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The Lady in the Lake choose

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[US] R. Chandler Lady in the Lake (1952) 222: Fell asleep a couple of hours ago. I was drunk as a skunk, I guess.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[US] R. Chandler Lady in the Lake (1952) 23: All right [...] Out you go. Take the air.
at take the air (v.) under air, n.
[US] R. Chandler Lady in the Lake (1952) 130: Cripes, that means everything will be all balled up.
at balled-up, adj.
[US] R. Chandler Lady in the Lake (1952) 9: On the wall there was a huge tinted photo of an elderly party with a chiselled beak and whiskers and a wing collar.
at beak, n.2
[US] R. Chandler Lady in the Lake (1952) 20: He was a nice piece of beef, but to me that was all he was.
at beef, n.1
[US] R. Chandler Lady in the Lake (1952) 92: The San Berdoo D.A. will likely want to talk to you.
at Berdoo, n.
[US] R. Chandler Lady in the Lake (1952) 210: Usually the bim tries to give her boyfriend a bit more alibi than that.
at bimbo, n.
[US] R. Chandler Lady in the Lake (1952) 30: He looks like an easy man to bite.
at bite, v.
[US] R. Chandler Lady in the Lake (1952) 153: Pull over, or we’ll blast a hole in you!
at blast, v.1
[US] R. Chandler Lady in the Lake (1952) 184: He might be a muddy-faced boozer [...] The police think he’s a murderer too.
at boozer, n.
[US] R. Chandler Lady in the Lake (1952) 107: In a number of chairs old boys were snoozing peacefully.
at old boy, n.
[US] R. Chandler Lady in the Lake (1952) 13: He would have been tickled pink to stick it into me and break it off.
at break it off in, v.
[US] R. Chandler Lady in the Lake (1952) 164: You mean you want me to breeze on out.
at breeze, v.1
[US] R. Chandler Lady in the Lake (1952) 21: I know what that wire says, but it’s the bunk.
at bunk, n.2
[US] R. Chandler Lady in the Lake (1952) 167: Hi, Cap, I got a little murder down here cluttering up the front-room.
at cap, n.1
[US] R. Chandler Lady in the Lake (1952) 13: The man is nothing but a professional chaser.
at chaser, n.1
[US] R. Chandler Lady in the Lake (1952) 56: I got drunk and stayed with a chippy.
at chippie, n.1
[US] R. Chandler Lady in the Lake (1952) 22: Go climb up your thumb, wise guy.
at go climb up your thumb! (excl.) under climb, v.
[US] R. Chandler Lady in the Lake (1952) 30: Come on, talk it up. Unless you want to ride down to the clubhouse and sweat it out under the bright lights.
at clubhouse (n.) under club, n.
[US] R. Chandler Lady in the Lake (1952) 216: You covered the girl up. You were in love with her still.
at cover up, v.
[US] R. Chandler Lady in the Lake (1952) 11: Damn it all [...] I liked it. I liked it fine.
at damn it!, excl.
[US] R. Chandler Lady in the Lake (1952) 23: I’ve had enough of your third degree tripe.
at third degree, n.
[US] R. Chandler Lady in the Lake (1952) 83: ‘When you get tired of it, let me know. I’ll have something else.’ ‘I’ll just be doggone sure you will.’.
at doggone, adv.
[US] R. Chandler Lady in the Lake (1952) 144: ‘Just what do you mean by a dope doctor, Mr Grayson?’ ‘I mean a docor whose practice is largely with people who are living on the raw edge of nervous collapse, from drink and dissipation. People who have to be given sedatives and narcotics all the time. The stage comes when an ethical physician refuses to treat them any more [...] But not the Dr Almores. They will keep on as long as [...] the patient remains alive and reasonably sane, even if he or she becomes a hopeless addict in the process.
at dope doctor (n.) under dope, n.1
[US] R. Chandler Lady in the Lake (1952) 184: That frozen-faced little drip — what is she to me?
at drip, n.
[US] R. Chandler Lady in the Lake (1952) 5: Perfumes in little pastel phials tied with ducky satin bows.
at ducky, adj.
[US] R. Chandler Lady in the Lake (1952) 89: The egg-headed clerk separated me from two dollars without even looking at me.
at eggheaded, adj.2
[US] R. Chandler Lady in the Lake (1952) 84: This town’s fair bulgin’ at the seams.
at fair, adv.
[US] R. Chandler Lady in the Lake (1952) 120: Almore finished her off and then he and Condy between them bought a fix.
at fix, n.2
[US] R. Chandler Lady in the Lake (1952) 13: He would have been tickled pink to stick it into me and break it off that he had got my wife to run away with him and leave me flat.
at flat, adj.3
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