bent-an-ear

Updated: June 19, 2025

Say bet you've often bent-an-ear to that spill-of-speech about hopping from five to f-i-f-t-y p-e-r by "stepping on her a bit!" Guess that's going some, all right BUT just among ourselves, you better start a rapidwhiz system to keep tabs as to how fast you'll buzz from low smoke spirits to TIP-TOP-HIGH once you line up behind a jimmy pipe that's all aglow with that peach-of-a-pal, Prince Albert.

Sinclair Lewis - Babbitt