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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.
High Window 192: Skip it. I know. Marlowe knows everything – except how to make a decent living. It doesn’t amount to beans. High Window 143: ‘Oh, yes,’ she said. ‘Yes, indeed.’ Leslie was aces. With her.at aces, adj.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
High Window 16: ‘You know I never talk about your affairs, Mrs Murdock,’ she bleated.at bleat, v.
High Window 157: You got back on at six. Shortly after that the boys in blue came bustlin’ in.at boys in blue, n.
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
High Window 41: If he don’t like you, he has guys around that can bounce you.at bounce, v.1
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 on (v.) under bounce, v.1
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.
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.
High Window 99: I met him just the way I told you. He tailed me around and I braced him.at brace, v.
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.
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.
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.
High Window 33: Gertie says Morny took it over from a busted flush named Arthur Blake Popham.at busted flush, n.
High Window 191: Go on out to the kitchen and buy yourself a drink.at buy a drink (v.) under buy, v.
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
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.
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.
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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