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Don’t Get Me Wrong choose

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[UK] P. Cheyney Don’t Get Me Wrong (1956) 69: Just if there wasn’t enough trouble knocking about.
at knock about, v.1
[UK] P. Cheyney Don’t Get Me Wrong (1956) 55: I start doin’ a big Sherlock Holmes act. I start a big reconstruction scene which is what the ace detective in the book always does when somethin’ happens. [Ibid.] 89: If somebody wasn’t doin’ a big shadow act on me I’d feel nervous.
at do a/an — act (v.) under act, n.
[UK] P. Cheyney Don’t Get Me Wrong (1956) 70: I could go for you one hundred per cent an’ then plenty.
at and then some!, excl.
[UK] P. Cheyney Don’t Get Me Wrong (1956) 54: Pedro then says oh yeah an’ that she is a so-an’-so liar.
at so-and-so, adj.
[UK] P. Cheyney Don’t Get Me Wrong (1956) 8: I am an Americano who is kickin’ around lookin’ for a ranch that I wanta buy.
at kick around, v.
[UK] P. Cheyney Don’t Get Me Wrong (1956) 7: I tell you that babe was talkin’ plenty sense.
at babe, n.
[UK] P. Cheyney Don’t Get Me Wrong (1956) 43: I reckon the whole gang was [...] listening to this Jamieson guy explain his stuff maybe, when the balloon went up.
at when the balloon goes up under balloon, n.
[UK] P. Cheyney Don’t Get Me Wrong (1956) 30: He has gotta beat on some tough stuff that is happenin’ over the border.
at beat, n.5
[UK] P. Cheyney Don’t Get Me Wrong (1956) 46: Some bozo [...] who can throw a spot of light on all this bezesus.
at bezesus, n.
[UK] P. Cheyney Don’t Get Me Wrong (1956) 34: I wonder in blazes this dame manages to get ice around here.
at blazes, n.
[UK] P. Cheyney Don’t Get Me Wrong (1956) 81: The air hostess, who is one little blonde bundle, and a nifty proposition that I could go for in a very big way indeed.
at bundle, n.1
[UK] P. Cheyney Don’t Get Me Wrong (1956) 16: He busts me a straight one on the puss.
at bust, v.1
[UK] P. Cheyney Don’t Get Me Wrong (1956) 35: I bust outa that jail this afternoon.
at bust out, v.2
[UK] P. Cheyney Don’t Get Me Wrong (1956) 106: When he got to France he would be a first-class mental case an’ no errors.
at case, n.1
[UK] P. Cheyney Don’t Get Me Wrong (1956) 81: I’m not stoppin’ for anythin’ until I get around to Chicago because [...] the next act in this big drama is goin’ to be played out in the Windy City.
at Windy City, n.
[UK] P. Cheyney Don’t Get Me Wrong (1956) 62: I sit there rackin’ my brains to find out some angle for [...] gettin’ her to talk very cold turkey to me.
at talk cold turkey (v.) under cold turkey, adv.
[UK] P. Cheyney Don’t Get Me Wrong (1956) 36: Don’t you get any funny ideas [...] that you can pull a fast one on me an’ try to cross me up.
at cross up (v.) under cross, v.1
[UK] P. Cheyney Don’t Get Me Wrong (1956) 55: Pepper is dead as a cutlet an’ pushin’ up cactus seeds under four feet of desert earth in a wooden box.
at push up (the) daisies, v.
[UK] P. Cheyney Don’t Get Me Wrong (1956) 9: Everybody in this place is a durn liar.
at darn, adj.
[UK] P. Cheyney Don’t Get Me Wrong (1956) 12: They [...] look around with that sorta dead pan look that always comes on to a Mexicano’s puss when he’s goin’ to do a job of work.
at deadpan, adj.
[UK] P. Cheyney Don’t Get Me Wrong (1956) 33: I ease away in the direction behind the house.
at ease, v.2
[UK] P. Cheyney Don’t Get Me Wrong (1956) 38: I hear that you was [...] singin’ at that one-eyed dump.
at one-eyed, adj.
[UK] P. Cheyney Don’t Get Me Wrong (1956) 10: Why don’t yu take your weight off your feet an’ sit down, Fatty.
at fatty, n.1
[UK] P. Cheyney Don’t Get Me Wrong (1956) 7: I would rather four-flush a team of wild alligators outa their lunch-pail.
at four-flush, v.
[UK] P. Cheyney Don’t Get Me Wrong (1956) 49: I start [...] wonderin’ why she pulled that gag on me with the cigarette case.
at pull a gag (v.) under gag, n.
[UK] P. Cheyney Don’t Get Me Wrong (1956) 7: I would rather four-flush a team of wild alligators outa their lunch-pail than try an’ tell a Mexican momma that I was tired of her geography an’ did not wish to play any more.
at geography, n.1
[UK] P. Cheyney Don’t Get Me Wrong (1956) 109: We got him once [...] on a carryin’ concealed weapons charge.
at get, v.
[UK] P. Cheyney Don’t Get Me Wrong (1956) 51: I reckon I have been a bit of a mug sleepin’ in this place [...] with an empty gun. Anybody coulda handed it out to me pronto if they’d wanted to.
at hand it out (v.) under hand, v.
[UK] P. Cheyney Don’t Get Me Wrong (1956) 75: This is where I hand in my dinner pail [...] I sorta feel you boys are goin’ to be rough with me.
at hand in one’s dinner-pail (v.) under hand, v.
[UK] P. Cheyney Don’t Get Me Wrong (1956) 38: She is real Spanish Señora an’ one hundred per cent high hat if you get me.
at high hat, n.
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