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[UK] W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives for Ever 136: ‘He’s an A-Number-One bastard’.
at A-1, adj.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives for Ever 61: ‘The nerve of that coked-up ex-croaker,’ said Johnny.
at coked (up), adj.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives for Ever 224: Poor old Shake was such a bore, always drooling on about the past.
at drool, v.
[UK] 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
[UK] 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
[UK] 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
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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
[UK] 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.
[UK] W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives Forever 4: Got what looks like a good one in the third at Aqueduct .
at good one, n.
[UK] 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
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