A perfect day for bananafish

J.D.SALINGER

NINE STORIES

A PERFECT DAY FOR BANANAFISH

1. to reach puberty (27)

2. a raving maniac (32)

3. to break into an oblique run (33)

4. to squint up at smb. (33)

5. to lie prone (34)

6. to yank one’s hand away from smb. (35)

7. to wade out (36)

8. to snub smth. (37)

UNCLE WIGGILY IN CONNECTICUT

9. with little or no wherewithal (41)

10.to talk one’s ear (head) off (42)

11.to get hard as nails (42)

12.to be lousy with secrets (43)

13.to be a make-believe person (44)

14.to lunge to one’s feet (45)

15.to execute a grind and a bump (46)

16.to be drafted (47)

17.to be a wisecracking person (49)

18.to hoist oneself to a sitting position (50)

19.to giant-step one’s way (51)

JUST BEFORE THE WAR WITH THE ESKIMOS

20.to conjure up a vision of smth. (54)

21.to be ratty (54)

22.to give oneself the upper hand (55)

23.to defy clemency (55)

24.to be put off by smth. (55)

25.to plop down on the sofa (56)

26.to have bed-dishevelled hair (56)

27.to need a transfusion (57)

28.to be the true and only focal point (57)

29.to two-finger out a cigarette (59)

30.to feel affronted (61)

31.draft board (61)

32.to undergo some form of eyestrain (63)

33.to stare discontentedly (63)

34.to clutter up the whole apartment with smth. (64)

35.to knock wood (65)

36.tennis paraphernalia (66)

THE LAUGHING MAN

37.to push and punch one’s way (66)

38.to rough it (67)

39.just in passing (67)

40.to be piqued (68)

41.to shun smb. or smth. (68)

42.to reek of smth. (69)

43.to find smb. a warm place in the nation’s heart (69)

44.to get (take) wind of smth. (69)

45.to whet one’s taste (69)

46.to amass a fortune (70)

47.out of unrequited love (70)

48.to draw a bead on smb.’s forehead (71)

49.to plant smth. on smb. (71)

50.to do smth. for poise (73)

51.to talk a blue streak (74)

52.to be long past worrying about smb. (76)

53.to cover one’s sack (77)

54.to be alive to the fact (78)

DOWN AT THE DINGHY

55. to hit the road (83)

56. to be slightly over one’s head (84)

57. to shoot one’s mouth off about smth. (85)

FOR ESME - WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR

58. expenses be hanged (90)

59. to prevent smth. from flatting (90)

60. to be a good mixer (90)

61. to be given an opaque look (91)

62. to count the house (92)

63. blase eyes (92)

64. to bring up the rear (93)

65. the deadpan expression of a born heller (93)

66. to hold up one’s end of a conversation (94)

67. to have nails bitten down to the quick (94)

68. to look a fright (95)

69. to be gregarious (96)

70. to baffle smb. (96)

71. to give smb. a fishy look (97)

72. in a real pinch (98)

73. to be an avid reader (99)

74. to be a prolific writer (99)

75. to have a propensity to do smth. (100)

76. to leave the vicinity of smth. (100)

77. to align the toes of one’s shoes (100)

78. to follow one’s ordeal (101)

79. to make a beeline for the door (101)

80. to ponder (103)

81. to take a pot shot at smth. (107)

82. to be saddled with one responsibility after another (109)

PRETTY MOUTH AND GREEN MY EYES

83. to hit the ceiling (116)

84. to be mismated (117)

DE DAUMIER-SMITH’S BLUE PERIOD

85. without a single gripe (122)

86. magic wand (122)

87. to ply one’s trade (123)

88. to stipulate (125)

89. formidable critics (125)

90. to be (to play) a wet blanket (128)

91. to be frugal of one’s talent (132)

92. to eat away at one’s sense of justice (133)

93. to branch over into the printing racket (135)

94. to draw along the lines (135)

95. to be in disarray (135)

96. to track down a name to many a blind alley (136)

97. to wear one’s grief on (up) one’s sleeve (137)

98. to steep in smth. (137)

99. to reproduce smth. verbatim (139)

100.to be a long shot (139)

101.in the same breath (139)

102.to submit smth. to (140)

103.to take one’s final vows (143)

104.to offer one’s services gratis (146)

105.to be tantamount to smth. (147)

TEDDY

106.at a moment’s notice (150)

107.to out-male smb. (150)

108.to be inundated by (151)

109.to loll around in the sun (153)

110.to meander all around the deck chairs (153)

111.there’s going to be one genius among the missing (154)

112.army dog tag (159)

113.to write condolence letter (160)

114.to get kittenish (160)

115. don’t look a gift horse in the mouth (160)

116.to be a sacrilege (162)

117.to be an absolute pawn (162)

118.to be one’s forte (165)

119.to have a strong affinity for smb. (165)

120.to get out of the finite dimensions (167)

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