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Too Many Crooks 61: In almost every well-planned professional murder the getaway car is followed by another automobile, the ‘crash car,’ which has only one purpose: to block off or delay pursuit.at getaway, n.
Too Many Crooks 61: In almost every well-planned professional murder the getaway car is followed by another automobile, the ‘crash car,’ which has only one purpose: to block off or delay pursuit. Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 139: It had checked out A 1, none other than the Jodpur diamond, on the missing list since the 1920s.at A-1, adj.
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 171: There was nothing new in Scotland Yard hacks knocking back a few with the chaps.at few, a, n.
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 146: Glenys and me are getting along like peaches and cream.at like a..., phr.
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 121: I knew the Williams brothers by sight, having seen them around the West End rubbadubs and shpielers.at rub-a-dub, n.2
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 68: The kidnapping had gone off a treat: bang crash wallop, and the girl was in the car and gone.at treat, a, adv.
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 18: If I tumble yuh bin muckin’ me about [...] me an’ Drummer ain’t gonna pay yuh anuvva visit an’ ’ave yuh guts for garters.at muck about, v.
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 109: Nothing, sweet Fanny Adams, not a sausage.at sweet Fanny Adams, n.
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 187: I wasn’t sure what game she was playing but it did cross my mind that she might be stringing the old girl along.at string (along), v.
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 127: I gazed at the amber liquid with a frown.at amber fluid (n.) under amber, adj.
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 121: I’ll betcha ain’t even got the bottle.at bottle (and glass), n.
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 36: A geezer is entitled to get Mozart and Liszt an’ ’ave a giggle nar an’ agin, ain’t ’e?at Brahms (and Liszt), adj.
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 78: Poking my nose in where it doesn’t belong is the way I earn my bread and butter.at bread and butter, n.1
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 115: At night it became a den of vice thronged with venereal short-time hookers, black-leather-jacketed, sadie-maisie, ginger beers.at sadie (and) maisie, n.
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 210: I told yuh to get ’ere at five o’clock and put the arm on Otto.at put the arm on (v.) under arm, n.
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 110: The wrong ‘uns that’ve crossed my path lately would give a dedicated social worker a pain in the arse.at give someone a pain in the arse (v.) under pain in the arse, n.
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 7: Dead as a nail in a coffin, Inspector. [Ibid.] 19: Louie was as dead as yesterday’s newspapers.at dead as..., adj.
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 60: Drunk as David’s sow, I ambled into the saloon bar of an obscure West End pub called the Rat and Handbag.at drunk as David’s sow, adj.
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 206: She was flanked by Glenys, lookin her usual sexy hardarsed self and a man I’d never seen before.at hard-ass, adj.
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 103: It don’t make no odds to me if I plug yuh where yuh stand and ’ave it away wiv the lolly.at have it away (with), v.1
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 17: He remembered that I owed him one for the time he saved my bacon.at save someone’s bacon (v.) under bacon, n.1
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 218: I waited expectantly for the air to turn blue with women’s lib ball-breaking invective.at ball-breaking, adj.
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 18: Yuh bound ter make a balls up of it, Ed.at balls-up, n.
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 212: Things got ballsed up a bit when Maltese Tony toed it.at ballsed-up, adj.
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 159: This dump is driving me bananas.at drive bananas (v.) under bananas, adj.
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 113: I won’t give the time of day to gas-meter bandits.at -bandit, sfx
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 168: Banged up on remand in Brixton.at banged up, adj.2
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 118: The dump was banged up tighter than a pawn-broker’s till.at banged up, adj.2
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 159: I got out of the office fast, tumbled into my trusty 1100 and batted off to Paddington.at bat, v.
Too Many Crooks Spoil the Caper 155: The gem belongs to her by rights – her dad left it to her in his Beecham’s.at Beecham’s pill, n.
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