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The Cool Man choose

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[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] W.R. Burnett Cool Man 83: They were crazy, Carl decided, stark, staring. Dead-assed and dead-headed.
at deadhead, adj.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] W.R. Burnett Cool Man 125: He had withdrawn additional funds from his source and he was now well-enough heeled for a good long stay.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.
[US] W.R. Burnett Cool Man 75: He was a lowly hustler now with a stable of girls.
at hustler, n.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] W.R. Burnett Cool Man 64: ‘Mr. Allen,’ said the bell captain, ‘I made you as smart from the first’.
at make, v.
[US] 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.
[US] W.R. Burnett Cool Man 66: So roll on, little man. Go. Go. Get lost.
at roll on!, excl.
[US] W.R. Burnett Cool Man 16: The police [...] were still smarting from the reaming they’d received in the press.
at reaming, n.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
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