1950 ‘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.
1950 ‘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.
1950 ‘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.
1950 ‘Josephine Tey’ To Love and Be Wise 154: You a commercial?’ she asked [...] ‘No,’ said Grant. ‘I’m a policeman’.at commercial, n.
1950 ‘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.
1950 ‘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
1950 ‘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
1950 ‘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
1950 ‘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
1950 ‘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
1950 ‘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.
1950 ‘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.
1950 ‘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.
1950 ‘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.
1950 ‘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.
1950 ‘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.