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[US] R. Chandler High Window 192: Skip it. I know. Marlowe knows everything – except how to make a decent living. It doesn’t amount to beans.
at hill of beans, a, phr.
[US] R. Chandler High Window 143: ‘Oh, yes,’ she said. ‘Yes, indeed.’ Leslie was aces. With her.
at aces, adj.
[US] R. Chandler High Window 215: ‘Last night—’ she said, and stopped and coloured. ‘Let’s use a little of the old acid,’ I said. ‘Last night you told me you killed Vannier and then you told me you didn’t.’.
at acid, n.2
[US] R. Chandler High Window 182: ‘Oh, Alex – darling – don’t say such awful things.’ ‘Early Lillian Gish,’ Morny said. ‘Very early Lillian Gish. Skip the agony, Toots.’.
at agony, n.
[US] R. Chandler High Window (1964) 365: Was sapped with something hard before being shot. Likely with a gun butt. All that mean anything to you boys and girls?
at boys and girls, n.
[US] R. Chandler High Window 184: The girl said quietly: ‘You’re going to turn me in?’ [...] ‘Yes, angel, I am going to turn you in.’.
at angel, n.
[US] R. Chandler High Window 195: I made a mistake calling you in the first place. That was my dislike of being played for a sucker, as you would say, by a hard-boiled little animal like Linda.
at animal, n.1
[US] R. Chandler High Window 128: Morny will sure as hell kill him, if he doesn’t lay off Lois.
at sure as hell under sure as..., phr.
[US] R. Chandler High Window (1964) 425: Too late to mention it now. They’d eat my ass off.
at eat someone’s ass off/out under ass, n.
[US] R. Chandler High Window 90: I hear how in Noo York they got elevators that just whiz [...] Must take a good man to run them fast babies.
at baby, n.
[US] R. Chandler High Window 208: Then Mr Vannier breezed on home, still rather annoyed [...] but with the satisfaction of a good afternoon’s work under his vest.
at under one’s belt under belt, n.
[US] R. Chandler High Window 195: Merle’s at my apartment,’ I said. ‘She threw an ing-bing.’ Without looking up she said: ‘And just what is an ing-bing.’ [...] ‘A case of the vapours, they used to call it,’ I said.
at ing-bing, n.
[US] R. Chandler High Window 126: ‘And what gives me the right to talk to you at all?’ I said. ‘I’ll bite. What does?’.
at bite, v.
[US] R. Chandler High Window 16: ‘You know I never talk about your affairs, Mrs Murdock,’ she bleated.
at bleat, v.
[US] R. Chandler High Window 157: You got back on at six. Shortly after that the boys in blue came bustlin’ in.
at boys in blue, n.
[US] R. Chandler High Window (1951) 159: A smoking stand from a cut-rate drug-store, a standing lamp from the basement of some borax emporium.
at borax, n.1
[US] R. Chandler High Window 41: If he don’t like you, he has guys around that can bounce you.
at bounce, v.1
[US] R. Chandler High Window 99: I thought Passmore might tell me something about him [...] that he wouldn’t be likely to tell me if he knew the cops were going to bounce in on him in a brief space of time.
at bounce in (v.) under bounce, v.1
[US] R. Chandler High Window 213: ‘I’m going the way I always go,’ I said. ‘With an airy smile and a quick flip of the wrist. And with a deep and heartfelt hope that I won’t be seeing you in the fishbowl. Good night.’.
at fish-bowl, n.
[US] R. Chandler High Window 155: If I went down to headquarters and told the boys everything you have told me, they would laugh in my face. And I would be laughing with them.
at boys, the, n.
[US] R. Chandler High Window 99: I met him just the way I told you. He tailed me around and I braced him.
at brace, v.
[US] R. Chandler High Window 21: [I] patted the little Negro on the head again. ‘Brother, it’s even worse than I expected,’ I told him.
at brother, n.
[US] R. Chandler High Window 149: Anyway in the night, bang, Hench is bugs. So they drag him over to the hospital ward and shoot him full of hop. The jail doc. does.
at bugs, adj.
[US] R. Chandler High Window 151: He drags Phillips into the bathroom and gives him the business with his own gun.
at give someone the business (v.) under business, n.
[US] R. Chandler High Window 33: Gertie says Morny took it over from a busted flush named Arthur Blake Popham.
at busted flush, n.
[US] R. Chandler High Window 191: Go on out to the kitchen and buy yourself a drink.
at buy a drink (v.) under buy, v.
[US] R. Chandler High Window 99: With people like Passmore and apartment houses like that one, it pays to be a little on the cagey side.
at cagey, adj.1
[US] R. Chandler High Window 105: ‘It ain’t a lot worse than lots of business personals,’ Breeze said. ‘It don’t seem to be aimed at the carriage trade.’.
at carriage trade, n.
[US] R. Chandler High Window 134: Even if I had the legal right to stay clammed-up – refuse to talk – and got away with it once, that would be the end of my business.
at clammed (up), adj.
[US] R. Chandler High Window (1951) 60: Out of the apartment houses come [...] fly cops with granite faces and unwavering eyes; cokies and coke peddlers.
at cokie, n.
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