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[US] S. Noel Few Die Well 65: ‘Regulations my back!’ I barked at him. ‘I am the Security Officer at this post. I make the regulations’.
at my back! (excl.) under back, n.1
[US] S. Noel Few Die Well 184: ‘[W]e could have him trailed to his Long Island retreat.’ ‘Bully,’ she said. ‘Capital. First rate’ .
at bully!, excl.
[US] S. Noel Few Die Well 111: ‘Don’t call my hand,’ I told him. ‘Not you or anybody is going to stop me from doing what I have to do’.
at call someone’s hand (v.) under call, v.
[US] S. Noel Few Die Well 85: The professor [...] played a most convincing role. Also he had [...] led us to no contacts nor revealed himself in any way. He was a cutie-pie.
at cutie-pie, n.
[US] S. Noel Few Die Well 5: [A] Levantine type [...] who proposed that I should pay him a large sum of money to ransom one of our fancy-Dan atom boys.
at fancy-Dan, adj.
[US] S. Noel Few Die Well 73: Baker took me to our diggings. [...] We had an expansive layout on the first floor.
at diggings, n.
[US] S. Noel Few Die Well 146: ‘They’re both back in Moscow, and they’re said to be in the doghouse, so I don’t suppose we’ll ever hear from them again’.
at doghouse, n.
[US] S. Noel Few Die Well 5: I was sitting out a miserably humid afternoon in my Teheran fly-trap, a two-rooms-without-bath layout over a coffee house.
at flytrap (n.) under fly, n.3
[US] S. Noel Few Die Well 71: ‘Well, Commandant,’ I said, ‘I don’t think we’ll have any trouble working together. I don’t intend to get in your hair’.
at get in one’s hair (v.) under hair, n.
[US] S. Noel Few Die Well 89: ‘That’s no way to speak to the Commandant.’ ‘He’s an old woman,’ I said, ‘and a stuffed shirt, to boot’.
at old woman, n.
[US] S. Noel Few Die Well 74: ‘When do I get to the Plans Section?’ I asked him. ‘Along about Friday. But you give that just a once-over lightly. Remember?’.
at once-over, n.
[US] S. Noel Few Die Well 66: ‘Have my two people in the car come in. [...] Inform the Commandant’s office that I have arrived’.
at people, n.
[US] S. Noel Few Die Well 181: ‘I wouldn’t be able to stand Baker’s sour puss on such a beautiful morning’.
at sourpuss, n.
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