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Sherlock Holmes 52: She is my own dear little girlie.at girlie, n.
Sherlock Holmes 52: She is my own dear little girlie. His Last Bow in Baring-Gould (1968) II 796: The man waved a small brown-paper parcel triumphantly above his head. ‘You can give me the glad hand to-night, mister,’ he cried. ‘I’m bringin’ home the bacon at last.’.at bring home the bacon (v.) under bacon, n.1
His Last Bow in Baring-Gould (1968) II 799: ‘What about the dough?’ he asked. ‘The what?’ ‘The boodle. The reward. The five hundred pounds.’.at boodle, n.1
His Last Bow in Baring-Gould (1968) II 798: ‘The man was mad.’ [...] ‘It’s enough to make a man bughouse when he has to play a part from mornin’ to night, with a hundred guys all ready to set the coppers wise to him.’.at bughouse, adj.1
His Last Bow in Baring-Gould (1968) II 797: Why, a Yankee crook would be into that with a can-opener. If I’d known that any letter of mine was goin’ to lie loose in a thing like that I’d have been a mutt to write to you at all.at can opener, n.
His Last Bow in Baring-Gould (1968) II 798: ‘The man was mad.’ [...] ‘It’s enough to make a man bughouse when he has to play a part from mornin’ to night, with a hundred guys all ready to set the coppers wise to him.’.at copper, n.
His Last Bow in Baring-Gould (1968) II 798: ‘Do you dare to suggest that I have given away my own agents!’ ‘I don’t stand for that, Mister, but there’s a stool pigeon or a cross somewhere, and it’s up to you to find out where it is.’.at cross, n.1
His Last Bow in Baring-Gould (1968) II 798: It cuts no ice with a British copper to tell him you’re an American citizen.at cut ice (with), v.
His Last Bow in Baring-Gould (1968) II 799: ‘What about the dough?’ he asked. ‘The what?’ ‘The boodle. The reward. The five hundred pounds.’.at dough, n.
His Last Bow in Baring-Gould (1968) II 799: ‘You don’t tell me you keep your papers in that?’ ‘Why not?’ ‘Gosh, in a wide-open contraption like that!’.at gosh!, excl.
His Last Bow in Baring-Gould (1968) II 799: The gunner turned durned nasty at the last, and I had to square him with an extra hundred dollars or it would have been nitsky for you and me.at nitski!, excl.
His Last Bow in Baring-Gould (1968) II 798: ‘Do you dare to suggest that I have given away my own agents!’ ‘I don’t stand for that, Mister, but there’s a stool pigeon or a cross somewhere, and it’s up to you to find out where it is.’.at stool-pigeon, n.1
His Last Bow in Baring-Gould (1968) II 798: ‘What about Steiner?’ ‘Well, they’ve pulled him, that’s all. They raided his store last night, and he and his papers are all in Portsmouth jail.’.at pull, v.
His Last Bow in Baring-Gould (1968) II 798: They raided his store last night, and he and his papers are all in Portsmouth jail. You’ll go off and he, poor devil, will have to stand the racket, and lucky if he gets clear with his life.at stand the racket (v.) under racket, n.1
His Last Bow in Baring-Gould (1968) II 798: ‘I believe they are not far off me.’ ‘You don’t mean that!’ ‘Sure thing.’.at sure thing!, excl.
His Last Bow in Baring-Gould (1968) II 798: I want to get over the water as soon as you do.at water, the, n.
His Last Bow in Baring-Gould (1968) II 797: Well, so was Jack James an American citizen, but he’s doin’ time in Portland all the same.at do time (v.) under time, n.
His Last Bow in Baring-Gould (1968) II 799: It’s cost me two hundred pounds from first to last, so it isn’t likely I’d give it up without gettin’ my wad.at wad, n.1
His Last Bow in Baring-Gould (1968) II 798: ‘The man was mad.’ ‘Well, he went a bit woozy towards the end.’.at woozy, adj.
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