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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

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BIG   occurs   20 times 5 in BB  •  15 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
  ... big alcoholic center, a kind of pilot ...  12&12 Tradition Four, p.147
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 Preface, p.xii
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 Tradition Twelve, p.184
When the Big Book appeared in 1939, we called it "Alcoholics Anonymous."


4.
  ... big business.  BB To Employers, p.136
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 How It Works, p.71
That being so you have swallowed and digested some big chunks of truth about yourself.


6.
  ... big coin.  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.163
Somehow it looked like a very big coin.


7.
  ... big happy family.  12&12 Tradition Ten, p.177
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 Tradition Five, p.152
"I was soon sitting beside a big hulk of a man.


9.
  ... big lump that we can't begin to ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.113
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 Step Twelve, p.114
Like most people, we have found that we can take our big lumps as they come.


11.
  ... big potted plant which I set down ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.179
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 Step Twelve, p.111
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 Step Four, p.51
Did I overvalue myself and play the big shot?


14.
  ... big shot.  12&12 Step Ten, p.92
Thus blinded by prideful self-confidence, we were apt to play the big shot.


15.
  ... big shot in cheap barrooms and then ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.116
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."  12&12 Contents (Step Ten), p.8
Insurance against "big-shot-ism."


17.
  ... "big-shot-ism" we can often check ourselves by ...  12&12 Step Ten, p.92
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.


18.
  ... big shot, we turned people against us.  12&12 Step Four, p.47
We had to see that every time we played the big shot, we turned people against us.


19.
  ... big that no equity should be left ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.131
The family may feel they hold a mortgage on dad, so big that no equity should be left for outsiders.


20.
  ... big-time trouble, and this would really do ...  12&12 Tradition Six, p.159
I certainly won't be the guy to land A.A. in big-time trouble, and this would really do it!"


The 164 and More™ Book, eBook, and Web Site are all CONCORDANCES which display passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous, the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, and the A.A. Grapevine (A.A. Preamble only).  Sorting and rendering passages in the proprietary format of the 164 and More concordance does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous World Services Inc., or the A.A. Grapevine, Inc.  Further A.A.W.S. Inc. and the A.A. Grapevine Inc. have no objection to the use of this material in the 164 and More concordance.

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