From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... big alcoholic
center, a kind of pilot ...
12&12 p.147,
Tradition Four
They figured the town needed a great big alcoholic center, a kind of pilot plant A.A. groups could duplicate everywhere.
2.
... Big Book
(A.A. members' fond nickname for ...
BB xii,
Preface
All changes made over the years in the Big Book (A.A.
members' fond nickname for this volume)
have had the same purpose:
to represent the current membership of Alcoholics Anonymous
more accurately, and thereby to reach more alcoholics.
3.
... Big Book
appeared in 1939, we called ...
12&12 p.184,
Tradition Twelve
4.
... big business.
BB p.136,
To Employers
Among many employers nowadays, we
think of one member who has spent much of his life in the world of big business.
5.
... big chunks
of truth about yourself.
BB p.71,
How It Works
6.
... big coin.
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
7.
... big happy
family.
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
Maybe this sounds as though the alcoholics in
A.A. had suddenly gone peaceable, and become one great big happy family.
8.
... big hulk
of a man.
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
9.
... big lump
that we can't begin to ...
12&12 p.113,
Step Twelve
Then perhaps life, as it
has a way of doing, suddenly hands us a great big lump that we can't begin to swallow, let alone digest.
10.
... big lumps
as they come.
12&12 p.114,
Step Twelve
11.
... big potted
plant which I set down ...
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
It was the day before Mother's Day and I had come home plastered, carrying a
big potted plant which I set down on the table and forthwith went upstairs and passed out.
12.
... big setbacks
at the time, but will ...
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
These will appear as big setbacks at the time, but will be seen later as stepping-stones to better things.
13.
... big shot?
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
14.
... big shot.
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
15.
... big shot
in cheap barrooms and then ...
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
But when self-will had driven everybody away and our isolation had
become complete, it caused us to play the big shot in cheap barrooms and then fare forth alone on the street to depend upon the charity of passersby.
16.
... "big-shot-ism" we
can often check ourselves by ...
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
As an insurance against "big-shot-ism" we can often check ourselves by remembering that we are today sober only by the grace of God and that any success we may be having is
far more His success than ours.
17.
... big shot,
we turned people against us.
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
18.
... big that
no equity should be left ...
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
The family may feel they hold a mortgage on dad, so big that no equity should be left for outsiders.
19.
... big-time trouble,
and this would really do ...
12&12 p.159,
Tradition Six
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