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A Murder is Announced choose

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[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 114: Surely that’s dead as the hills.
at dead as..., adj.
[UK] A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 74: She strikes me as a nasty bit of goods.
at bit of goods, n.
[UK] A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 51: No, it won’t as is the way of those cussed inventions.
at cussed, adj.
[UK] 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.
[UK] A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 160: I told them off, the lazy b----s. Oh, excuse my language.
at language, n.
[UK] 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
[UK] A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 118: Lor! [...] we bored each other to death.
at lor!, excl.
[UK] A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 75: She’s a nice old thing.
at old thing, n.
[UK] A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 71: Rather a tall order.
at tall order (n.) under order, n.
[UK] A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 51: The kind of little patsy thief who might easily lose his nerve.
at patsy, n.1
[UK] A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 152: I’ll push along there now.
at push along (v.) under push, v.
[UK] A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 32: Don’t you despise the old Pussies in this village of yours, my boy?
at pussy, n.
[UK] A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 44: Having appended the word ‘Scatty’ to Dora Bunner.
at scatty, adj.
[UK] A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 11: Oo, scrumptious! [...] There’s going to be a murder at Miss Blacklock’s.
at scrumptious, adj.
[UK] A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 165: I visualized a kind of sob stuff approach.
at sob stuff (n.) under sob, n.1
[UK] A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 153: So stupid being all on the same thingummibob.
at thingumabob, n.
[UK] A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 98: I write tripey books.
at tripey, adj.
[UK] A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 39: I made up my mind that he was definitely a wrong ’un.
at wrong ’un, n.
[UK] A. Christie Murder Is Announced (1958) 103: Think old mother what’sername did?
at whatshisname, n.
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