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 Current Search - corny in The Catcher in the Rye
1  He's so good he's almost corny, in fact.
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2  It's corny, I realize, but it isn't too corny.
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3  I can't sit in a corny place like this cold sober.
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4  But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I always act corny too.
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5  He started off with about fifty corny jokes, just to show us what a regular guy he was.
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6  You can cross over, or do some corny dips, or even jitterbug a little, and she stays right with you.
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7  After a while, he'd be sitting back there and then he'd start interrupting what old Spencer was saying to crack a lot of corny jokes.
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8  She kept saying these very corny, boring things, like calling the can the "little girls' room," and she thought Buddy Singer's poor old beat-up clarinet player was really terrific when he stood up and took a couple of ice-cold hot licks.
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9  I mean if a boy's mother was sort of fat or corny-looking or something, and if somebody's father was one of those guys that wear those suits with very big shoulders and corny black-and-white shoes, then old Hans would just shake hands with them and give them a phony smile and then he'd go talk, for maybe a half an hour, with somebody else's parents.
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