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The Long Wait choose

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[US] M. Spillane Long Wait (1954) 39: Make like you didn’t know me and was telling somebody all about it.
at make like (a)..., v.
[US] M. Spillane Long Wait (1954) 63: I’m glad I don’t know because if I did you’re just the kind of a guy who could put on an act I’d go for and make me put myself in a jam.
at put on an act (v.) under act, n.
[US] M. Spillane Long Wait (1954) 17: Everyone and his brother knows you and we can’t prove it.
at everybody and his cousin, n.
[US] M. Spillane Long Wait (1954) 80: He got medals in the army fer being a rough apple.
at apple, n.1
[US] M. Spillane Long Wait (1954) 93: They scram. No fooling around. Not if they want to keep their own teeth and noses.
at fool around, v.
[US] M. Spillane Long Wait (1954) 105: The dames they get for waitresses in the joints around here are never too careful who they fool around with.
at fool around, v.
[US] M. Spillane Long Wait (1954) 70: He was pretty burned about it.
at burned (at), adj.
[US] M. Spillane Long Wait (1954) 92: She was usually half in the bag, and this time she had a beaut of a hangover.
at in the bag under bag, n.1
[US] M. Spillane Long Wait (1954) 162: I barrelled the Ford along at a steady seventy.
at barrel, v.2
[US] M. Spillane Long Wait (1954) 148: Said he was going on a bat, only his office called and he had to stay sober to see a couple of men.
at on a bat under bat, n.3
[US] M. Spillane Long Wait (1954) 21: ‘Damn, Johnny,’ he said with his head wagging from side to side, ‘you sure beat all.’.
at beat all (v.) under beat, v.
[US] M. Spillane Long Wait (1954) 92: She was usually half in the bag, and this time she had a beaut of a hangover.
at beaut, n.1
[US] M. Spillane Long Wait (1954) 63: I like them smart and beefed up so they don’t have to wear any padding in their suits.
at beef up (v.) under beef, n.1
[US] M. Spillane Long Wait (1954) 115: I have the wife. Lots of pretty girls before that too, you betcha!
at you bet! (excl.) under bet, v.
[US] M. Spillane Long Wait (1954) 101: He’s talking big and I’ll let him talk big, but by God he’ll be talking mighty small soon.
at talk big (v.) under big, adv.
[US] M. Spillane Long Wait (1954) 169: Things are getting ready to blow, aren’t they?
at blow, v.2
[US] M. Spillane Long Wait (1954) 135: Servo’s going to be in a blue funk when he finds out you aren’t where you can be gotten to easily.
at blue funk (n.) under blue, adj.1
[US] M. Spillane Long Wait (1954) 169: A description followed that was a good one and changed my mind about breezing through town like I was.
at breeze, v.1
[US] M. Spillane Long Wait (1954) 40: I want to know why she became nothing but a beautiful drunken bum.
at bum, n.3
[US] M. Spillane Long Wait (1954) 48: Vera and Johnny worked together until the monkey business in the bank came out.
at monkey business, n.
[US] M. Spillane Long Wait (1954) 70: She gives him the business. Lenny, he likes the treatment so he keeps her around.
at give someone the business (v.) under business, n.
[US] M. Spillane Long Wait (1954) 185: When the bust came Johnny ran to save her neck, not his own!
at bust, n.
[US] M. Spillane Long Wait (1954) 149: He was going to finish getting canned.
at canned, adj.
[US] M. Spillane Long Wait (1954) 33: The town blossomed out in some of the fanciest gambling houses ever seen and the good citizens were caught with their pants down.
at catch someone with their pants down (v.) under catch, v.1
[US] M. Spillane Long Wait (1954) 74: He was sitting there and bang, just like that he caught it.
at catch it (v.) under catch, v.1
[US] M. Spillane Long Wait (1954) 52: The babes Servo makes usually wind up in the cellar.
at in the cellar under cellar, n.
[US] M. Spillane Long Wait (1954) 18: Hell, I had to get in my two cents’ worth. It wouldn’t be any fun if I couldn’t sound off when I felt like it.
at two cents’ worth, n.
[US] M. Spillane Long Wait (1954) 72: It was something I could chew on while a cab hauled me down to the station.
at chew (it) over (v.) under chew, v.
[US] M. Spillane Long Wait (1954) 119: I will, chicken, I will.
at chicken, n.
[US] M. Spillane Long Wait (1954) 138–9: Vera and Lenny Servo [...] were pretty chummy until Vera disappeared.
at chummy, adj.
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