1950 A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 60: It’s all up with him. And so in blind panic he turns the revolver on himself.at all up with under all up, adj.
1950 A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 66: ‘Ye Gods and Little Fishes,’ said Sir Henry ‘can it be?’.at ye gods (and little fishes)!, excl.
1950 A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 74: She strikes me as a nasty bit of goods.at bit of goods, n.
1950 A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 51: No, it won’t as is the way of those cussed inventions.at cussed, adj.
1950 A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 71: A ‘fall guy,’ if I understand it rightly, means someone who will be blamed for a crime really committed by someone else.at fall guy, n.
1950 A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 160: I told them off, the lazy b----s. Oh, excuse my language.at language, n.
1950 A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 154: We all went to the lou, didn’t we? [...] And I washed my hands.at loo, n.1
1950 A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 118: Lor! [...] we bored each other to death.at lor!, excl.
1950 A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 71: Rather a tall order.at tall order (n.) under order, n.
1950 A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 51: The kind of little patsy thief who might easily lose his nerve.at patsy, n.1
1950 A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 152: I’ll push along there now.at push along (v.) under push, v.
1950 A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 32: Don’t you despise the old Pussies in this village of yours, my boy?at pussy, n.
1950 A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 44: Having appended the word ‘Scatty’ to Dora Bunner.at scatty, adj.
1950 A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 11: Oo, scrumptious! [...] There’s going to be a murder at Miss Blacklock’s.at scrumptious, adj.
1950 A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 165: I visualized a kind of sob stuff approach.at sob stuff (n.) under sob, n.1
1950 A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 153: So stupid being all on the same thingummibob.at thingumabob, n.
1950 A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 39: I made up my mind that he was definitely a wrong ’un.at wrong ’un, n.
1950 A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 103: Think old mother what’sername did?at whatshisname, n.