Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Quotation search

Date

 to 

Country

Author

Source Title

Source from Bibliography

Murder in the Mews choose

Quotation Text

[UK] A. Christie Murder in the Mews (1954) 115: People do shoot themselves when they’re a bit balmy.
at balmy, adj.
[UK] A. Christie Murder in the Mews (1954) 59: A wary old bird like me.
at old bird, n.
[UK] A. Christie Murder in the Mews (1954) 78: Mayfield is too old a bird to fall for her wiles.
at bird, n.1
[UK] A. Christie Murder in the Mews (1954) 181: When it comes to brass tacks the dressed-up trollops win hands down!
at get down to brass tacks (v.) under brass tacks, n.
[UK] A. Christie Murder in the Mews (1954) 67: I thought you were too much of an old John Bull to put your trust in a Frenchman.
at John Bull, n.1
[UK] A. Christie Murder in the Mews (1954) 55: Upon my word, you take the cake!
at take the cake, v.
[UK] A. Christie Murder in the Mews (1954) 44: ‘Who are you, I’d like to know’ [...] ‘Some kind of damned dago!’.
at dago, n.
[UK] A. Christie Murder in the Mews (1954) 74: M. Poirot seems determined to make you out a gay dog.
at dog, n.2
[UK] A. Christie Murder in the Mews (1954) 40: Bit of a stuffed fish [...] And a boiled owl.
at fish, n.1
[UK] A. Christie Murder in the Mews (1954) 61: Bit of a fluke that it came off.
at fluke, n.2
[UK] A. Christie Murder in the Mews (1954) 25: Gone a bit gaga as they say.
at gaga, adj.
[UK] A. Christie Murder in the Mews (1954) 42: What brings such a big gun as a chief inspector to see me. Anything to do with my car?
at big gun (n.) under gun, n.1
[UK] A. Christie Murder in the Mews (1954) 30: Bit hairy at the heel. Definitely not out of the top drawer.
at hair about the heels under hair, n.
[UK] A. Christie Murder in the Mews (1954) 62: The woman lays it on with a palette-knife.
at lay it on, v.
[UK] A. Christie Murder in the Mews (1954) 36: I always thought it was the little grey cells of the brain.
at little grey cells (n.) under little, adj.
[UK] A. Christie Murder in the Mews (1954) 114: She mugs up historical stuff for writers.
at mug (up), v.2
[UK] A. Christie Murder in the Mews (1954) 35: Like the double-dyed mutt I must be, I couldn’t find anything.
at mutt, n.
[UK] A. Christie Murder in the Mews (1954) 41: Pretty heartless piece of goods. Gone off to play golf.
at piece of goods (n.) under piece, n.
[UK] A. Christie Murder in the Mews (1954) 44: Now then, put that in your pipe and smoke it.
at put that in your pipe (and smoke it)! (excl.) under pipe, n.1
[UK] A. Christie Murder in the Mews (1954) 25: Potty [...] Absolutely potty.
at potty, adj.1
[UK] A. Christie Murder in the Mews (1954) 39: I am utterly at sea. Barbara! Murdered!
at all at sea (adj.) under sea, n.
no more results