c.1943 J. McNulty ‘This Place on Third Avenue’ in This Place on Third Avenue (2001) 3: This place is a saloon [...] It isn’t tough like some of the buckets-of-blood along the avenue.at bloody bucket (n.) under bloody, adj.
a.1946 J. McNulty ‘Some Nights when Nothing Happens’ This Place on Third Avenue (2001) 4: Johnny, one of the hackmen outside, put the whole thing in a nutshell.at hack, n.1