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[UK] ‘Josephine Tey’ To Love and Be Wise 208: ‘I just thought he was in a provocative mood. That he was a little above himself’.
at above oneself, adj.
[UK] ‘Josephine Tey’ To Love and Be Wise 236: ‘She’ll wait up for me so that she can ask me what Marta Hallard was wearing,’ said Williams, the Benedict.
at benedict, n.
[UK] ‘Josephine Tey’ To Love and Be Wise 17: ‘[P]hotography. I spend most of the winter on the Coast, doing people.’ ‘The Coast?’ ‘California’.
at Coast, the, n.
[UK] ‘Josephine Tey’ To Love and Be Wise 154: You a commercial?’ she asked [...] ‘No,’ said Grant. ‘I’m a policeman’.
at commercial, n.
[UK] ‘Josephine Tey’ To Love and Be Wise 201: Grant shivered unaffectedly. The thought of the White Hart on a Sunday evening was death.
at death, n.
[UK] ‘Josephine Tey’ To Love and Be Wise 92: ‘Who is Liz Garrowby?’ ‘Walter Whitmore’s fiancée.’ ‘He was? Well!’ ‘But don’t go making five of it until we get some evidence’.
at make five (of) (v.) under five, n.2
[UK] ‘Josephine Tey’ To Love and Be Wise 195: ‘Writers must feel very flat when they’ve written something that no one can use’ .
at flat, adj.3
[UK] ‘Josephine Tey’ To Love and Be Wise 154: ‘You got the car out on the fly?’ ‘No,’ Grant said, and asked why she should think that. ‘Oh [...] Thought maybe you were out for the day on your little own’ .
at on the fly under fly, n.1
[UK] ‘Josephine Tey’ To Love and Be Wise 74: ‘You would have to know about their mental kink before you suffered any unholy attraction’.
at kink, n.3
[UK] ‘Josephine Tey’ To Love and Be Wise 213: Would it be one of Bryce’s good days or one of his ‘off’ ones? The Superintendent’s average was one off day to three good ones.
at off, adv.1
[UK] ‘Josephine Tey’ To Love and Be Wise 78: He had trotted out for her benefit all the light gossip of studio politics.
at trot out (v.) under trot (out), v.
[UK] ‘Josephine Tey’ To Love and Be Wise 216: ‘No bets on the field?’ ‘N-o. I think not. A saver on Weekley, perhaps’.
at saver, n.
[UK] ‘Josephine Tey’ To Love and Be Wise 64: [I]t was well-known that all Americans were reckless drivers [...] They had probably gone round a corner slap into something.
at slap into (adv.) under slap, adv.
[UK] ‘Josephine Tey’ To Love and Be Wise 164: ‘[Y]ou don’t really think that that poor stick Walter Whitmore ever got up enough red blood to tap the Searle boy on the head, do you?’ .
at stick, n.
[UK] ‘Josephine Tey’ To Love and Be Wise 157: ‘ I’m not so stuck on the river as I used to be’ .
at stuck on (adj.) under stuck, adj.
[UK] ‘Josephine Tey’ To Love and Be Wise 79: [S]he would think up some small exclusive thing to do with Walter; something [...] tête-à-tête. It had been too often a triangle lately.
at triangle, n.
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