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[UK] P. Cheyney Dames Don’t Care (1960) 115: One thing is stickin’ out a foot an’ that is that Henrietta found out that the original bonds [...] was gone.
at stick out like a sore thumb, v.
[UK] P. Cheyney Dames Don’t Care (1960) 46: Nobody gave a durn about whether granworth Aymes committed suicide or not.
at not give a damn, v.
[UK] P. Cheyney Dames Don’t Care (1960) 53: A pompadour that woulda made Marie Antoinette look like a big cheese.
at -a, sfx
[UK] P. Cheyney Dames Don’t Care (1960) 83: I wonder if Mr Lemuel H. Caution, the ace ‘G’ man, is going to do a forlorn woman a good turn ace, in cards.
at ace, adj.
[UK] P. Cheyney Dames Don’t Care (1960) 92: She was aces high with Granworth.
at ace-high, adj.
[UK] P. Cheyney Dames Don’t Care (1960) 33: The way she has her hair done is aces. It is swell.
at aces, adj.
[UK] P. Cheyney Dames Don’t Care (1960) 46: If I was you I’d come across. Slip me the works.
at come across, v.
[UK] P. Cheyney Dames Don’t Care (1960) 183: He has been pullin’ an act on Henrietta that if he don’t marry her he can make things plenty hot for her.
at pull an act (v.) under act, n.
[UK] P. Cheyney Dames Don’t Care (1960) 8: I got him hired at the Miranda House [...] but he was so lousy they gave him the air.
at give someone the air (v.) under air, n.
[UK] P. Cheyney Dames Don’t Care (1960) 106: He could get married to some film star for a coupla months before she got sick of ante-ing up all the time to keep his palooka in hair-oil.
at ante (up), v.
[UK] P. Cheyney Dames Don’t Care (1960) 79: Her pa wanted her to get hitched to some young bible-student who was kickin’ about the place.
at kick around, v.
[UK] P. Cheyney Dames Don’t Care (1960) 118: Then Paulette discovers that Benito is sick as a rat.
at …a (poisoned) rat (adj.) under sick as…, adj.
[UK] P. Cheyney Dames Don’t Care (1960) 130: That old battle-axe started tellin’ me that some boy had spotted me.
at battle-axe, n.1
[UK] P. Cheyney Dames Don’t Care (1960) 91: I have only gotta go for her an’ I am right in the front row with bells on.
at with bells on under bell, n.1
[UK] P. Cheyney Dames Don’t Care (1960) 7: Say, this town is the berries.
at berries, the, n.1
[UK] P. Cheyney Dames Don’t Care (1960) 64: You can betcha sweet an’ holy life that some guy will be busy startin’ a big lion hunt just to show her what a swell guy he is.
at bet one’s (sweet) life (v.) under bet, v.
[UK] P. Cheyney Dames Don’t Care (1960) 7: ‘Say, this town is the berries.’ ‘You betcha.’.
at you bet! (excl.) under bet, v.
[UK] P. Cheyney Dames Don’t Care (1960) 60: ‘Swell, Langdon. Okie-doke. An’ I play it the way we said.’ [...] ‘You bet your life.’.
at (you) bet your life! (excl.) under bet, v.
[UK] P. Cheyney Dames Don’t Care (1960) 64: While I am flying back to Palm Springs I think out how I am goin’ to handle this bezusus.
at bezesus, n.
[UK] P. Cheyney Dames Don’t Care (1960) 33: He makes himself out to be the big guy.
at big guy (n.) under big, adj.
[UK] P. Cheyney Dames Don’t Care (1960) 99: I reckon she’ll blow the works on anything if she thinks that talkin’ is goin’ to help her any.
at blow, v.1
[UK] P. Cheyney Dames Don’t Care (1960) 68: Well, bozos [...] here I am again.
at bozo, n.1
[UK] P. Cheyney Dames Don’t Care (1960) 64: Just how Henrietta is breakin’ wit these guys out at the Hacienda, I do not know.
at break, v.2
[UK] P. Cheyney Dames Don’t Care (1960) 126: I said it was pretty tough for me being sick to think she was running around with a guy who had swindled me. Well, that broke her up. I reckon she was sorry.
at break up, v.
[UK] P. Cheyney Dames Don’t Care (1960) 67: He speaks good English but he’s a lousy breed. His mother was a dago and his father was something else that smelt funny.
at breed, n.
[UK] P. Cheyney Dames Don’t Care (1960) 33: This dame has got what it takes — an’ then a bundle!
at bundle, n.1
[UK] P. Cheyney Dames Don’t Care (1960) 13: She [...] looks like she could bite a snake’s head off. She’s permanently burned up.
at burned up, adj.
[UK] P. Cheyney Dames Don’t Care (1960) 107: I reckon he ain’ so pleased with my bustin’ in like this.
at bust in (v.) under bust, v.1
[UK] P. Cheyney Dames Don’t Care (1960) 13: There’s all sorts of janes bust around here.
at bust around (v.) under bust, v.1
[UK] P. Cheyney Dames Don’t Care (1960) 15: In about two minutes I’ve got the lock open as good as any professional buster-in coulda done it.
at buster-in, n.
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