1951 D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 154: I thought he was going to throw a sixer. [Ibid.] 272: I nearly chucked a sixer and didn’t take it at first.at chuck a sixer, v.
1951 D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett (1959) 98: Jimmy Brockett is about as popular with Sadie's mother as a pork chop in a synagogue, but I didn't lose any sleep over it.at as popular as a pork chop at a Jewish wedding under pork chop at a Jewish wedding, phr.
1951 D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 235: I felt as mopey as a wet hen and about four-thirty I called it a day and went off to the club.at mopey as a wet hen, adj.
1951 D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 17: The boy had his ears back for the ten bob I promised him. [...] I followed the kid out of the lounge, slipped him the half-note.at half a note, n.
1951 D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 31: Pearl comes over close to me and starts mucking around. [Ibid.] 192: Since I’d had young Jimmy to interest me, I hadn’t done as much mucking about as before. But I liked a bit of horizontal exercise as much as the next bloke.at muck about, v.
1951 D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 30: I used to knock about with a bloke called Joe Rankin.at knock about, v.1
1951 D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 21: I was thinking about Ziegler and whether my ace would be good enough.at ace, n.
1951 D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 30: It didn’t add up though with what I’d heard about these artists, because though she had come around to have a drink in my flat, I hadn’t even been able to kiss her.at add up, v.
1951 D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 62: When a smart alec called one of my ushers a poofter one night I was into him like a shot. I hit him on the chin and he went stern over appetite.at smart aleck, n.
1951 D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 91: That was all Sir Garnet with me, except that I had the breeze up that Ziegler might do his block.at all Sir Garnet, phr.
1951 D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 46: They were all over him when he started on the oysters.at all over, adj.2
1951 D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 95: Just as I thought, it was all over bar the shouting.at all over bar the shouting, phr.
1951 D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 230: Jerry said that Dubois’ old man had been an amen snorter, but that the kid had gone all atheist.at amen-snorter (n.) under amen, n.
1951 D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 140: What’s up, boss? Fallen out with the trouble and strife?at trouble and strife, n.
1951 D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 34: I liked her when she laughed. I knew then she had me by the short hairs. [Ibid.] 242: I’d have liked to take a poke at him but he had me by the wool.at have someone/something by the short and curlies (v.) under short and curlies, n.
1951 D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 17: That two hundred quid was running me pretty short and here he was trying to get me to raise the ante.at up the ante (v.) under ante, n.
1951 D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 232: He tried to smooth me out, but I wasn’t having any.at not having any, phr.
1951 D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 104: I’d been around, so I stopped and just talked for a bit. But when I tried again she set up a yelp.at have been around, v.
1951 D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 178: I’ve got a good mind to kick your arse.at kick someone’s arse under arse, n.
1951 D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 32: Joe was as mad as a hornet at first when I let slip about Pearl and me.at ...a hornet under mad as..., adj.
1951 D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 28: As soon as I saw the sporting pages in the last papers I was happy as a box of birds.at ...(a box of) birds under happy as..., adj.
1951 D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 227: I’d only seen her about three times in the last four or five years. Mostly, she was cold as a polar bear’s behind.at ...a polar bear’s behind under cold as..., adj.
1951 D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 105: I got as mad as a cut snake then.at ...a cut snake under mad as..., adj.
1951 D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 112: Nine-thirty in the morning saw me as busy as a one-armed man with the itch.at busy as a one-armed paper-hanger (adj.) under busy as..., adj.
1951 D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 11: ‘You don’t look like an Australian but you talk like one.’ ‘Me, not an Aussie?’.at Aussie, n.
1951 D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 11: She was good-looking with blue eyes and fair hair. Most of the pubs had old battle-axes.at battle-axe, n.1
1951 D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 81: I was down ten quid until the last race, when Firefly came home and saved the bacon, and I went home twelve notes up.at save someone’s bacon (v.) under bacon, n.1
1951 D. Stivens Jimmy Brockett 289: Dubois has had the whole box of tricks — high school and university.at whole bag of tricks, the, n.