1947 N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 38: If you think I’m going to hang round here like a bloody extra with the family handing me out the bird in fourteen different positions you’ve got another think coming.at give someone a/the (big) bird (v.) under bird, n.2
1947 N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 29: She’s the Old Person’s little bit of nonsense. Immensely decorative.at bit of nonsense (n.) under bit, n.1
1947 N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 73: Was I tickled! Pauline and Milly looking blue murder and poor little Cedric bleating.at blue murder, n.
1947 N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 219: ‘Gee,’ she said, ‘will that sound good! Boy, oh boy!’.at boy!, excl.
1947 N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 219: You think that when we’re married I’ll begin to work in some funny business.at funny business, n.
1947 N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 97: Well, for crying out loud [...] look who’s here.at for crying out loud!, excl.
1947 N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 248: You cut off and don’t worry about it.at cut away (v.) under cut, v.2
1947 N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 9: ‘You are going it,’ she added, squinting at Miss Bostock’s canvas.at go it, v.
1947 N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 131: Chief Inspector? [...] That’d be one of the high-ups, wouldn’t it? Chief Inspector who?at high-up, n.
1947 N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 104: If I were you [...] I think I should feel a bit hipped about the money too.at hipped, adj.1
1947 N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 182: Supposing Miss Orrincourt did monkey with the thermos.at monkey, v.
1947 N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 204: Running a murderer to earth is just a job to us, as copping a pickpocket is to the ordinary P.C.at p.c., n.
1947 N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 38: I don’t think your line of comedy with Barker is screamingly funny.at screamingly, adv.
1947 N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 191: All would have been well if Carol Able [...] hadn’t made out a water-tight alibi for that septic child.at septic, adj.
1947 N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 234: There, you’ll notice, are the marks round the lid where he had a shot at opening it.at have a shot at (v.) under shot, n.1
1947 N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 152: Would you be good enough [...] to oblige me with Mrs Snips the Tailor’s Wife?at snip, n.
1947 N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 191: Carol Able, who is so scientific and ‘un-thing’ that she’s sort of a monster.at thing, the, n.
1947 N. Marsh Final Curtain (1958) 124: ‘What’s he done?’ ‘Handed them the works.’.at hand someone the works (v.) under works, the, n.