Citations:crumb-crusher

English citations of crumb-crusher

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1985 — Odie Hawkins, The Busting Out of an Ordinary Man, Holloway House (1985), →ISBN, page 21:
…She ain't into nothin', with two crumbcrushers and no ambition.
1987 — John White, Billie Holiday: Her Life & Times, Spellmount (1987), →ISBN, page 121:
But Maya Angelou, who came to know Billie in California, only a few months before her death, remembers that at their first meeting Billie declared flatly: 'I can't stand children. The little crumb-crushers eat you out of house and home and never say "Dog, kiss my foot" … I can't stand the little bastards.'
1996 — Tina McElroy Ansa, The Hand I Fan With, Anchor Books (1998), →ISBN, page 147:
"Yeah, I wish I could sit out by the river by myself without all these little crumb-crushers climbing all over me."
1996 — Chuck Wachtel, The Gates, Penguin Books (1996), →ISBN, page 194:
"I know what these little crumb-crushers are thinking," Manny tells Primo.
1997 — Christopher Paul Curtis, The Watsons Go to Birmingham — 1963, Yearling (1997), →ISBN, page 93:
"Let me guess, which one of the crumb-crushers is going to surprise Big Daddy today?"
2008 — Elizabeth Lowell, Blue Smoke and Murder, Avon (2009), →ISBN, page 75:
[…] Not many boys his age would be, but he's really looking forward to having a crumb-crusher in the house."