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Enemy to Society 16: ‘And looka here!’ The paragraph he had annotated was in the accounts of real-estate transfers.at look-a-here!, excl.
Enemy to Society 16: ‘And looka here!’ The paragraph he had annotated was in the accounts of real-estate transfers. Enemy to Society 82: You might [...] deplore the fact that your harum-scarum nephew is making ducks and drakes of his fortune.at ducks and drakes, n.1
Enemy to Society 330: I suppose you’d tear right up to him and hang one on him, hey? Yes, you would! In a pig’s eye! Nobody ain’t fergot the rat way you acted last night.at in a pig’s arse! (excl.) under pig’s arse!, excl.
Enemy to Society 179: They’ll win as sure as God made little apples.at sure as God made little (green) apples under sure as..., phr.
Enemy to Society 144: We couldn’t get into Janissary’s house with a crowbar. [...] We’d get a tumble as sure as you’re born.at sure as you’re a foot high under sure as..., phr.
Enemy to Society 155: You dunno how you got in bad with McGump, do you?at get in bad (with) (v.) under bad, adj.
Enemy to Society 210: Come over by the fire, old bag of bones, where you belong.at bag of bones, n.1
Enemy to Society 148: He’s got no fear and would tackle an army with a bean-shooter if somebody told him it was his duty.at bean-shooter, n.1
Enemy to Society 211: Guess you forgot the time Stevey and me ‘beat’ him for that bunch of ‘dough’ on the Mauradriatic.at beat (someone) for (v.) under beat, v.
Enemy to Society 210: A rat bellows mender of a —.at bellows to mend under bellows, n.
Enemy to Society 329: And don’t be acting as if you weren’t used to big money, or else the boy will put it all over you.at big, adj.
Enemy to Society 258: These big guys have all got funny looking relations.at big guy (n.) under big, adj.
Enemy to Society 37: By th’ time you get through slippin’ it to coppers and politicians, you ain’t got much left for your bit.at bit, n.1
Enemy to Society 77: What’s my bit amount to?at bit, n.1
Enemy to Society 37: There ain’t nuthin’ in God’s green world that’s worth doing a ‘bit’ for.at do a/one’s bit (v.) under bit, n.1
Enemy to Society 197: Don’t you know they always bite the hand that feeds them and lick the one that beats them down?at bite the hand that feeds one (v.) under bite, v.
Enemy to Society 294: They had th’ statements he’d nailed [...], they’d publish th’ whole story in th’ papers less’n they let Steve take a walk and let that be th’ blow-off!at blow off, n.2
Enemy to Society 115: If my city editor knew what I’ve passed up, I’d get the blue envelope sure.at blue envelope (v.) under blue, adj.1
Enemy to Society 273: Perhaps he could bluff it out on his appearance, delay the game for the single moment necessary for him to wing his way to the street.at bluff, v.
Enemy to Society 158: Mostly they wore hard-boiled shirts, originally white, creased of bosom, unclean of cuffs.at hard-boiled shirt (n.) under hard-boiled, adj.
Enemy to Society 160: Unaccompanied gentlemen in fur-lined coats and evening dress had been bonanzas to ‘The Gem’ before.at bonanza, n.
Enemy to Society 159: Rats, who was well-named, many declared, being suspected of ‘stooling for the coppers and swearing many a right guy into the boob’.at boob, n.1
Enemy to Society 42: As soon as they finds you’ve got no political pull, the judges and all git very moral; throw the book at you and tell you to add up the sentences in it.at throw the book at (v.) under book, n.
Enemy to Society 60: You’d be like the others then — complaining and yelping [...] when my back’s turned; bootlicking when I condescend to notice them.at bootlick, v.
Enemy to Society 253: For the first few seconds of Van Tromp’s presence in the room, Axtell was too amazed to burst into the violent tirade he had been bottling up until his butt should enter.at bottle up, v.
Enemy to Society 259: Keep your hand on your stick; if the old guy draws a gun or a knife or tries to do anything screwy, brain him!at brain, v.
Enemy to Society 289: ‘I rather fancy we’re done.’ ‘Yes, good and brown,’ echoed Morgenstein. ‘Good and brown.’.at do brown (v.) under brown, adj.2
Enemy to Society 45: Although I did what I know was right still there is that bugaboo, the law, that sent ‘Rag’ to prison.at bugaboo, n.1
Enemy to Society 169: You weren’t going to let a bullet-headed policeman ‘bull’ you into going after me, were you?at bull, v.1
Enemy to Society 211: I don’t throw any ‘bull’ around like some guys I know.at toss the bull around (v.) under bull, n.6
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