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The Dead Butler Caper choose

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[UK] F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 121: They take it for granted that just because Daddy was a bit of a lad, in his youth, he is still up to all kinds of villainy.
at bit of a lad (n.) under bit of (a), n.
[UK] F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 150: She was drunk as a coot.
at drunk as a cootie, adj.
[UK] F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 109: I’m out of a watch and I reckoned you wouldn’t mind letting me have one down to the old pals act.
at act, n.
[UK] F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 65: There was a tense silence and when she spoke again it sounded like she’d lost her bottle.
at lose one’s bottle (v.) under bottle (and glass), n.
[UK] F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 35: Gloria was ’is skin and blister.
at skin-and-blister, n.
[UK] F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 32: Sounds like he’s got it bad. [Ibid.] 34: Len told me he’s got it bad over Gloria Randy.
at have (got) it bad (v.) under bad, adj.
[UK] F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 72: I know she’s pretty banged up [...] But you look like a mechanic with hands like a surgeon.
at banged up, adj.1
[UK] F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 75: My husband died and left me without a bean.
at bean, n.1
[UK] F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 64: Like most ginger beers she was frightened, lonely, disillusioned and beset.
at ginger (beer), n.
[UK] F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 101: She was up on stage beltin’ out the latest ’it, an Al Jolson number.
at belt out (v.) under belt, v.
[UK] F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 40: Yuh’ve stuck the soddin’ fing in the wrong ’ole, yuh burk!
at berk, n.
[UK] F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 121: I happen to be fractionally more blind terrified of your father than I am of the unknown murderer.
at blind, adv.1
[UK] F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 106: Clews had made it blindingly obvious that he considered me a bigger liar than Tom Pepper.
at blinding, adj.1
[UK] F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 148: They bashed in the Major’s boat race so’s the law’d fink it was ole Park’urst wot got dun in.
at boatrace, n.2
[UK] F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 86: ‘Everything under control, sergeant?’ [...] ‘Tickadyboo, sir.’.
at tickety-boo, adj.
[UK] F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 22: Us’ll not book you for having worn tyres, zur.
at book, v.1
[UK] F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 51: I ordered more whisky and got down to brass tacks.
at get down to brass tacks (v.) under brass tacks, n.
[UK] F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 12: Looks like there’s been a bundle in the library.
at bundle, n.2
[UK] F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 120: The moment she turned her back I did a bunk.
at do a/the bunk (v.) under bunk, n.1
[UK] F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 103: That butler geezer captured ’im bang to rights just as ’e climbed in the burnt.
at burnt (cinder), n.
[UK] F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 133: Why would I wanna send someone around to give yuh the business?
at give someone the business (v.) under business, n.
[UK] F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 64: Tangerine was a camp young queen with yellow hair.
at camp, adj.
[UK] F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 62: Okay, chicken.
at chicken, n.
[UK] F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 139: You may be absolutely certain of that, you ghastly little chiseller.
at chiseler, n.
[UK] F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 130: I was beginning to feel choked off with the pair of them.
at choked, adj.
[UK] F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 91: None of my business of course, not being the kind of chump who undertook murder investigations.
at chump, n.
[UK] F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 62: A conk or two on the noggin is likely to knock more sense in than out.
at conk, n.1
[UK] F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 59: On no less that three occasions I’d been coshed by underworld experts and [...] each floored me with a single beautifully-aimed blow.
at cosh, v.
[UK] F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 99: Curiosity compelled me to investigate – just as soon as I’d finished my drink, and maybe a half dozen more to give me Dutch courage.
at Dutch courage, n.
[UK] F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 29: I’d not ruled out the possibility that an underworld cracksman had deftly screwed the peter and lifted the family sparklers.
at cracksman, n.1
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