collars-and-cuffs

Updated: May 16, 2025

The nickname, "Collars-and-Cuffs," became classical; and once, when Brannagan and the 117 were ordered out on the service-car, the Irishman wore the highest celluloid collar he could find in Angels, rounding out the clownery with a pair of huge wickerware cuffs, which had once seen service as the coverings of a pair of Maraschino bottles.

Francis Lynde - The Taming of Red Butte Western

"What-all do you think of Mister Collars-and-Cuffs by this time?" Bradford took a leisurely minute to whittle a chewing cube from his pocket plug of hard-times tobacco. "Well, first dash out o' the box, I allowed he was some locoed; he jumped me like a jack-rabbit for takin' a clearance right under Jim Carter's nose that-a-way.

Francis Lynde - The Taming of Red Butte Western

Williams rose up to his full height of six-feet-two, and flung his hands upward in a gesture that was more expressive than many oaths. "Collars-and-Cuffs, by God!" he said.

Francis Lynde - The Taming of Red Butte Western

In the Angels roundhouse, on the second morning following the attempt upon Lidgerwood's life at the gate of the Dawson cottage, the discussion was spirited, not to say acrimonious. "I'm telling you hyenas that Collars-and-Cuffs ain't going to run away," insisted Williams, who was just in from the all-night trip to Red Butte and return. "He ain't built that way."

Francis Lynde - The Taming of Red Butte Western