1934 D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 139: What I may have said and done, when I was ill, don’t matter a hill of beans.at hill of beans, a, phr.
1934 D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 123: You mustn’t quarrel with your bread and butter, Superintendent.at quarrel with (one’s) bread and butter (v.) under bread and butter, n.1
1934 D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 302: ‘My wife and children – are they safe?’ ‘Safe as houses, Will.’.at ...houses under safe as..., adj.
1934 D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 90: And I can put away quite a lot of beer in a good cause.at put away, v.
1934 D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 99: He was a bad ’un was Jeff, though even now, poor Mary won’t hear a word against him.at bad ’un (n.) under bad, adj.
1934 D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 244: He found he’d bagged a Tommy in uniform with all his kit.at bag, v.
1934 D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 57: They had some sort of dispute with the Minister about their Good Friday beanfeast.at beanfeast (n.) under bean, n.1
1934 D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 182: What a beetle-headed cuckoo I am!at beetle-head (n.) under beetle, n.1
1934 D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 110: On the day of the funeral it rained like billy-oh!at like billy-o (adv.) under billy-o, n.
1934 D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 151: These girls are very bird-witted.at bird-witted (adj.) under bird, n.1
1934 D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 250: Mr. Paul Bleeding Taylor and Mr. Batty Thomas! Bells, if you please!at bleeding, adj.
1934 D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 248: He got a vertical breeze up every time he thought of that dead warder and the chap he’d thrown down the hole.at get the breeze up (v.) under breeze, n.1
1934 D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 178: And there were so many teeth gone and busted from the corpse that we’ve not got much out of that.at busted, adj.1
1934 D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 227: I might make a guess, but I won’t. I’ll buy it. What was the name?at buy, v.
1934 D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 98: I’ve heard as there’s a reglar party comin’ from St. Stephen in Jack Brownlow’s sharrer.at chara, n.1
1934 D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 244: He wrote me a letter [...] Sent it to the old crib, and it was forwarded on.at crib, n.1
1934 D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 121: I don’t believe myself that Mrs. Wilbraham would ever have cut up so rough if it weren’t for the things Mr. Edward said to her.at cut up rough, v.
1934 D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 57: You want a few more daffs. on the decani side, Mrs. Venables.at daff, n.1
1934 D.L. Sayers The Nine Tailors (1984) 265: It’s a damnable business, the whole thing.at damnable, adj.
1934 D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 27: ‘Dash it all!’ said Wimsey.at dash it (all)! (excl.) under dash, v.1
1934 D.L. Sayers Nine Tailors (1984) 50: I shouldn’t care for the sluice-keeper’s job – dashed lonely, I should think.at dashed, adv.