pegged identified.
cut out of the same mud alike.
bringing home the bacon earning a salary.
moony romantically sentimental.
Candy Stripers teenage volunteers in a hospital, noted for the requisite red-and-white striped uniforms that they wear.
Bobbie Brooks a brand of clothing associated with well-to-do young adults.
Old Grand-Dad a bourbon distilled in Kentucky.
Jackson Purchase approximately 2,000 square miles of land that extended beyond the Tennessee River and became an addition to the state of Kentucky in 1818, when General Andrew Jackson and Isaac Shelby of the United States negotiated with the Chickasaw Indian Nation. The Chickasaws received $300,000 over fifteen years. (In the same treaty, the Chickasaws relinquished 6,000 square miles of land, which was added to the state of Tennessee.)
it was no horseradish meaning no playing around.
Great Plain high plateau in central North America; the High Plains in northwestern Oklahoma and the panhandle are part of the Great Plain.
cashing in and plowing under committing suicide and being buried.
ace in the hole something held in reserve that can help in an emergency.
head rights claim to Native American ancestry.
Oral Roberts University named for evangelist Oral Roberts and located in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
giant McDonald’s thing the stainless steel Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, which stands 630 feet tall and commemorates the city’s role as the gateway to the West during the nineteenth century.
blue moon the second full moon in a calendar month; “once in a blue moon” indicates a rare occurrence.
spit nails angry.
plaits braids.
Psycho a 1960 Alfred Hitchcock movie about a murderous, mentally unbalanced man and one of his victims.
President Truman Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), the thirty-third president of the United States (1945-1953).
