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The Secret Adversary choose

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[UK] A. Christie Secret Adversary (1955) 112: You can bet your bottom dollar I do.
at bet one’s bottom dollar (v.) under bet, v.
[UK] A. Christie Secret Adversary (1955) 83: She was just being sent home to some bigwig.
at bigwig, n.
[UK] A. Christie Secret Adversary (1955) 19: Who’s been blabbing? Rita?
at blab, v.
[UK] A. Christie Secret Adversary (1955) 39: The Admiralty rather choked me off, but Scotland Yard were very civil.
at choke off, v.
[UK] A. Christie Secret Adversary (1955) 143: They call it heart failure induced by an overdose, or some such claptrap.
at clap-trap, n.1
[UK] A. Christie Secret Adversary (1955) 89: Oh, Julius, isn’t he just a duck?
at duck, n.1
[UK] A. Christie Secret Adversary (1955) 169: But I wish to God I’d been the one to get it in the neck.
at get it in the neck, v.
[UK] A. Christie Secret Adversary (1955) 140: ‘Holy snakes!’ he ejaculated. ‘is this really you?’.
at holy hell! (excl.) under holy...!, excl.
[UK] A. Christie Secret Adversary (1955) 91: ‘Mrs Vandermeyer is trying to hook it’.
at hook, v.1
[UK] A. Christie Secret Adversary (1955) 103: ‘I guess I’m a mutt,’ said Julius with unusual humility.
at mutt, n.
[UK] A. Christie Secret Adversary (1955) 62: She’s some peach.
at peach, n.1
[UK] A. Christie Secret Adversary (1955) 10: I’ve screwed and saved and pinched!
at screw, v.
[UK] A. Christie Secret Adversary (1955) 7: You always were a shocking liar.
at shocking, adj.
[UK] A. Christie Secret Adversary (1955) 62: She’s a stunner to look at, ain’t she?
at stunner, n.
[UK] A. Christie Secret Adversary (1955) 70: Fancied he might be sweet on the missus, that’s all.
at sweet on (adj.) under sweet, adj.1
[UK] A. Christie Secret Adversary (1955) 26: ‘That’s torn it,’ said Tommy.
at that’s torn it under tear, v.
[UK] A. Christie Secret Adversary (1955) 63: ‘ll fix the whole thing up in two ticks’.
at tick, n.4
[UK] A. Christie Secret Adversary (1955) 189: ‘I thought you’d rather I tolled you back to London’.
at tool, v.
[UK] A. Christie Secret Adversary (1955) 28: ‘That’s Gloucester Road way. Plenty of time to get there if we Tube’.
at tube (it) (v.) under tube, n.1
[UK] A. Christie Secret Adversary (1955) 139: Then I wonder how they twigged me.
at twig, v.2
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