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[US] W.R. Burnett Tomorrow’s Another Day 69: ‘One of his brothers was a bad boy around Chicago in the old days. But Willy’s all right’.
at bad boy, n.
[US] W.R. Burnett Tomorrow’s Another Day 182: ‘[W]hat he’s doing on this beetle I don’t know. He usually has his pick of mounts.’ ‘What’s a beetle?’ asked Mary. ‘A goat,’ said Lonnie.
at beetle, n.2
[US] W.R. Burnett Tomorrow’s Another Day 50: ‘I got a tip,’ he said, ‘that the Greek took an awful pasting on a boat-race that slipped’.
at boatrace, n.1
[US] W.R. Burnett Tomorrow’s Another Day 185: ‘[A] lot of ugly rumors have been going around about this race. I’ve been told a dozen times that it’s a boater. Nobody seems to know who is supposed to win, but everybody seems to think there’s more here than meets the eye’.
at boatrace, n.1
[US] W.R. Burnett Tomorrow’s Another Day 148: Things were going along perfectly when all of a sudden—boom!—they blow up.
at boom!, excl.
[US] W.R. Burnett Tomorrow’s Another Day 91: ‘The boss practically had him rolling on the floor, laughing. I almost busted out myself a couple of times’.
at bust out, v.3
[US] W.R. Burnett Tomorrow’s Another Day 23: ‘Say, what do you hear from Annette?’ ‘Haven’t heard a word since she went on her vacation. Maybe she caught herself a soldier and got married’.
at catch, v.1
[US] W.R. Burnett Tomorrow’s Another Day 72: ‘I was telling her about [...] when I used to work at the Erie as a bellboy. She winced.’ [...] ‘You probably imagined it.’ ‘Well, why wouldn’t she? I’m not much catch for her.
at catch, n.
[US] W.R. Burnett Tomorrow’s Another Day 135: ‘Hold tight to your chair, son, because now I’m really going to throw you a curve. I’m going to bet the money on credit!’.
at throw a curve (v.) under curve, n.
[US] W.R. Burnett Tomorrow’s Another Day 93: ‘She a girl friend of yours, Jack?’ ‘No. I’ve had her out to dinner once or twice. ‘Maybe I can cut in then?’ ‘Why not?’.
at cut in, v.
[US] W.R. Burnett Tomorrow’s Another Day 50: ‘The Greek went East, I guess, to dig up a big bankroll’ [ibid.] 69: Willy whistled again. ‘You said it,’ he exclaimed. ‘Where did the boss dig her up?’.
at dig up, v.1
[US] W.R. Burnett Tomorrow’s Another Day 63: ‘It’s late, isn’t it?’ said Mary. [...] ‘I’ll be dopey tomorrow. I need so much sleep’.
at dopey, adj.1
[US] W.R. Burnett Tomorrow’s Another Day 88: ‘Yes, darling, I know.’ Lonnie swore to himself humorously. Damn it! She always knew. ‘How did you know, Einstein?’ he demanded.
at Einstein, n.
[US] W.R. Burnett Tomorrow’s Another Day 126: ‘I was a little surprised at Mr. Keller getting back in the game [i.e. high-stakes gambling]. He came in here one day and told me he was all washed up.’.
at game, n.
[US] W.R. Burnett Tomorrow’s Another Day 57: As they mounted the last step Lonnie stumbled and almost fell. [...] ‘It’s slippery,’ said Mary, looking at him with veiled surprise. [...] ‘No, said Lonnie, it’s my gimp’.
at gimp, n.2
[US] W.R. Burnett Tomorrow’s Another Day 92: ‘There’s one thing I still don’t get,’ said Willy [...] ‘Why did she ever go around with that Greek?’.
at go round with (v.) under go round, v.
[US] W.R. Burnett Tomorrow’s Another Day 92: ‘Boys,’ she said, ‘you did wonders tonight. I want to thank you.’ ‘Glad it went off so well, Mrs. Drew,’ said Pinky.
at go off, v.
[US] W.R. Burnett Tomorrow’s Another Day 46: ‘Flying Fast. He’s lowered, too [...] ’ ‘Flying backwards—that’s what he ought to be called, the goat!’.
at goat, n.1
[US] W.R. Burnett Tomorrow’s Another Day 117: ‘Only thing that worries me,’ he said, ‘is all this money pouring in. It’s going to look bad.’ [...] ‘I can plant it from New York City to New Orleans. A thousand here, a thousand there. Nothing to it. Ray here is the best man there is on the handle. We’ve turned some big ones in our time, eh, Ray?’.
at handle, n.
[US] W.R. Burnett Tomorrow’s Another Day 17: [M]ost men his age were married and had kids. A single man had very little in common with the head of a family; he was out of it, that’s all.
at out of it, adj.1
[US] W.R. Burnett Tomorrow’s Another Day 92: He had some time to kill, as Lonnie wanted him to wait and go back to the restaurant with him.
at kill, v.
[US] W.R. Burnett Tomorrow’s Another Day : ‘I’ve had my say, boys. Now I’m going home and hit the kip. These morning workouts get me up mighty early.’.
at hit the kip (v.) under kip, n.1
[US] W.R. Burnett Tomorrow’s Another Day 77: ‘This Pacini guy—does he generally know what he’s talking about?’ ‘He’s like that with Benny,’ said Willy, holding up two fingers’.
at like that, adj.
[US] W.R. Burnett Tomorrow’s Another Day 170: ‘With that boy Lonnie handling things, we’re a lead-pipe cinch, a lock. Am I right?’.
at lock, n.1
[US] W.R. Burnett Tomorrow’s Another Day 125: Ray [...] slowly riffled the bills, wetting his thumb from time to time like a file-clerk leafing through a pile of correspondence. ‘A hundred and five thousand dollars, I make,’ he said.
at make, v.
[US] W.R. Burnett Tomorrow’s Another Day 20: ‘Well, he won’t do it; that’s a mortal,’ said Sam, laughing again.
at mortal, n.
[US] W.R. Burnett Tomorrow’s Another Day 47: ‘Good thing Ray was here.’ ‘Ray’s a goddamn old woman,’ said Willy bitterly.
at old woman, n.
[US] W.R. Burnett Tomorrow’s Another Day 122: Lonnie glanced at her, then burst out laughing. ‘You panic me with your remarks,’ he said.
at panic, v.
[US] W.R. Burnett Tomorrow’s Another Day 117: ‘Only thing that worries me,’ he said, ‘is all this money pouring in. It’s going to look bad.’ ‘That’s my job,’ said Lonnie. ‘I can plant it from New York City to New Orleans. A thousand here, a thousand there’.
at plant, v.1
[US] W.R. Burnett Tomorrow’s Another Day 210: ‘What do you guys take me for—a reuben? I come in here from Detroit with a bankroll and right away the wolves begin to gather’.
at reuben, n.
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