1969 R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 25: Generous to a fault, and if he wasn’t strictly above-board – well, a man had to live.at above board, adj.
1969 R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 99: They wanted to know what I was doing about getting another job and all was serene.at all serene, adj.
1969 R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 62: You can see Charlie did all right for himself.at do all right (for oneself) (v.) under all right, adj.
1969 R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 26: They’d be able to blue some of their own savings on having the flat done up nicely.at blew, v.2
1969 R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 114: What did he want it for, Charlie-bloody-Haton?at bloody, adv.
1969 R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 51: Put your powder in [...] and Bob’s your uncle.at bob’s your uncle, phr.
1969 R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 25: At his age boozing didn’t have much visible effect.at boozing, n.
1969 R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 75: She [...] stopped for a chat and a bit of buttering-up.at butter up (v.) under butter, v.
1969 R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 25: You and me, we look a pair of right Charlies.at charlie, n.4
1969 R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 12: Charlie’s crack could be taken as a compliment.at crack, n.1
1969 R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 10: It’s your bloody head. Take it along to a trick cyclist if it bothers you.at trick cyclist, n.
1969 R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 93: They had a bit of a ding-dong, Mr. and Mrs.at ding-dong, n.5
1969 R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 52: Sure it wasn’t McCloy’s little dropsy for services rendered?at dropsy, n.2
1969 R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 81: He tried to give me the impression his brother-in-law was something of a poor fish.at poor fish (n.) under fish, n.1
1969 R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 116: He was flashing all this money about in the Dragon.at flash, v.1
1969 R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 10: ‘What’re you going to have?’ ‘Not that gnat’s piss, for a start.’.at gnat’s piss (n.) under gnat, n.
1969 R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 178: Charlie told him he wanted hush money out of him.at hush money, n.
1969 R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 139: Will you be mother, Mrs. Fanshawe, do the honours?at be mother (v.) under mother, n.
1969 R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 125: If Carol chose to pop off with her boy friend for a couple of months, she wasn’t one to stand in her way.at pop off, v.1
1969 R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 18: I expect Clytemnestra has spent a penny by now.at spend a penny (v.) under penny, n.
1969 R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 9: If anyone had hinted such Jack would have poked him on the nose.at poke, v.
1969 R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 74: She was a madam, all right, a proper little madam.at proper, adj.
1969 R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 7: Same again, Bill, and have one yourself.at same again (n.) under same, adj.
1969 R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 94: ‘Folks buy new stuff, they don’t want this reconditioned rubbish.’ ‘You can say that again,’ said Wexford.at you can say that again under say, v.
1969 R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 14: It’s a real grand job that record-player [...] Must have set you back a bit.at set someone back (v.) under set, v.