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The Little Sister choose

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[US] R. Chandler Little Sister 207: I’m not worth a plugged nickel to anybody.
at not worth a plugged nickel, phr.
[US] R. Chandler Little Sister 74: Sometimes I do not give a good goddamn.
at not give a good goddam, v.
[US] R. Chandler Little Sister 161: Nothing I could discuss on this telephone, amigo.
at amigo, n.
[US] R. Chandler Little Sister 87: ‘In a pig’s valise,’ Alfred said.
at in a pig’s arse! (excl.) under pig’s arse!, excl.
[US] R. Chandler Little Sister 178: How much longer we have to barber around with this monkey?
at barber, v.
[US] R. Chandler Little Sister 60: Some of those old ladies [...] go big for the nicer angles of murder.
at go big (v.) under big, adv.
[US] R. Chandler Little Sister 109: Sit down and rest your ankles, big stuff.
at big stuff (n.) under big, adj.
[US] R. Chandler Little Sister 123: Receipt of which you acknowledge on the copy of this letter. Blah, blah, blah.
at blah, blah, blah under blah, v.
[US] R. Chandler Little Sister 80: An evening with the sports page, the blatting of the radio.
at blat, v.
[US] R. Chandler Little Sister 62: He don’t have the [...] personality to bounce cheques.
at bounce, v.2
[US] R. Chandler Little Sister 68: Maybe I get tossed in the fish-bowl.
at fish-bowl, n.
[US] R. Chandler Little Sister 27: A couple of boys to take care of you.
at boy, n.3
[US] R. Chandler Little Sister 180: They’ll [...] line them up for the camera boys after they pull the raid.
at boys, the, n.
[US] R. Chandler Little Sister 119: The Krauts cleaned most of it out. Our brass got the rest.
at brass, n.1
[US] R. Chandler Little Sister 65: Take the dough and breeze.
at breeze, v.1
[US] R. Chandler Little Sister 32: You ain’t getting no place with that breezy manner.
at breezy, adj.1
[US] R. Chandler Little Sister 61: A bright boy doesn’t lay open that easy.
at bright boy (n.) under bright, adj.3
[US] R. Chandler Little Sister 5: The call houses that specialize in sixteen-year-old virgins.
at call house, n.
[US] R. Chandler Little Sister 82: The chipper, hard-eyed car-hops.
at carhop, n.
[US] R. Chandler Little Sister 134: ‘Nasty little scenes. They don’t mean a thing.’ ‘Cat talk.’.
at cat, n.1
[US] R. Chandler Little Sister 83: [She] chisels me down to a shopworn twenty to find her brother.
at chisel, v.
[US] R. Chandler Little Sister 23: You could leave the skiv with Clausen.
at chiv, n.1
[US] R. Chandler Little Sister 103: I hope to Christ this doesn’t mean Sunny Moe Stein’s mob have started in business again.
at to Christ under Christ, n.
[US] R. Chandler Little Sister 90: Five Cs clean. Okay?
at clean, adj.
[US] R. Chandler Little Sister 74: Muy guapo tambien. Con cojones.
at cojones, n.
[US] R. Chandler Little Sister 145: All the neurotic types that can’t take it [i.e. life] cold.
at cold, adj.
[US] R. Chandler Little Sister 112: Cough up, mug, cough up.
at cough up, v.
[US] R. Chandler Little Sister 219: This bird hasn’t cracked wise yet.
at crack wise, v.
[US] R. Chandler Little Sister 33: Nothing to get cute about.
at cute, adj.
[US] R. Chandler Little Sister 95: ‘That’s just dandy,’ I said.
at dandy, adj.
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