Chapter C: =Cradle snatcher=--Person who prefers a younger companion

=Communion suit=--Best of anything

=Cat’s meow=--The latest thing

=Can that chatter=--Request for written statement

=Come out in the wash=--Be all right in the end

=Cut the comedy=--Stop joking

=Cough it up=--Say what you want

=Coffin varnish=--Bad whiskey

=Carbolic acid=--Goodbye in any language

=Canned tongue=--Bashful and untalkative fellow

=Cauliflower cultivator=--Pugilist

=Can opener=--Wife who serves hubby’s meals directly from the
delicatessen

=Chasing them in the open=--Scratching the head

=C. O. D. boy=--One with a crush on dames

=Clean up the Kitchen=--Plate of hash

=Calendar=--One with many engagements

=Chin music=--Chatter

=Cat’s pajamas=--Something classy

=Cat’s glee=--Dumb but happy

=Cold as grandmother’s kiss=--Lacking in enthusiasm and ardor

=Creeping Jesus=--Joy killer

=Cat’s whiskers=--Nifty

=Chew the rag=--Engage in conversation

=Canalboats=--Large sized shoes

=Call on one’s Uncle=--Sightseeing beneath the sign of the three balls

=Come up for air=--Stop talking

=Cold meat box=--A coffin

=Chamois pusher=--Window cleaner

=Calendar week=--All dated up

=Chair warmer=--A politician

=Chase the cow down this way=--Pass the milk

=Classy Rib=--Nicely appearing young woman

=Coffin nails=--Cigarettes

=Crackerjack lamp quencher=--Female adept at giving black eye

=Curbstone scratch=--Street idler

=China closet=--Mouth full of false teeth

=Call off your dog=--You’re stepping on my foot

=Cop a mope=--Take a walk

=Cauliflower carnival=--Boxing match

=Club steak=--Girl whose appetite is great

=Checker player=--Girl who moves from one fellow to the other

=Cigar lighter=--One who never works

=Chicken butcher=--Lady killer

=Crab the show=--Spoil the affair

=Cross-country man=--An automobile thief

=Cop and blow!=--The skin game man’s signal to his confederates to win
and walk away

=Chive=--knife or dagger

=Corn crusher=--Dancer who is particular about his partner’s feet

=Capper=--An auctioneer’s confederate who bids up

=Cop!=--The skin game man’s signal to his confederates to win

=Cheaters=--Pair of glasses

=Carries his lunch in his hat=--Never tips his hat

=Cut up old dough=--Talk over old times

=Carrying the banner=--Going all night without a bed

=Crash a snowbank=--Enter a cocaine sniffing joint

=Conducer=--Railroad conductor

=Cold turkey=--Definite statement of facts

=Cork the glycerine=--Stop the movie tears

=Caser=--One dollar bill

=Croaker=--Doctor, referred to in a sarcastic vein as the man who
kills you

=Crashing the gate=--A mild divertisement of a man without a ticket

=Clean=--Broke

=Capper=--Come-on man in circus skin games

=Camel snatcher=--Flapper who likes her puff

=Close your delicatessen before your tongue gets cold=--Less Talk

=Cut the gallows=--Throw away that rope you’re smoking

=Combination=--Hobo term for regular meal

=Corking party=--Lots to drink

=Cabaret sunburn=--Liquor flush

=Court plaster=--Young lady summoned to court often

=Crack up=--Wreck of an airplane