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Glass Key 485: ‘[T]his wholesale thing is too much like using a cyclone shot to blow off a safe-door when you could get it off without any fuss by using a come-along’.at come-along, n.
Glass Key 485: ‘[T]his wholesale thing is too much like using a cyclone shot to blow off a safe-door when you could get it off without any fuss by using a come-along’. Glass Key 446: ‘What gets into you, Ned?‘ he complained. ‘You go along fine for just so long and then for no reason at all you throw an ing-bing’.at ing-bing, n.
Glass Key 443: Harry Sloss picked up the dice and rattled them in a pale broad hairy hand. ‘Shoot two bits’ He dropped a twenty-dollar bill and a five-dollar bill on the table.at two bits, n.
Glass Key 485: ‘[T]his wholesale thing is too much like using a cyclone shot to blow off a safe-door when you could get it off without any fuss by using a come-along’.at cyclone shot, n.
Glass Key 457: ‘Bernie Despain blew town last night with my winnings on Peggy O’Toole’ [. . . .] ‘I’ve got to get this guy’ [. . . .] ‘[W]hen I think I’ve worn out the jinx, this guy takes a Mickey Finn on me. I can’t stand for it.at take a Mickey Finn (v.) under mickey finn, n.
Glass Key 511: The nurse came in carrying a large basket of fruit. Isn’t it lovely?’ [...] Frowning at the card, he told the nurse [...] ‘Help yourself to that gunk and take enough of it so it’ll look as if I’d been eating it’.at gunk, n.1
Glass Key 524: ‘Got an iron I can have? One that’ll carry me over country roads tonight?‘ Tommy said: ‘[. . . .] Well, I got a Buick that I don’t care what happens to’.at iron, n.
Glass Key 503: Ned Beaumont’s body and arms and legs jerked convulsively [...] After that he lay still. Jeff s [...] growled, [...] ‘It ain’t no good now. He’s throwed another joe’.at joe, n.5
Glass Key 574: ‘Don’t be a sap, Neddy. This can’t get you anything but a rub-out. What good’s it going to do you to try to turn me up? None’.at rub(-out), n.
Glass Key 547: ‘You remember the night the Henry kid was pooped?’.at poop, v.2
Glass Key 470: ‘Ain’t you getting up in the world! The last time I saw you you were just punking around for Paul’.at punk around (for) (v.) under punk, v.
Glass Key 470: ‘So honest Paul Madvig’s letting you drop the shuck on me, huh?‘ Ned Beaumont smiled. ‘You’re not being framed, Bernie, and you know it’.at put the shuck on (v.) under shuck, n.
Glass Key 459: He did not take her hand. He slapped the back of it lightly, said ‘’Lo, snip,’ and sat on the foot of her bed.at snip, n.
Glass Key 462: ‘They went to a lot of places, mostly speakies’.at speaky, n.2
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