1946 K. Fearing Big Clock (2002) 158: We’ve drawn a blank so far.at draw a blank (v.) under blank, n.
1946 K. Fearing Big Clock (2002) 100: ‘Listen, this fellow is a human blotter.’ ‘All right, get drunk with him, if you have to.’.at blotter, n.1
1946 K. Fearing Big Clock (2002) 72: When the story breaks, he may go straight to the police.at break, v.2
1946 K. Fearing Big Clock (2002) 150: Of course, without meaning to, I’d cut loose with another raucous laugh.at cut loose, v.
1946 K. Fearing Big Clock (2002) 158: ‘Drop it,’ I said. ‘The assignment is killed.’.at drop it! (excl.) under drop, v.1
1946 K. Fearing Big Clock (2002) 94: After I paid for the 85c. lunch, a gyp, and already I had indigestion.at gyp, n.1
1946 K. Fearing Big Clock (2002) 71: What kind of person would do that, buy a mess like that in some hole-in-the-wall?at hole in the wall, n.
1946 K. Fearing Big Clock (2002) 94: He dropped the first jigger [...] and only finally managed to fill the second one.at jigger, n.3
1946 K. Fearing Big Clock (2002) 103: If we wanted to break it, we’d give it a big play, thirty or forty legmen.at leg man, n.
1946 K. Fearing Big Clock (2002) 65: She’s a part-time Liz, Steve, did I ever tell you that?at lizzie, n.2
1946 K. Fearing Big Clock (2002) 71: Why should you do this? Why do you stick your neck out?at stick one’s neck out (v.) under neck, n.