1968 W.R. Burnett Cool Man 63: ‘She’ll get you in nothing but trouble. She’s got some nickel-and-dimer on the string and she was trying to con me’.at nickel-and-dimer, n.
1968 W.R. Burnett Cool Man 97: He intended to wait Willie out, and, in the language of the police on tail, put Willie to bed.at put to bed (v.) under bed, n.
1968 W.R. Burnett Cool Man 17: ‘Can you imagine? All those years he was laying back, waiting to pull the big one’.at big one, n.
1968 W.R. Burnett Cool Man 50: ‘And maybe there’s a few other things you don’t know about this blast. Maybe there was eight instead of seven’.at blast, n.1
1968 W.R. Burnett Cool Man 87: Little shrewd bullconning dangerous Willie, smart as a cobra and twice as deadly.at bull con (n.) under bull, n.6
1968 W.R. Burnett Cool Man 113: [W]hat a hunk of stuff, in spite of the cheaters and the stiff white dress.at cheaters, n.2
1968 W.R. Burnett Cool Man 75: Mr. Allen—whatever he was—and Chris had little doubt now that it was shady, probably a big con operator.at big con (n.) under con, n.1
1968 W.R. Burnett Cool Man 83: They were crazy, Carl decided, stark, staring. Dead-assed and dead-headed.at deadhead, adj.
1968 W.R. Burnett Cool Man 70: Carl and Nick had just about had it with each other [...] Togetherness was not their dish.at dish, n.1
1968 W.R. Burnett Cool Man 44: He’d been found asleep in bed with one of his girl friends. Duck soup, the lucky cop thought.at duck soup, n.
1968 W.R. Burnett Cool Man 86: Nick would throw a fit—that was for sure—if he didn’t turn up sometime that night.at throw a fit (v.) under fit, n.3
1968 W.R. Burnett Cool Man 128: ‘Prove to me you didn’t kill Nick and I’ll really go to the front for you’.at go to (the) front (v.) under front, n.1
1968 W.R. Burnett Cool Man 69: ‘I told her my wife was driving me crazy because she’d gone fruit for some redheaded guy’.at go fruit (v.) under fruity, adj.2
1968 W.R. Burnett Cool Man 9: ‘You’ll never be able to afford it working at a job like this,’ Willie said. ‘Unless you plan to grab one of these old broads’ .at grab, v.
1968 W.R. Burnett Cool Man 125: He had withdrawn additional funds from his source and he was now well-enough heeled for a good long stay.at heeled, adj.
1968 W.R. Burnett Cool Man 89: It’s going to get crowded, Carl told himself. But they had lucked up onto the inside track.at inside track (n.) under inside, adj.
1968 W.R. Burnett Cool Man 48: ‘Now about Wicks [...] No matter who we put him in with, in two days or less, they’re at it’.at at it under it, n.1
1968 W.R. Burnett Cool Man 32: ‘If I know Willie, he’ll stay in California. I mean he won’t take no long jumps’.at jump, n.
1968 W.R. Burnett Cool Man 31: [H]e saw the strong-armed guy give a jump. ‘Where the hell are you, you old lizard?’.at lizard, n.
1968 W.R. Burnett Cool Man 89: It’s going to get crowded, Carl told himself. But they had lucked up onto the inside track.at luck up on (v.) under luck, n.
1968 W.R. Burnett Cool Man 64: ‘Mr. Allen,’ said the bell captain, ‘I made you as smart from the first’.at make, v.
1968 W.R. Burnett Cool Man 55: ‘I’m trying to tell you, Fallon,’ said Tony. ‘Drop it. Keep your nose clean. Or you’ll have a visitor’.at keep one’s nose clean (v.) under nose, n.
1968 W.R. Burnett Cool Man 16: The police [...] were still smarting from the reaming they’d received in the press.at reaming, n.
1968 W.R. Burnett Cool Man 63: ‘She’ll get you in nothing but trouble. She’s got some nickel-and-dimer on the string and she was trying to con me’.at on a/ the string under string, n.
1968 W.R. Burnett Cool Man 29: Al warned Johnny never to strip a sucker. Never drive him to the wall. [...] . Just bleed him slowly and as painlessly as possible.at hang someone to the wall (v.) under wall, n.