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Conant 8: The killer had never been apprehended. He’d merely copped a sneak up a convenient alley.at cop a sneak (v.) under cop a..., v.
Conant 8: The killer had never been apprehended. He’d merely copped a sneak up a convenient alley. Conant 83: These boys played very rough; rip and tear, old hoodlum style.at rip and tear, adj.
Conant 75: Tony sat shaking his big head. [...] ‘This beats me. All of it. I just don’t get it’.at beat, v.
Conant 61: That night Mike put the column to bed at eleven o’clock.at put to bed (v.) under bed, n.
Conant 98: ‘If he hadn’t been belting it, he wouldn’t’ve acted that way tonight. Sometimes he acts like he’s lost his marbles when he gets full of paint’.at belt, v.
Conant 5: ‘Had a run-in with Dwight over the column. He boils me’.at boil, v.
Conant 87: ‘ This is so big it scares me. It’ll scare [newspaper publisher] Dwight when it comes time to break it’.at break, v.2
Conant 50: Nothing against him I know of. No strong-arm stuff. Just bulldog persistence.at bulldog, adj.
Conant 23: ‘She missed the overnight Chi train, which went off with her luggage’.at Chi, n.
Conant 67: ‘[Y]ou know how he was killed. He was fingered, set up for the kill’.at finger, v.
Conant 21: ‘You never seen us. You never talked to us. You know from absolutely goddamned nothing. [...] Get me?’.at get me? under get, v.
Conant 91: ‘[W]ould you mind goosing up that column a little? It’s dying. It spoiled my breakfast this morning’.at goose, v.3
Conant 21: ‘Now listen careful, big boy. You never seen us. You never talked to us. You know from absolutely goddamned nothing. Right?at know (nothing) from nothing (v.) under know, v.
Conant 8: Bill was gone now—having caught lead one snowy afternoon in November of last year.at catch lead (v.) under lead, n.
Conant 31: [H]e turned up at Wally’s at about eleven-thirty. There was quite a crowd and the juke box was all lighted up and playing. Apparently Wally had got some live ones for a change.at live one, n.
Conant 102: ‘Now don’t start throwing monkey wrenches into the machinery. I had a hard time persuading Tony as it was’.at throw a (monkey) wrench into (the machinery) (v.) under monkey, n.
Conant 19: ‘Now I’ll tell one.’ She laughed ironically.at one, n.1
Conant 98: ‘Sometimes he acts like he’s lost his marbles when he gets full of paint’.at paint, n.
Conant 8: The grapevine was that Bill, known to get around quite a bit, had been perforated by a jealous husband.at perforate, v.
Conant 14: Mike shifted his weight slightly, took a long pull from his drink.at pull, n.
Conant 51: Miss Engel was married previously, and got a quickie divorce in Mexico to marry Bill Worden.at quickie, n.
Conant 8: [T]he boys [...] hated being wrestled down to the show-up line, especially before lunch.at show-up, n.
Conant 100: ‘[H]ere’s your heater. I jerked its teeth, so don’t forget to reload it or you’ll be playing a dead hand’.at teeth, n.
Conant 13: ‘Glad you dropped in, Mike. [...] You want the usual?’.at usual, the, n.
Conant 31: There were some tough babies present, Mike was certain of that.at tough baby (n.) under tough, adj.
Conant 59: ‘All right, Jake,’ said Mike. ‘Keep your wig on’.at keep one’s wig cool (v.) under wig, n.2
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