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The Harder They Fall choose

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[US] B. Schulberg Harder They Fall (1971) 168: Acosta hadn’t been told that Coombs was set to make like a swan.
at make like (a)..., v.
[US] B. Schulberg Harder They Fall (1971) 131: Broadway in the a.m., caught up in the restless, over-stimulated going-and-coming.
at a.m., n.
[US] B. Schulberg Harder They Fall (1971) 161: Know what this house cost me [...] six thousand dollars a year for this unspeakable abortion.
at abortion, n.
[US] B. Schulberg Harder They Fall (1971) 114: I can alibi a loss here and there.
at alibi (up), v.
[US] B. Schulberg Harder They Fall (1971) 145: Danny and George were still running easily, but Toro was all in.
at all in, adj.
[US] B. Schulberg Harder They Fall (1971) 216: The amber? [...] I haven’t got enough troubles? Why, my ulcer is havin’ ulcers!
at amber, n.
[US] B. Schulberg Harder They Fall (1971) 14: He picks up some down-and-outer or some new kid from the amateurs.
at down-and-outer, n.
[US] B. Schulberg Harder They Fall (1971) 14: He picks up [...] some new kid from the amateurs and he angles a spot or two for him.
at angle, v.
[US] B. Schulberg Harder They Fall (1971) 174: A wise apple. But he didn’t bother me.
at wise apple (n.) under apple, n.1
[US] B. Schulberg Harder They Fall (1971) 246: Some old pug [...] put the arm on him for a sawbuck or two.
at put the arm on (v.) under arm, n.
[US] B. Schulberg Harder They Fall (1971) 14: Picking up a quiet C by arranging for one of his dive-artists to do an el foldo. [Ibid.] 205: This some tank artist, this Jones.
at -artist, sfx
[US] B. Schulberg Harder They Fall (1971) 141: Stein was pistol-hot, so I thought we might as well cut ourselves in on some of his publicity.
at ...a (three-dollar) pistol under hot as..., adj.
[US] B. Schulberg Harder They Fall (1971) 34: Maybe I never went to college, but I can sure in hell add better ’n you.
at sure as hell under sure as..., phr.
[US] B. Schulberg Harder They Fall 231: Three months ago your ass was hanging out.
at have one’s ass hanging (out) under ass, n.
[US] B. Schulberg Harder They Fall (1971) 205: Attaboy, cut him down to your size!
at attaboy!, excl.
[US] B. Schulberg Harder They Fall (1971) 12: Old Joe Roundheels [...] who had just been put away in two overs.
at put away, v.
[US] B. Schulberg Harder They Fall (1971) 175: Dingy bars with raucous juke-boxes and blousy B-girls.
at B-girl, n.
[US] B. Schulberg Harder They Fall (1971) 83: [man to man] Keep talking, baby [...] You’re talking us into a hatful of dough.
at baby, n.
[US] B. Schulberg Harder They Fall (1971) 124: So what you’ll really be is a barker for a . . . circus freak.
at barker, n.1
[US] B. Schulberg Harder They Fall (1971) 221: It beats the hell outa me.
at beats me! (excl.) under beat, v.
[US] B. Schulberg Harder They Fall (1971) 90: Vince clapped his beefy hands to his big mouth.
at beefy (adj.) under beef, n.1
[US] B. Schulberg Harder They Fall (1971) 87: He could take a good stiff belt without quitting.
at belt, n.
[US] B. Schulberg Harder They Fall (1971) 104: It was an effort for him to make polite conversation until he had the first couple under his belt.
at under one’s belt under belt, n.
[US] B. Schulberg Harder They Fall (1971) 89: An old master chased around the ring, easy to hit [...] finally belted out.
at belt out (v.) under belt, v.
[US] B. Schulberg Harder They Fall (1971) 141: I think George was getting the best of it, at that.
at get the best of it (v.) under best (of it), n.
[US] B. Schulberg Harder They Fall (1971) 256: Dis guy’s a big dealer [...] He’s got a car, it looks like they put wheels on a speed-boat.
at big deal, n.
[US] B. Schulberg Harder They Fall (1971) 11: Not a nine-dollar bill like Golden Boy — no violinists with brittle hands, no undigested poetry.
at nine-dollar bill, n.
[US] B. Schulberg Harder They Fall (1971) 10: Grifters, chisellers, two-bit gamblers, big-time operators with small-time minds.
at two-bit, adj.
[US] B. Schulberg Harder They Fall (1971) 113: They’d rather make four bits and crack somebody’s skull than make a legitimate buck.
at four bits (n.) under bit, n.1
[US] B. Schulberg Harder They Fall (1971) 242: So this is the . . . blow-off?
at blow off, n.2
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