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Franchise Affair (1954) 131: I realize now he was bluffing them we were police.at bluff, v.
Franchise Affair (1954) 131: I realize now he was bluffing them we were police. Franchise Affair (1954) 257: ‘After a lot of rag chewing—’ ‘Of what?,’ said his lordship. ‘A lot of discussion, my lord.’ ‘Go on,’ said his lordship, ‘but do confine yourself to English, standard or basic’.at rag chewing, n.
Franchise Affair (1954) 260: Well, from then on it was just a fight. [...] I tore that silly negligée off her, and it was ding-dong till she tripped over one of her mules [...] and went sprawling’.at ding-dong, n.5
Franchise Affair (1954) 209: ‘Bill did a bit of good too. Going to give his missus a fur coat’.at do (oneself) a bit of good (v.) under good, n.
Franchise Affair (1954) 260: ‘[F]or some reason or other she got in my hair. [...] [T]here was something about this little tramp that turned my stomach’.at get in one’s hair (v.) under hair, n.
Franchise Affair (1954) 212: ‘Rose could have very little chance of wearing a watch that the Staples people must quite often have seen on your wrist. It is much more likely that she was “large” with it in favour of her friend’.at large, adv.
Franchise Affair (1954) 82: ‘She sort of smouldered. You wondered what she would be like when she was lit up. Excited, I mean; not tight’.at lit (up), adj.
Franchise Affair (1954) 83: [I]t [i.e. a newspaper story] offered [...] the impression that the police had been, if not ‘nobbled’, then at least lax, and that Right had not been Done.at nobble, v.2
Franchise Affair (1954) 152: ‘Just like that,’ he said, commenting on this simple statement of a tall order.at tall order (n.) under order, n.
Franchise Affair (1954) 254: ‘She looked a pretty sleek little outfit to me.’ ‘A what?’ said the judge. ‘A well-cared for young girl, my lord.’.at outfit, n.1
Franchise Affair (1954) 209: ‘[I]f the worst comes to the worst and they end up bankrupt, the old lady can always do a fair trade as a tipster’.at tipster, n.
Franchise Affair (1954) 83: [A] disgraceful old man unloading on his income-tax.at unload, v.
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