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The Big Sleep choose

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[US] R. Chandler Big Sleep 101: You’re going to cop a plea, brother, don’t ever think you’re not.
at cop a plea, v.
[US] R. Chandler Big Sleep 122: He pulls the dumb act because he thinks we wouldn’t expect him to pull the dumb play.
at pull a — act (v.) under act, n.
[US] R. Chandler Big Sleep 45: He couldn’t be sure she was too batty to see him.
at batty, adj.1
[US] R. Chandler Big Sleep 185: She was tall rather than short, but no bean-pole.
at beanpole, n.
[US] R. Chandler Big Sleep 164: I think the big boys have told Puss Walgreen to move on.
at big boy, n.
[US] R. Chandler Big Sleep 220: And in a little while he too, like Rusty Regan would be sleeping the big sleep.
at big sleep (n.) under big, adj.
[US] R. Chandler Big Sleep 170: Go ahead and blast and see what it gets you.
at blast, v.1
[US] R. Chandler Big Sleep 30: He [...] straightened up as if somebody had booted him from behind.
at boot, v.1
[US] R. Chandler Big Sleep 16: An ex-bootlegger, who went in the trade by the name of Rusty Regan.
at bootlegger, n.
[US] R. Chandler Big Sleep 83: It’s kind of goddamned lucky for you I didn’t bop Geiger.
at bop, v.
[US] R. Chandler Big Sleep 85: She hates my guts. I bounced her out.
at bounce, v.1
[US] R. Chandler Big Sleep 168: You know the dope on Brody’s bump-off.
at bump(-off), n.
[US] R. Chandler Big Sleep 48: Okey, keep buttoned, kid. No hard feelings.
at buttoned up, adj.
[US] R. Chandler Big Sleep 161: This Regan was a cockeyed sort of buzzard.
at buzzard, n.
[US] R. Chandler Big Sleep 187: He’s whatever looks good to him, whatever has the cabbage pinned to it.
at cabbage, n.2
[US] R. Chandler Big Sleep 83: My God [...] You let this cheese-head sit there and insult me, Joe?
at cheesehead, n.
[US] R. Chandler Big Sleep 170: ‘Go ahead and blast and see what it gets you.’ ‘A Chicago overcoat is what it would get you, little man.’.
at Chicago overcoat (n.) under Chicago, adj.
[US] R. Chandler Big Sleep 160: Go ahead and chirp.
at chirp, v.
[US] R. Chandler Big Sleep 119: He married General Sternmwood’s eldest daughter and [...] they didn’t click.
at click, v.3
[US] R. Chandler Big Sleep 109: I guess these [notes] were just a come-on.
at come-on, n.
[US] R. Chandler Big Sleep 84: Cough up and be sensible.
at cough up, v.
[US] R. Chandler Big Sleep 168: Sure, a guy could sit on his fanny and crab what another guy done if he knows what it’s all about.
at crab, v.
[US] R. Chandler Big Sleep 81: The sucker list I spoke of is in code. I haven’t cracked it yet.
at crack, v.2
[US] R. Chandler Big Sleep 213: She threw a wingding. Looked like a mild epileptic fit to me.
at wing-ding, n.
[US] R. Chandler Big Sleep 127: I hoped that the next grifter who dropped the hook on her would play her a little more smoothly.
at drop the hook on (v.) under drop, v.1
[US] R. Chandler Big Sleep 82: You’re crazy, you godam egg-headed — !
at eggheaded, adj.1
[US] R. Chandler Big Sleep 69: I was having the eye put on me.
at put the eye on (v.) under eye, n.
[US] R. Chandler Big Sleep 107: So all you did was not report a murder [...] and then spend today foxing around so that this kid of Geiger’s could commit a second murder.
at fox around (v.) under fox, n.1
[US] R. Chandler Big Sleep 122: There could be people who would know he was sweet on Eddie Mars’s frau.
at frau, n.
[US] R. Chandler Big Sleep 170: Why should I front for that twist?
at front for (v.) under front, v.2
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