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[US] W.R. Burnett Dark Hazard (1934) 159: One minute you were piddling along, winning a little, losing a little; then suddenly something hit you; you were a different man; your ‘luck was in’.
at piss about, v.
[US] W.R. Burnett Dark Hazard (1934) 61: Sit down, Turner [...] Don’t be an airedale. Sit down.
at airedale, n.
[US] W.R. Burnett Dark Hazard (1934) 194: Then you won’t be throwing chairs around and drinking booze and acting like a lot of alley cats.
at alley cat, n.
[US] W.R. Burnett Dark Hazard (1934) 201: Just because I wasn’t here and you wasn’t getting any.
at any, n.
[US] W.R. Burnett Dark Hazard (1934) 143: ‘Let’s have another drink’ [...] ‘Here’s looking at you,’ said Jim.
at here’s looking at you!, excl.
[US] W.R. Burnett Dark Hazard (1934) 44: [of a horse] Look at that baby come down the stretch.
at baby, n.
[US] W.R. Burnett Dark Hazard (1934) 7: He worked for Mr. Bright and followed him around like a poodle. Jim thought he was bad medicine.
at bad medicine (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] W.R. Burnett Dark Hazard (1934) 79: You know Marg [...] You’re sure a bearcat at fixing things up. This place is swell.
at bear cat (n.) under bear, n.
[US] W.R. Burnett Dark Hazard (1934) 202: Well, I’ll be damned. No matter what happens, I’m never surprised. But this beats me.
at beat, v.
[US] W.R. Burnett Dark Hazard (1934) 46: If it wasn’t for you we’d eat big till Wednesday then starve the rest of the week.
at big, adv.
[US] W.R. Burnett Dark Hazard (1934) 68: Everything’s blown up [...] I could paper a house with the no-good stock I got.
at blow up, v.1
[US] W.R. Burnett Dark Hazard (1934) 17: Smoke was a blue-gum from lower Georgia.
at blue gum(med), adj.
[US] W.R. Burnett Dark Hazard (1934) 141: Racing will always be on the edge down here. Too many blue-noses and long-hairs.
at bluenose, n.1
[US] W.R. Burnett Dark Hazard (1934) 42: Did you see how he handled them bones? Man! he kin make ’em do eve’thing but talk.
at bones, n.1
[US] W.R. Burnett Dark Hazard (1934) 216: He wanted to make a break for the door.
at make a break for (v.) under break, n.2
[US] W.R. Burnett Dark Hazard (1934) 208: ‘All the business is run by new people. It’s funny.’ ‘It’s the breaks.’.
at break, n.1
[US] W.R. Burnett Dark Hazard (1934) 82: Marg saw her first Indian at Albuquerque — a big fat buck Navaho who was selling beads and trinkets.
at buck, adj.1
[US] W.R. Burnett Dark Hazard (1934) 184: You burn these guys for the price of a ride.
at burn, v.
[US] W.R. Burnett Dark Hazard (1934) 105: Hello, Turner! Been buying yourself a new bus, I see.
at bus, n.2
[US] W.R. Burnett Dark Hazard (1934) 218: He’s been hanging around after Marg ever since I can remember. They had an awful case in high school.
at case, n.1
[US] W.R. Burnett Dark Hazard (1934) 238: Yes sir. I had top kennel at Baden, where they pay real money. I been going like who-shot-the-cat.
at like who shot the cat under cat, n.1
[US] W.R. Burnett Dark Hazard (1934) 3: Fat chance of him ever getting away.
at fat chance, n.
[US] W.R. Burnett Dark Hazard (1934) 67: I seen him clean out Pat Desmond’s faro game in two hours; made him turn the box over.
at clean out, v.
[US] W.R. Burnett Dark Hazard (1934) 150: ‘What’s hot?’ [...] ‘Tulsa Flier. I know the guy that owns him. It’s a clean-up.’.
at clean-up, n.
[US] W.R. Burnett Dark Hazard (1934) 97: ‘How about the girl-friend?’ ‘Don’t mention it. She’ll climb the wall. She shot the works on that dog of hers.’.
at climb (up) the walls (v.) under climb, v.
[US] W.R. Burnett Dark Hazard (1934) 63: ‘The boss thought you would dog it, see?’ Jim thanked his lucky star. He had almost ‘dogged’ it; if it hadn’t been for Bright’s attitude he’d ’ve probably eaten humble pie and asked Bright to get his job back for him.
at dog it, v.1
[US] W.R. Burnett Dark Hazard (1934) 41: ‘Ah be dawg,’ said the little negro.
at I’ll be doggoned! (excl.) under doggone, v.
[US] W.R. Burnett Dark Hazard (1934) 224: Used to be an old-time saloon. Nice place it was, too, before they voted dry.
at dry, adj.1
[US] W.R. Burnett Dark Hazard (1934) 15: I don’t make goo-goo eyes at a lot of morons, then stick ’em up between two chairs and walk on ’em.
at goo-goo eyes, n.
[US] W.R. Burnett Dark Hazard (1934) 48: [He] went around yelling [...] ‘Extra! Extra! Lake Michigan on fire,’ and laughing at all the fall-guys who turned their heads.
at fall guy, n.
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