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You Gotta Be Rough 63: The man they suspect wouldn’t squeal on a bet.at not on a bet (phr.) under not on a bet, phr.
You Gotta Be Rough 63: The man they suspect wouldn’t squeal on a bet. You Gotta Be Rough 203: The Monaco and the Dandy got off light, two years. They took a plea, and that avoided the bother of a trial.at cop a plea, v.
You Gotta Be Rough 44: We brought him up on a charge of possession of concealed weapons, the sawed-off shotgun [...] He took a plea.at cop a plea, v.
You Gotta Be Rough 78: ‘He’ll be giving you the air pretty soon. He’s got another jane, and he’s nuts about her’.at give someone the air (v.) under air, n.
You Gotta Be Rough 187: ‘[Y]ou’ll overlook the fact that I’m a cop. It’s my bread and butter’.at bread and butter, n.1
You Gotta Be Rough 101: [F]or a real rough citizen, a bad, bad baby, I’m pinning the medal on a husky fellow of forty-five with stabbing black eyes and a big black moustache.at bad baby (n.) under bad, adj.
You Gotta Be Rough 62: As a property owner [...] the criminal element didn’t make any hit with him [...] , and the more bad boys that went to jail, the better.at bad boy, n.
You Gotta Be Rough 107: [T]here were fights among the mob for leadership in the scheme [i.e., the ‘Italian Lottery’]. [...] Several gents were ambitious to become the Big Boss.at big boss, the, n.
You Gotta Be Rough 46: What I wanted to do was give him a chance to choose between taking a stretch or tipping me off as to the big boys of his smart set.at big boy, n.
You Gotta Be Rough 184: ‘If I go around with a girl she’s going to be treated right. If there’s anything I can’t stand it’s a cheap skate’.at get it big (v.) under big, adv.
You Gotta Be Rough 163: ‘Fiaschetti,’ I laughed, ‘the big bluff. He’s a dirty fake. He couldn’t get you’.at bluff, n.1
You Gotta Be Rough 276: [of infiltrating the US Mafia] ‘Mike,’ I said to myself, ‘you’ll learn a few things before you’re through with this clambake, only here’s hoping it won’t be a lesson in ‘Safety First’ for your successor’ .at clambake, n.
You Gotta Be Rough 211: She [...] cooked the scheme of using brother-in-law Rullo and little Rebecca to fool detectives that might be on the trail.at cook, v.1
You Gotta Be Rough 247: Both sides in this romance were crooking the cards, as is often the case in affairs of the heart.at crook, v.1
You Gotta Be Rough 78: ’You’re getting yourself into trouble by protecting him and he’s double-crossing you.’ [...] ‘You’re a liar,’ she came back at me [...] ‘Him play me crooked? It ain’t so’.at play crooked (v.) under crooked, adj.
You Gotta Be Rough 211: He was liable to a good dose as accessory to murder.at dose, n.1
You Gotta Be Rough 66: [C]rooks open up to their broads as no third degree or dusting off in the back room of a station house can make them.at dusting, n.1
You Gotta Be Rough 184: I was flashing the bankroll and dealing out a pinochle hand of yellowbacks.at flash, v.1
You Gotta Be Rough 184: She was a good kid, as I told you, but she was naturally one of those gimme girls.at gimme girl (n.) under gimme, n.
You Gotta Be Rough 184: ‘If I go around with a girl she’s going to be treated right. If there’s anything I can’t stand it’s a cheap skate’.at go round with (v.) under go round, v.
You Gotta Be Rough 234: It needed only one word [...] and your little Mike was knocked off his pins, punch drunk, goofy.at goofy, adj.
You Gotta Be Rough 32: The Police Department nowadays has a detective school with lectures and blackboards and all that for educating gumshoe sleuths, but in my time the college course for dicks was simpler.at gumshoe, adj.
You Gotta Be Rough 119: Beauty was summoned [...] She was dark, tense, tall, and stately, and amply endowed with the ancient quality modernly called ‘it’.at it, n.1
You Gotta Be Rough 78: ‘He’ll be giving you the air pretty soon. He’s got another jane, and he’s nuts about her’.at jane, n.2
You Gotta Be Rough 107: [T]here were fights among the mob for leadership in the scheme [i.e., the ‘Italian Lottery’]. [...] The swag was so juicy you couldn’t blame anyone for wanting to dip into it.at juicy, adj.
You Gotta Be Rough 116: [I]t is up to the detective to protect his sources of information [...] You’ve got a fat chance of keeping your stool pigeons lined up if you are getting them turned into business for the undertaker.at line up, v.
You Gotta Be Rough 91: You’ve got to be an actor in this sleuthing game, and being able to look like a hop head, needle jabber, and snow bird sometimes comes in handy.at needle fiend (n.) under needle, n.
You Gotta Be Rough 24: [H]is expensive apartment had been turned off and a lot of gilt-edged junk started on its way to the fences.at turn off, v.1
You Gotta Be Rough 65: Her brother was wanted. A stiletto party, and he had got in some fancy surgery.at party, n.2
You Gotta Be Rough 63: [S]tool pigeons are not always underworld characters [...] It takes all kinds of feathered beauties to make a stool-pigeon system.at stool-pigeon, n.1
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