1934 L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 114: I run myself ragged getting all dolled up in a clean shirt and a shave. But does she come? In a pig’s eye, she does!at in a pig’s arse! (excl.) under pig’s arse!, excl.
1934 L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 28: You hold out your hands and take your cut. But the minute things start getting tough you want to ‘drag arse’ out.at drag ass, v.
1934 L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 114: You bellyachers gripe me.at belly-acher (n.) under bellyache, v.
1934 L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 30: The doc swings some weight with the ‘Big Fellow’; that’s how he got this job.at big man (n.) under big, adj.
1934 L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 36: Some of the men started yelling and throwing their plates in the air. The P.K. came along and hauled them off to the ‘bing’.at bing, n.2
1934 L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 77: I’ll speak to the warden about you and have you ‘bugged,’ feller!at bug, v.6
1934 L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 125: He skinned his hands against the damp concrete of his cage.at cage, n.
1934 L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 99: From mouth to mouth it had spread ‘crush out!’ ‘Lucci got away’.at crush out, n.
1934 L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 131: From the warden down, all these bastards give a damn about is to see that no one ‘crushes out’.at crush out, v.
1934 L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 42: He minced off, passing a manicured hand through his marcelled hair. Michaels waved his hand after him, la-de-da fashion.at la-di-da(h), adj.
1934 L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 57: You sure swing a mean ‘headache stick,’ don’t you, dep?at dep, n.
1934 L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 111: You should have let me dust him off, boss.at dust (off) (v.) under dust, v.1
1934 L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 43: He thought, what a break, after all those fish-faced dames we had as nurses.at fish-faced, adj.
1934 L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 68: Get him transferred to the prison ‘farm’ up at Greenkill for convalescence.at farm, n.1
1934 L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 62: He was simply fit to be tied. The more he screamed and raved at them, the more they laughed.at fit to be tied under fit to..., phr.
1934 L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 29: It ain’t often we get a nifty piece of fluff like that around.at fluff, n.1
1934 L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 114: What the hell can a ‘gee’ do when he ain’t been stayed with in years?at gee, n.3
1934 L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 80: The gladiators ignored his sarcasm and allowed themselves to be led away in silence.at gladiator school, n.
1934 L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 9: That’s just ‘Gloomy Gus’s’ way of putting you in your place.at gloomy gus, n.
1934 L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 64: Why, that hussy has become the worst gonsil in the place.at gonsel, n.
1934 L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 57: You sure swing a mean ‘headache stick,’ don’t you, dep?at headache-stick (n.) under headache, n.
1934 L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 62: Broadway Rose was transferred back, from the hospital. Of course, Lester her ‘husband’ was simply overjoyed to see ‘her’!at husband, n.
1934 L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 123: To the inmates they [correction cells] were known variously as the ‘bing,’ [...] ‘ice box’ and ‘cooler’.at icebox, n.
1934 L. Berg Prison Nurse (1964) 28: You’re in this up to your neck. You’re standing for it.at in, adv.