haul" is to make profits, mostly illicit ones but "to haul in" is to arrest… how are these two put together? · The narrator often uses the adjective "old" when he talks about people he has dealt with for long: "I wanted to call old Jane", "old Mrs. Morrow didn't know..." Is this a common use of "old" or is it also a past fashion? Thank you, for taking the time to read through.
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