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Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 219: Blane would drop around and raise the ante on him.at up the ante (v.) under ante, n.
Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 219: Blane would drop around and raise the ante on him. Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 15: Easy now [...] This isn’t the time to pull the artillery.at artillery, n.
Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 116: Across the street from it [i.e. a hotel] was a beer joint and a car was parked in front of that.at beer joint (n.) under beer, n.
Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 199: I didn’t have any idea of getting tough in the first place except just the routine big mouth.at bigmouth, n.
Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 90: She was a tall old bird with a chin like a rabbit.at bird, n.1
Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 27: A bogus heartiness, as weak as a Chinaman’s tea, moved into her face and voice.at bogus, adj.
Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 190: A plain-clothes man with his coat off and his hog’s leg looking like a fire plug against his ribs took one eye off his evening paper, bonged a spittoon ten feet away from him.at bong, v.1
Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 166: The kind of bossy knock that makes you want to open the door, emit the succulent raspberry and slam it again.at bossy, adj.
Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 22: H.P.D. means Hotel Protective Department, which is the department of a large agency that looks after cheque bouncers and people who move out [...] leaving unpaid bills.at bouncer, n.2
Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 163: Amthor’s a pretty ruthless sort of lad [...] But I don’t somehow see him as the brain guy of a jewel mob.at brain, n.1
Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 214: It was a bum idea I had anyway [...] They’ll tear you to pieces out there.at bum, adj.
Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 154: The buzzer [...] won’t buy you anything tonight.at buy, v.
Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 14: Where you figure I been them eight years I said about? [...] In the caboose.at caboose, n.
Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 41: Number one parked on the other side of the street and acted kind of cagey.at cagey, adj.1
Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 39: ‘You are Philip Marlowe, a private detective?’ ‘Check.’.at check!, excl.
Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 210: The three couples began to chew each other’s faces as soon as we left the shore.at chew someone’s face (v.) under chew, v.
Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 171: ‘I like smooth shiny girls, hard-boiled and loaded with sin.’ ‘They take you to the cleaners.’.at take to the cleaners (v.) under cleaners, n.
Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 13: How long’s this coop been a dinge joint?at coop, n.1
Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 35: We got a wire from the Oregon State pen on him [...] All time served except his copper.at copper, n.
Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 55: On the highway the lights of the streaming cars made an almost solid beam in both directions. The big corn-poppers were rolling north growling as they went and festooned all over with green and yellow overhang lights.at cornpopper (n.) under corn, n.1
Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 69: I think you’re still woozy from that crack on the head.at crack, n.1
Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 203: I crocked the orderly with a bed spring.at crock, v.
Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 209: A male cutie with henna’d hair drooped at a bungalow grand piano and tickled the keys lasciviously.at cutie, n.1
Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 12: Kind of take your goddamned mitt off my shirt.at god-damned, adj.
Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 58: Shut up, you damwit.at damwit, n.
Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 9: You say this here is a dinge joint? [Ibid.] 13: How long’s this coop been a dinge joint?at dinge joint (n.) under dinge, adj.
Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 176: ‘This Dr Sonderberg — what did he look like?’ ‘Like a doper, and probably a dope peddler.’.at doper, n.1
Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 222: The crew doubles in brass up on the play decks, table men and spotters and waiters and so on.at double in brass (v.) under double, v.1
Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 190: They all had the well-fed stomachs, the careful eyes, the nice clothes and the reach-me-down manners.at reach-me-down, adj.
Farewell, My Lovely (1949) 167: I took another drag on the cigarette.at drag, n.1
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