1943 W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives for Ever 219: ‘This friend of mine, he’ll get us across the border with no trouble at all [...] None of them [i.. fugitives] ever had any trouble [...] he looks after them A-one’.at A-1, adv.
1943 W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives for Ever 236: ‘What are you doing here? Things are hotter than a two-dollar pistol’.at ...a (three-dollar) pistol under hot as..., adj.
1943 W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives for Ever 33: Johnny finished mixing the drinks and handed Jim one. ‘Here’s looking,’ said Johnny. They drank.at here’s looking at you!, excl.
1943 W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives for Ever 11: ‘Will there be a beef? ‘No beef. It was easy. Nice dame. She wanted me to go home with her’.at beef, n.2
1943 W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives for Ever 126: I’m worrying about you. You haven’t been up to par since we got here.at below par, adj.
1943 W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives for Ever 19: Was it the phrase, ‘a million-dollar sucker"? [...]Doc either had hold of a big one or he was crazy.at big one, n.
1943 W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives for Ever 22: Ray Slavens told me you almost blew the big one just because you got sore at the sucker.at blow, v.2
1943 W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives for Ever 21: He’d certainly been pulling some funny ones lately. Getting bugs over that chiseling Chicago dame; letting her make a slob out of him in front of his friends .at go bugs (v.) under bugs, adj.
1943 W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives for Ever 84: ‘You better make this take without any monkey business or I’m going to be very, very annoyed.’ ‘She’s a nice woman. No nonsense’.at monkey business, n.
1943 W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives for Ever 138: ‘[Y]ou’ll find twenty-five hundred dollars in your package. I told you I’d take care of you’.at take care of, v.
1943 W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives for Ever 129: He wanted to dress up in his best and swell around the hotel [...] and take a gander at the upper-class chilis.at chile, n.
1943 W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives for Ever 21: His blue eyes seemed cold and aloof behind the thick lenses of his glasses. He was a great guy for putting the chill on some bumptious sucker.at put the chill on (v.) under chill, n.
1943 W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives for Ever 37: It would be a cinch to get her to come to L.A. No matter what Jim said, she was strictly on the chisel.at on the chisel under chisel, n.
1943 W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives for Ever 61: ‘The nerve of that coked-up ex-croaker,’ said Johnny.at coked (up), adj.
1943 W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives for Ever 78: [H]e relaxed. It wasn’t a feminine lead or ‘come on.’ It was just a nice remark.at come-on, n.
1943 W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives for Ever 28: ‘Last thing of all he wants is to be buzzed by a broken-down con outfit’.at con, adj.
1943 W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives for Ever 34: [S]oldiers and sailors [...] patrol the roads with loaded guns and if a guy makes a crooked move he’s liable to stop lead.at crooked, adj.
1943 W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives for Ever 173: ‘Windy gets so sore he belts his girl friend [...] and knocks her out [...] Well, before she goes out she yells bloody murder and somebody calls a cop and Windy’s taken down’.at take down, v.
1943 W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives for Ever 239: ‘Okay, Lloyd,’ called one of the cops [...] ‘Get on your feet. You got a date downtown’.at downtown, n.
1943 W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives for Ever 224: Poor old Shake was such a bore, always drooling on about the past.at drool, v.
1943 W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives for Ever 138: Johnny glanced at Jim in trepidation. Why was it that junkies were never satisfied till they got their ears slapped down?at slap down someone’s ear (v.) under ear, n.1
1943 W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives for Ever 198: There’s a room right down the hall in such bad shape that it can’t be rented: plumbing’s on the fritz, everything’s wrong with it.at on the fritz (adj.) under fritz, n.2
1943 W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives for Ever 21: He’d certainly been pulling some funny ones lately. Getting bugs over that chiseling Chicago dame [...] And then this silly trip to California.at funny, adj.2
1943 W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives for Ever 28: ‘As a rule [...] a smart guy don’t try to beat a woman. At least not with the old-line gags‘.at gag, n.
1943 W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives for Ever 8: ‘Look at my clothes,’ said Doc, bitterly. ‘How could I get in with a dame like that?’.at get in (with) (v.) under get in, v.
1943 W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives for Ever 23: ‘A guy with a reputation like yours—well, you don’t expect him to go berserk over a babe like Tony. She’s been on the merry-go-round for some time’ .at one the merry-go-round (adj.) under merry-go-round, n.2
1943 W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives for Ever 173: Windy gets so sore he belts his girl friend a couple and knocks her out—he claims he just slapped her. Well, before she goes out she yells bloody murder and somebody calls a cop.at go out, v.
1943 W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives Forever 4: Got what looks like a good one in the third at Aqueduct .at good one, n.
1943 W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives for Ever 214: ‘I found a good spot for the car. [...] I even got a hitch back’.at hitch, n.2