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It’s Always Four O’Clock choose

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[US] ‘James Updyke’ [W.R. Burnett] It’s Always Four O’Clock 114: You’re going with a dame. She’s all over you. What did you have for lunch? Where were you Tuesday night? Why didn’t you call me at eight o’clock? Know what I mean?
at all over, adj.2
[US] ‘James Updyke’ [W.R. Burnett] It’s Always Four O’Clock 35: Royal [...] asked: ‘Say, have you fellows got any loose money?’ Walt recoiled. [...] Hollywood was full of bums who five’d and ten’d you to death.
at nickel-and-dime, v.
[US] ‘James Updyke’ [W.R. Burnett] It’s Always Four O’Clock 40: ‘A girl sees a guy she wants, so she goes after him hot and heavy; if she wants him bad enough, the sky’s the limit’.
at hot and heavy, phr.
[US] ‘James Updyke’ [W.R. Burnett] It’s Always Four O’Clock 134: [H]e didn’t like this ring-around-the-rosie underhand business at all.
at ring around the rosy, n.
[US] ‘James Updyke’ [W.R. Burnett] It’s Always Four O’Clock 130: ‘[W]e are out on our asses as of Saturday night’.
at out on one’s ass under ass, n.
[US] ‘James Updyke’ [W.R. Burnett] It’s Always Four O’Clock 117: I know I shouldn’t have said anything. I’m not usually one to pop off. But Walt and me were getting to be strangers.
at pop off (at the mouth), v.
[US] ‘James Updyke’ [W.R. Burnett] It’s Always Four O’Clock 48: ‘I was even on the Big Kick for a while.’ ‘You mean ‘H’?’ I gasped. ‘Yes,’ said Royal. [...] Have you really got it beat?’ I asked. ‘Yes,’ said Royal.
at big kick (n.) under big, adj.
[US] ‘James Updyke’ [W.R. Burnett] It’s Always Four O’Clock 100: Getting Walt hooked was a lot more important to Berte right now than blasting him about Rita.
at blast, v.1
[US] ‘James Updyke’ [W.R. Burnett] It’s Always Four O’Clock 66: ‘Piggy didn’t like the father [. . .] or the mother, as far as I can make out. Piggy marries some rich guy and blows the family’.
at blow, v.1
[US] ‘James Updyke’ [W.R. Burnett] It’s Always Four O’Clock 141: Jackie boiled and told me to get the hell out and stay out.
at boil, v.
[US] ‘James Updyke’ [W.R. Burnett] It’s Always Four O’Clock 128: ‘Trouble with Walt is, he’s got no ambition. If they think he’s going to beat his brains out to be a success [...] they’re daffy’.
at beat one’s brains out (v.) under brain, n.1
[US] ‘James Updyke’ [W.R. Burnett] It’s Always Four O’Clock 147: I bucked one of the fifty-cent slot machines. Believe it or not, I broke even.
at buck, v.2
[US] ‘James Updyke’ [W.R. Burnett] It’s Always Four O’Clock 134: ‘[Y]ou just get a bullheaded idea that you do and stick to it’.
at bullheaded, adj.
[US] ‘James Updyke’ [W.R. Burnett] It’s Always Four O’Clock 78: A guy gets so that he forgets that So. Cal. is a desert.
at So. Cal., n.
[US] ‘James Updyke’ [W.R. Burnett] It’s Always Four O’Clock 89: She was afraid the whole thing would blow up [. . .] and she’d lose her big chance to put the horse-collar on Lover Boy.
at horse-collar, n.
[US] ‘James Updyke’ [W.R. Burnett] It’s Always Four O’Clock 110: ‘Okay, fellows. “Tiger Rag.” And let’s cornball it.’ Well, words fail! This time it was the end. We took it fast, hot and corny.
at cornball, v.
[US] ‘James Updyke’ [W.R. Burnett] It’s Always Four O’Clock 96: Something had happened to Walter, all right; and it didn’t take any Dick Tracy to figure out what.
at Dick Tracy, n.
[US] ‘James Updyke’ [W.R. Burnett] It’s Always Four O’Clock 70: Walt also ended up almost getting shot because this Texas boy was real rough and sometimes packed the difference.
at difference, the, n.
[US] ‘James Updyke’ [W.R. Burnett] It’s Always Four O’Clock 150: He sang a jump tune [...] He belted it, he rocked, he was awkward as an ape, but he felt it and it came across.
at feel, v.
[US] ‘James Updyke’ [W.R. Burnett] It’s Always Four O’Clock 120: Funny thing about Walt. He wasn’t vain. He was no mirror-fighter, in spite of his looks.
at mirror-fighter, n.
[US] ‘James Updyke’ [W.R. Burnett] It’s Always Four O’Clock 20: [F]lea-bags where the meals they give the ‘artists’ are more important than the money they pay.
at fleabag, n.
[US] ‘James Updyke’ [W.R. Burnett] It’s Always Four O’Clock 148: Good thing I’d left Jackie in L.A.; she’d surely have been flipped-off at me.
at flipped off, adj.
[US] ‘James Updyke’ [W.R. Burnett] It’s Always Four O’Clock 82: The guy and one chick were really boiled, staggering and holding onto each other. The second chick was just a little flushed up.
at flush, adj.
[US] ‘James Updyke’ [W.R. Burnett] It’s Always Four O’Clock 108: Walt [...] slapped his hands, shook his head. [...] He was feeling it, man! [...] He fractured ‘em. You should have seen them chicks. They screamed.
at fracture, v.
[US] ‘James Updyke’ [W.R. Burnett] It’s Always Four O’Clock 148: I got so fractured that night they all had to put me to bed.
at fractured, adj.
[US] ‘James Updyke’ [W.R. Burnett] It’s Always Four O’Clock 19: There are a lot of freeloaders and goldbricks in my ‘profession’ [...] Walt didn’t object to the freeload, himself, but it wasn’t a passion with him.
at freeload, v.
[US] ‘James Updyke’ [W.R. Burnett] It’s Always Four O’Clock 34: You see, Berte was angling for him to take her home and he didn’t even get it, the big goof!
at get, v.
[US] ‘James Updyke’ [W.R. Burnett] It’s Always Four O’Clock 146: In spite of the brandy-glow I was developing, I felt kind of sorry for her.
at glow, n.
[US] ‘James Updyke’ [W.R. Burnett] It’s Always Four O’Clock 30: Walt [was] faking on the piano and goofing more than I’d ever heard him goof before. He was nervous on account of Royal.
at goof, v.
[US] ‘James Updyke’ [W.R. Burnett] It’s Always Four O’Clock 101: Me, I’m no bargain. No chick like Berte is ever going to strain herself over getting me in harness.
at in harness under harness, n.
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