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The Black Mask choose

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[UK] E.W. Hornung Black Mask (1992) 229: If she were only that I should feel safe as houses.
at ...houses under safe as..., adj.
[UK] E.W. Hornung Black Mask (1992) 142: You’ve saved your bacon.
at save one’s bacon (v.) under bacon, n.1
[UK] E.W. Hornung Black Mask (1992) 210: But you may bet your bottom dollar that if there’s any boodle in the flat it’s in this room.
at bet one’s bottom dollar (v.) under bet, v.
[UK] E.W. Hornung Black Mask (1992) 199: This old sinner Corbucci turns out to have been no end of a boss in the Camorra – says so himself.
at boss, n.2
[UK] E.W. Hornung Black Mask (1992) 272: Feel equal to a cigarette? It will buck you up, Bunny.
at buck up, v.2
[UK] E.W. Hornung Black Mask (1992) 220: You have the bulge at present.
at bulge, n.
[UK] E.W. Hornung Black Mask (1992) 206: How the devil was I to find out?
at how the devil...?, phr.
[UK] E.W. Hornung Black Mask (1992) 164: Where the devil are you driving us?
at where the devil...?, phr.
[UK] E.W. Hornung Black Mask (1992) 255: The whole thing was a fluke.
at fluke, n.2
[UK] E.W. Hornung Black Mask (1992) 155: I’m on for any mortal thing!
at on for, phr.
[UK] E.W. Hornung Black Mask (1992) 160: Going to run me in, officer?
at run in, v.
[UK] E.W. Hornung Black Mask (1992) 211: I certainly shan’t leave you [...] to be knocked into the middle of next week by a better man than yourself.
at knock into the middle of next week (v.) under knock into, v.
[UK] E.W. Hornung Black Mask (1992) 230: You did lay it on.
at lay it on, v.
[UK] E.W. Hornung Black Mask (1992) 157: Our medico had married the week before, nor was any fellow-practitioner taking his work.
at medico, n.
[UK] E.W. Hornung Black Mask (1992) 155: Because you never could act for nuts!
at for nuts (adv.) under nuts, n.1
[UK] E.W. Hornung Black Mask (1992) 198: He meant catching me before he’d done, and scoring off me in exactly the same way that I scored off him, only going one better of course.
at score off someone (v.) under score, v.
[UK] E.W. Hornung Black Mask (1992) 205: An upstairs door found screwed up [...] thief gone and jewels with him.
at screwed up (adj.) under screwed, adj.
[UK] E.W. Hornung Black Mask (1992) 155: Only remember, Bunny, it’s my turn next to pay the shot.
at pay one’s shot (v.) under shot, n.1
[UK] E.W. Hornung Black Mask (1992) 151: And I who had bolted my skilly at Wormwood scrubs.
at skilly, n.1
[UK] E.W. Hornung Black Mask (1992) 205: And what’s more, I’m very much mistaken if I haven’t spotted the right sportsman.
at sportsman, n.
[UK] E.W. Hornung Black Mask (1992) 234: ‘Now you’re talking!’ I cried, recovering my spirits.
at now you’re talking under talk, v.
[UK] E.W. Hornung Black Mask (1992) 192: I had told my very necessary tarradiddle.
at taradiddle, n.
[UK] E.W. Hornung Black Mask (1992) 215: I begin to believe you are from the Yard.
at Yard, the, n.
[UK] E.W. Hornung Black Mask (1992) 257: It has taken me all these years to find my tipple, Bunny.
at tipple, n.
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