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Thirty-Nine Steps (1930) 7: They’ve gotten the ace up their sleeves [...] and they are going to play it and win.at ace up one’s sleeve (n.) under ace, n.
Thirty-Nine Steps (1930) 7: They’ve gotten the ace up their sleeves [...] and they are going to play it and win. Thirty-Nine Steps (1930) 4: I rather fancied the chap. From all accounts he seemed the one big man in the show; and he played a straight game too.at big, adj.
Thirty-Nine Steps (1930) 56: His face broke into the vacant drunkard’s smile. ‘You’re the billy,’ he cried.at billy, the, n.
Thirty-Nine Steps (1930) 40: His talk of Epirote guards that would skin their own grandmothers was all billy-o.at billy-o, n.
Thirty-Nine Steps (1930) 115: He was exactly the kind of satisfied old bird you will find in every suburb.at old bird, n.
Thirty-Nine Steps (1930) 35: I’ll see that nobody blabs.at blab, v.
Thirty-Nine Steps (1930) 61: He was a sort of blood stockbroker, who did his business by toadying eldest sons and rich young peers and foolish old ladies.at blood, adj.1
Thirty-Nine Steps (1930) 14: I [...] found a couple of bobbies and an inspector busy making an examination.at bobby, n.1
Thirty-Nine Steps (1930) 11: I realized that I was bottled as sure as a pickled herring, and that there was only one way out.at bottled, adj.1
Thirty-Nine Steps (1930) 40: He was booked all right, and was going to hand in his checks on June 14th.at hand in one’s checks (v.) under check, n.1
Thirty-Nine Steps (1930) 40: Karolides’ death would set the Balkans by the ears, and then Vienna would chip in with an ultimatum.at chip in, v.
Thirty-Nine Steps (1930) 45: I’ve got to be at the Masonic hall at eight o’ clock, or my agent will comb my hair.at comb someone’s hair (v.) under comb, v.
Thirty-Nine Steps (1930) 39: (of a Greek) The 15th of June was going to be a day of destiny, bigger destiny than the killing of a Dago.at dago, n.
Thirty-Nine Steps (1930) 13: I woke next morning to hear my man, Paddock, making the deuce of a row at the smoking-room door.at deuce, the, phr.
Thirty-Nine Steps (1930) 72: Those perishers are all down on a poor man.at down (up)on under down, adv.2
Thirty-Nine Steps (1930) 129: ‘Oh, damn,’ said the young man, ‘I thought you had droppped that rot.’.at drop, v.1
Thirty-Nine Steps (1930) 11: When I was left alone, I started to fake up that corpse.at fake, v.1
Thirty-Nine Steps (1930) 72: They can have the money back [...] for a fat lot of good it’s done me.at fat lot (n.) under fat, adj.
Thirty-Nine Steps (1930) 18: I had lied to Paddock about him, and the whole thing looked desperately fishy.at fishy, adj.2
Thirty-Nine Steps (1930) 85: It was a baddish go, and [...] it took me some time to get my legs again.at go, n.1
Thirty-Nine Steps (1930) 74: I thought he probably had some kind of graft with the constabulary.at graft, n.1
Thirty-Nine Steps (1930) 78: My shoulder and arm ached like hell.at like hell (adv.) under hell, n.
Thirty-Nine Steps (1930) 48: He was all for [...] sending Germany an ultimatum telling her to do the same thing or we would knock her into a cocked hat.at knock into a cocked hat (v.) under knock into, v.
Thirty-Nine Steps (1930) 13: I haven’t the privilege of your name, sir, but let me tell you that you’re a white man.at white man, n.
Thirty-Nine Steps (1930) 9: They want a big occasion for the taking off, with eyes of all Europe on it.at take off, v.1
Thirty-Nine Steps (1930) 46: You’re a Free Trader, and can tell our people what a wash-out Protection is in the Colonies.at wash-out, n.
Thirty-Nine Steps (1930) 61: He [...] pattered about his duchesses till the snobbery of the creature turned me sick.at patter, v.
Thirty-Nine Steps (1930) 116: After lunch, as I sat in the hotel porch, I perked up.at perk up, v.
Thirty-Nine Steps (1930) 83: She was a decent old body, and a plucky one.at plucky, adj.
Thirty-Nine Steps (1930) 74: It made me boil with rage to think of those three spies getting the pull on me like this.at get the pull on (v.) under pull, n.
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