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[US] J.M. Cain Postman Always Rings Twice (1985) 192: When I start to figure, it all goes blooey.
at go blooey (v.) under blooey!, excl.
[US] J.M. Cain Postman Always Rings Twice (1985) 147: What we had the big blow-off over was the beer license.
at blow off, n.1
[US] J.M. Cain Postman Always Rings Twice (1985) 158: Let’s let Goebel keep those bughouse cats for their board.
at bughouse, adj.2
[US] J.M. Cain Postman Always Rings Twice (1985) 87: I told a bum story first.
at bum, adj.
[US] J.M. Cain Postman Always Rings Twice (1985) 134: That was when I burned Sackett. I got up and made a speech to the court.
at burn, v.
[US] J.M. Cain Postman Always Rings Twice (1985) 13: A guy came along that was all burned up because somebody had pasted a sticker on his wind wing.
at burned up, adj.
[US] J.M. Cain Postman Always Rings Twice (1985) 16: But he was dumb, and kept crabbing.
at crab, v.
[US] J.M. Cain Postman Always Rings Twice (1985) 24: Her arms were round me before I even cut the lights.
at cut, v.4
[US] J.M. Cain Postman Always Rings Twice (1985) 173: It don’t cost me a thing to make you dance on air. And that’s what you’re going to do. Dance, dance, dance.
at dance on/in (the) air (v.) under dance, v.
[US] J.M. Cain Postman Always Rings Twice (1985) 56: The docs never saw a fracture like it.
at doc, n.
[US] J.M. Cain Postman Always Rings Twice (1985) 131: He’s my gumshoe man now. She thought she was talking to a dick, but she really was talking to a dummy.
at dummy, n.1
[US] J.M. Cain Postman Always Rings Twice (1985) 92: I’m in dutch all right.
at in Dutch under Dutch, n.1
[US] J.M. Cain Postman Always Rings Twice (1985) 61: It was the worst flop of a home-coming you ever saw in your life.
at flop, n.4
[US] J.M. Cain Postman Always Rings Twice (1985) 108: He kind of got to you, hey?
at get to, v.
[US] J.M. Cain Postman Always Rings Twice (1985) 53: I was plenty blue around the gills.
at green about the gills (adj.) under gills, n.1
[US] J.M. Cain Postman Always Rings Twice (1985) 71: By golly. Is swell.
at by golly! (excl.) under golly!, excl.
[US] J.M. Cain Postman Always Rings Twice (1985) 25: I was working in a hash house.
at hash-house, n.
[US] J.M. Cain Postman Always Rings Twice (1985) 18: They got neon signs. They show up better, and they don’t burn as much juice.
at juice, n.1
[US] J.M. Cain Postman Always Rings Twice (1985) 19: Swell. That’ll knock them for a loop.
at knock for a loop (v.) under knock, v.
[US] J.M. Cain Postman Always Rings Twice (1985) 170: Next time I try to act smart, will you hang one on my jaw?
at hang one on (v.) under one, n.1
[US] J.M. Cain Postman Always Rings Twice (1985) 97: If I hadn’t been there, and begun promoting him for something to drink.
at promote, v.
[US] J.M. Cain Postman Always Rings Twice (1985) 126: He was giving me the razz, because he had a perfect case.
at give someone the razz (v.) under razz, n.
[US] J.M. Cain Postman Always Rings Twice (1985) 157: These Californian and Mexican things are just scrubs compared to them.
at scrub, n.1
[US] J.M. Cain Postman Always Rings Twice (1985) 56: Maybe she treat you snotty.
at snotty, adv.
[US] J.M. Cain Postman Always Rings Twice (1985) 143: Have a drink. You’ll feel better. That’s what Sackett said when he put the spot on me, the louse.
at put on the spot (v.) under spot, n.3
[US] J.M. Cain Postman Always Rings Twice (1985) 93: Sure, I was drunk. I was stinko.
at stinko, adj.
[US] J.M. Cain Postman Always Rings Twice (1985) 117: That guy Katz, he’s nothing but a cop’s stool.
at stool, n.
[US] J.M. Cain Postman Always Rings Twice (1985) 190: I’m getting up tight now. [Ibid.] 192: I’m up awful tight, now. I think they give you dope in the grub, so you don’t think about it.
at uptight, adj.2
[US] J.M. Cain Mildred Pierce (1985) 501: It’s nothing but the do-re-mi – the old army game.
at army game (n.) under army, n.2
[US] J.M. Cain Mildred Pierce (1985) 481: He told Mildred she was ‘smart’, and probably knew where she was coming out.
at where one is at, phr.
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