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Mr Love and Justice choose

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[UK] C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 53: So we’re easy to spot [...] Stick out a mile, you’d say.
at stick out like a sore thumb, v.
[UK] C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice 7: A bad discharge-book, too: adrift in Yokohama and repatriated at official expense.
at adrift, adj.
[UK] C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 53: I’ve never yet seen a cop, even got up as a down-and-out or something, who can bear to be seen around if he’s down-at-heel.
at down-and-out, n.
[UK] C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 191: She drained her b. and s.
at b and s, n.
[UK] C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 147: But on the up-and-up – legitimate.
at on the up and up (adj.) under up-and-up, n.
[UK] C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 112: I hope your private investigations haven’t b---d up the situation prematurely.
at ballocks (up), v.
[UK] C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 30: For the vice barons: the gaff landlords and [...] the easy-money boys.
at baron, n.
[UK] C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 42: Frankie wasn’t greedy about money and only felt the urgent need of it for explosive blow-outs when ashore in port.
at blow-out, n.1
[UK] C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 100: He came into a boozer [...] where I was partaking of a dram.
at boozer, n.
[UK] C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 63: Naturally, boy! But do use your loaf!
at use one’s loaf (v.) under loaf (of bread), n.
[UK] C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 164: The news of the arrest of Frankie’s girl had already spread by the ponce-prostitute bush telegraph.
at bush telegraph, n.
[UK] C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice 20: If you’re in business full-time, and your landlord’s not ignorant, you don’t get a gaff for less.
at business, n.
[UK] C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice 23: Not only the civvies all mistrust you [...] the uniformed men do, too.
at civvie, n.
[UK] C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 9: Would he make plain-clothes – would he? Think of it! In civvies yet unlike the other millions.
at civvies, n.
[UK] C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 72: ‘So what did you tell them?’ [...] ‘Well, I am a ponce – so what? I said poncing.’ ‘And?’ ‘They crunched me.’.
at crunch, v.
[UK] C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 192: Well, darl, they all say that.
at darl, n.
[UK] C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 47: Okey-doke. Well, here it is.
at okey-doke!, excl.
[UK] C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 49: I’m not a dope: I’ll remember.
at dope, n.2
[UK] C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 134: One of our vice boys I’m on a job with [...] who’s got a down on me.
at down, n.2
[UK] C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 74: The man in Italian drape and pointeds.
at drape, n.
[UK] C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 191: I’ve thought of trying: stow away and get duff papers.
at duff, adj.
[UK] C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 24: If you can get the woman to testify against him – then you’ve got him! And as women have all sorts of reasons for losing interest in their fancy-men.
at fancy man, n.1
[UK] C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 79: But if you fix a case, Edward, then don’t you commit a crime yourself?
at fix, v.1
[UK] C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 79: A case is never fixed unless we’re absolutely sure the feller did it.
at fixed, adj.1
[UK] C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 170: ‘F--k off!’ said a voice.
at fuck off!, excl.
[UK] C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice 33: Well, I’ll be f---d!
at fucked, adj.2
[UK] C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice 20: I pay a Bengali eight [pounds] a week for this little gaff [Ibid.] 30: The gaff landlords and the escort-businesses that handle call-girls.
at gaff, n.1
[UK] C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 191: He’s bound to speak against me, honey. After all why shouldn’t he? It’s his graft.
at graft, n.1
[UK] C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 165: The heat’s on at the station to find this boy.
at heat, n.
[UK] C. MacInnes Mr Love and Justice (1964) 167: Frankie disapproved of Indian hemp (well, just didn’t like it).
at hemp, n.
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