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The Brooklyn Murders choose

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[UK] G.D.H. & M. Cole Brooklyn Murders (1933) 73: Walter Brooklyn [...] is a thoroughly bad lot.
at bad lot (n.) under bad, adj.
[UK] G.D.H. & M. Cole Brooklyn Murders (1933) 59: I tell you I’m damned if I’ll stand it.
at I’ll be damned! (excl.) under damn, v.
[UK] G.D.H. & M. Cole Brooklyn Murders (1933) 67: He had been expecting [...] to be confronted with a beauty of the picture post card type, some little bit of fluff from the musical comedy stage.
at bit of fluff (n.) under fluff, n.1
[UK] G.D.H. & M. Cole Brooklyn Murders (1933) 61: I took a taxi to the Piccadilly Theatre, where I saw that young hound, Prinsep.
at hound, n.
[UK] G.D.H. & M. Cole Brooklyn Murders (1933) 12: Don’t disturb a thing. If we’re not careful one of us may get run in for this job.
at job, n.2
[UK] G.D.H. & M. Cole Brooklyn Murders (1933) 5: The rich widow of Cowper, the ‘coffee king’.
at -king, sfx
[UK] G.D.H. & M. Cole Brooklyn Murders (1933) 79: He was certain to be in low water; and she must at once promise to pay all the expenses of the case.
at low tide (n.) under low, adj.
[UK] G.D.H. & M. Cole Brooklyn Murders (1933) 59: See here, inspector, I fail to see that it is any of your business to come nosing about in my affairs.
at nose around (v.) under nose, v.
[UK] G.D.H. & M. Cole Brooklyn Murders (1933) 46: He had run through one big fortune, his wife’s — including all the money left in trust for Miss Cowper.
at run through (v.) under run, v.
[UK] G.D.H. & M. Cole Brooklyn Murders (1933) 46: ‘I should like to know approximately what Sir Vernon is worth.’ ‘Not far short of a million.’ ‘You don’t say so.’.
at you don’t say under say, v.
[UK] G.D.H. & M. Cole Brooklyn Murders (1933) 3: Many of Prinsep’s acquaintances [...] had seen him drink more than enough to put an ordinary man under the table.
at put someone under the table (v.) under under the table, adj.
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