1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 89: Johnny Sharp stopped me and said, ‘Brought home the bacon?’.at bring home the bacon (v.) under bacon, n.1
1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 183: They decided to do some detection off their own bat.at off one’s own bat (adv.) under bat, n.2
1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 167: ‘Gaw blank my blank eyes! It’s a crowd of blank blank kids!’ – the blanks stand for unsavoury language with which the censor would not allow me to sully my page.at blank, adj.
1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 165: They were to go on blazing away, while he himself got in again by the skylight.at blaze away (v.) under blaze, v.2
1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 34: ‘Look yurr,’ he said, ‘was it by any chance you little blighters who broke into my yard this morning?’.at blighter, n.
1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 15: I’d better try to describe this pair of blisters.at blister, n.1
1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 83: The Officers of the Court then had to restrain Nick from knocking the Prune’s block off.at knock someone’s block off (v.) under block, n.1
1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 66: Whether it comes from reading all his own stock of Bloods, or what, I don’t know. But he’s got a delusion that he’s Sherlock Holmes.at blood, n.1
1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 121: What the blue blazes is all this?at what the blue blazes! (excl.) under blue, adj.5
1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 50: Once you let a woman into a thing, they always wanted to boss it.at boss, v.
1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 49: And the final touch was a brainwave from Peter Butts.at brainwave (n.) under brain, n.1
1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 34: Ted had gone a bit pale [...] with that great bruiser glaring down at him.at bruiser, n.
1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 123: If you were a natural crook like Sharp you’d bump off your grandmother for 6d.at bump (off), v.
1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 23: The Prune buzzed a half-brick at Ted. I should have said we’d made a strict rule against throwing stones during our battles.at buzz, v.3
1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 33: We were just about to buzz, when the yard door opened again.at buzz, v.1
1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 58: Ted was against this. He said it was too like chizzing.at chiz, v.
1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 48: Me sing in the streets? Come off it, Ted!at come off it! (excl.) under come off, v.1
1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 63: The cheap-jack fellow’s voice conked out altogether, so startled was he by this intrusion.at conk (out), v.
1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 140: And just so that you can cool your silly little heads for a bit, I’m going to lock the door at the bottom of the stairs when I go out.at cool, v.2
1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 167: ‘Stick ’em up, the lot of you!’ he said. ‘It’s a cop!’.at cop, n.1
1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 112: A simple, ordinary coin of the realm, vulgarly known as half a crack or a demi-dollar.at crack, n.5
1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 35: Burglars do often make a reconnaissance before they actually crack a crib.at crack a crib (v.) under crib, n.1
1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 153: ‘Crikey! The Black Market!’ exclaimed Ted.at crikey!, excl.
1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 60: ‘Well, I’ll be damned!’ exclaimed Rickie.at I’ll be damned! (excl.) under damn, v.
1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 65: Dash it all, we got that bob for you.at dash it (all)! (excl.) under dash, v.1
1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 114: ‘Kindly do me the favour of dropping down dead,’ Toppy replied.at drop dead!, excl.
1948 C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident 116: ‘We’ll put the Prune to the question’ [...] ‘Yeah. Third-degree him,’ said Nick.at third degree, v.