1953 ‘Curt Cannon’ ‘The Death of Me’ in I Like ’Em Tough (1958) 98: ‘You’re holding the aces,’ I said. ‘In spades.’.at hold aces (v.) under ace, n.
1953 ‘Curt Cannon’ ‘Now Die In It’ in I Like ’Em Tough (1958) 57: She was the original fiddler who didn’t know his bass from his oboe..at not know one’s arse/ass from... (v.) under arse, n.
1953 ‘Curt Cannon’ ‘Good and Dead’ in I Like ’Em Tough (1958) 77: Who gives a rat’s backside?at give a rat’s ass (v.) under rat’s ass, n.
1953 ‘Curt Cannon’ ‘The Death of Me’ in I Like ’Em Tough (1958) 121: She was peeling for the baldies.at baldy, n.
1953 ‘Curt Cannon’ ‘Die Hard’ I Like ’Em Tough (1958) 20: One junkie more or less doesn’t mean beans to a pusher.at bean, n.1
1953 ‘Curt Cannon’ ‘Die Hard’ in I Like ’Em Tough (1958) 9: That’s the beauty of a perpetual bender. You know just when you’ve had all you can hold, and you go on from there.at bender, n.2
1953 ‘Curt Cannon’ ‘The Death of Me’ in I Like ’Em Tough (1958) 97: He comes in with a roll that could choke a horse.at big enough to choke a bull (adj.) under big, adj.
1953 ‘Curt Cannon’ ‘The Death of Me’ in I Like ’Em Tough (1958) 97: Close to three bills [...] That’s a nice chunk of lettuce.at bill, n.3
1953 ‘Curt Cannon’ ‘The Death of Me’ in I Like ’Em Tough (1958) 100: I don’t want any part of a blast job.at blast, v.1
1953 ‘Curt Cannon’ ‘Now Die In It’ in I Like ’Em Tough (1958) 56: She’d come into the Dewdrop as a blind.at blind, n.1
1953 ‘Curt Cannon’ ‘The Death of Me’ in I Like ’Em Tough (1958) 115: She might have been on the runway of a burley house.at burley, n.1
1953 ‘Curt Cannon’ ‘Dead Men Don’t Drink’ in I Like ’Em Tough (1958) 38: Take me to the cheese [...] The head punk.at cheese, the, n.
1953 ‘Curt Cannon’ ‘The Death of Me’ in I Like ’Em Tough (1958) 101: He’s working for a Chi syndicate.at Chi, n.
1953 ‘Curt Cannon’ ‘Good and Dead’ in I Like ’Em Tough (1958) 76: Chink was waiting for me [...] It was rumoured that he originally came from Shanghai and that he could speak twelve Chinese dialects.at Chink, n.
1953 ‘Curt Cannon’ ‘Die Hard’ I Like ’Em Tough (1958) 18: This monkey, chum, he’s scratching hell out of . . . at chum, n.
1953 ‘Curt Cannon’ ‘The Death of Me’ in I Like ’Em Tough (1958) 97: Close to three bills [...] That’s a nice chunk of lettuce.at chunk, n.1
1953 ‘Curt Cannon’ ‘The Death of Me’ in I Like ’Em Tough (1958) 119: I went to the Hotel Green, the West Forty-seventh Street crackerbox that held Buck Grafton.at crackerbox (n.) under cracker, n.4
1953 ‘Curt Cannon’ ‘Dead Men Don’t Drink’ in I Like ’Em Tough (1958) 39: He ain’t gonna cut this nohow [...] He ain’t gonna cut this at all.at cut it, v.3
1953 ‘Curt Cannon’ ‘The Death of Me’ in I Like ’Em Tough (1958) 106: I took a room in a dump three blocks away.at dump, n.3
1953 ‘Curt Cannon’ ‘Die Hard’ in I Like ’Em Tough (1958) 17: ‘Where’s Jerry D’Alessio,’ I asked. She shrugged. ‘Hopped to the ears, probably.’.at …to the ears under ear, n.1
1953 ‘Curt Cannon’ ‘Dead Men Don’t Drink’ in I Like ’Em Tough (1958) 35: I’m not a real eye any more.at eye, n.
1953 ‘Curt Cannon’ ‘Die Hard’ in I Like ’Em Tough (1958) 24: You’ve flipped your cork, Cannon.at flip one’s cork (v.) under flip, v.4
1953 ‘Curt Cannon’ ‘Dead Men Don’t Drink’ in I Like ’Em Tough (1958) 33: There are times when you can play footsie, and there are times when you automatically sense that a man is dangerous.at play footsie(s) (v.) under footsie-footsie, n.
1953 ‘Curt Cannon’ ‘Die Hard’ in I Like ’Em Tough (1958) 24: Shake the monkey? Like fun.at like fun!, excl.
1953 ‘Curt Cannon’ ‘The Death of Me’ in I Like ’Em Tough (1958) 100: Was the pin-striped gunsel one of your boys?at gonsel, n.
1953 ‘Curt Cannon’ ‘Die Hard’ in I Like ’Em Tough (1958) 23: ‘The goods, he said, ‘The goods. Honest.’.at goods, n.
1953 ‘Curt Cannon’ ‘Now Die In It’ in I Like ’Em Tough (1958) 45: The gorilla’s name was Rudy [...] a guy I’d know [sic] long ago.at gorilla, n.1
1953 ‘Curt Cannon’ ‘Die Hard’ in I Like ’Em Tough (1958) 17: Maybe Edith got tired of things she had to do [...] Maybe she had it right up to here.at have had it up to here (v.) under have had it, v.
1953 ‘Curt Cannon’ ‘Die Hard’ I Like ’Em Tough (1958) 17: Sniff out the hoss, and you’ll find Jerry standing there with his spoon.at horse, n.
1953 ‘Curt Cannon’ ‘Die Hard’ in I Like ’Em Tough (1958) 23: ‘Junior, I’m not kidding.’.at junior, n.