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Phrases in the Green Mile by Stephen King

Posted by Helene turry on March 18, 2001

I am trying to find out the meaning/origin of the following phrases from Stephen King's book the Green Mile:

dead run
in a walk
riding the rods
lickety-larrup
killing bottle