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Diamonds Are Forever choose

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[UK] I. Fleming Diamonds Are Forever (1958) 104: All the ad. men in the world couldn’t have dreamed it up.
at ad, adj.
[UK] I. Fleming Diamonds Are Forever (1958) 161: I’m happy as a cricket [...] I just can’t get over being so happy.
at ...a clam under happy as..., adj.
[UK] I. Fleming Diamonds Are Forever (1958) 106: Don’t think you can ask for a lawyer or the British Consul if you get in bad with the Mob.
at get in bad (with) (v.) under bad, adj.
[UK] I. Fleming Diamonds Are Forever (1958) 100: ‘Shy Smile didn’t pay off.’ ‘I know. The jockey bitched it. So what?’.
at bitch, v.
[UK] I. Fleming Diamonds Are Forever 99: Kidd’s a pretty boy. His friends call him ‘Boofy’. Probably shacks up with Wint.
at boofy, adj.1
[UK] I. Fleming Diamonds Are Forever (1958) 160: It’s twenty Grand for a rub these days, Boy-oh-boy!
at boy!, excl.
[UK] I. Fleming Diamonds Are Forever (1958) 163: Then the place got busted by the gangs.
at bust, v.1
[UK] I. Fleming Diamonds Are Forever (1958) 72: It is possible that there are bust-out gaffs sneaking in farmhouses on back roads.
at bust-out, adj.2
[UK] I. Fleming Diamonds Are Forever (1958) 154: All hell’s going to bust loose when you get to the bottom of that old mine.
at bust loose (v.) under bust, v.1
[UK] I. Fleming Diamonds Are Forever (1958) 112: Legalized cat-shops. Nice set-up.
at cat shop (n.) under cat, n.1
[UK] I. Fleming Diamonds Are Forever (1958) 72: The gambling casinos of Saratoga were never square and anyone who caught a hot hand was measured for a trimming.
at catch, v.1
[UK] I. Fleming Diamonds Are Forever (1958) 94: Aw Cheesus.
at cheese!, excl.
[UK] I. Fleming Diamonds Are Forever (1958) 132: Out, Limey, or your pal’s cold turkey.
at cold turkey, adj.
[UK] I. Fleming Diamonds Are Forever (1958) 145: First thing is to get this crate to Rhyolite.
at crate, n.
[UK] I. Fleming Diamonds Are Forever (1958) 142: We’re going to [...] go on finding out until the guy croaks.
at croak, v.2
[UK] I. Fleming Diamonds Are Forever (1958) 57: You’re a dam fool to be operating alone.
at damn, adj.
[UK] I. Fleming Diamonds Are Forever (1958) 160: Whaddya know, Booful! It’s twenty Grand for a rub these days, Boy-oh-boy!
at what do you know?, phr.
[UK] I. Fleming Diamonds Are Forever (1958) 105: The dealer should have known better that get caught with his duke in the tambourine.
at duke, n.3
[UK] I. Fleming Diamonds Are Forever (1958) 106: These dumps are wired for everything except smell.
at dump, n.3
[UK] I. Fleming Diamonds Are Forever (1958) 29: He’s not a diamond merchant, Sir [...] or I’ll eat my hat.
at eat one’s hat, v.
[UK] I. Fleming Diamonds Are Forever (1958) 102: He knows all the dirt, where the big fixes are.
at fix, n.2
[UK] I. Fleming Diamonds Are Forever (1958) 129: That’s ---ed them proper.
at fuck, v.
[UK] I. Fleming Diamonds Are Forever (1958) 59: Had themselves a gang-bang with Tiffany. She was only sixteen at the time.
at gangbang, n.
[UK] I. Fleming Diamonds Are Forever (1958) 191: He’s a goner now.
at goner, n.1
[UK] I. Fleming Diamonds Are Forever (1958) 100: I’ll wire you a Grand, the Grand you won off of me.
at grand, n.
[UK] I. Fleming Diamonds Are Forever (1958) 154: I used to think your gangsters were just a bunch of Italian greaseballs.
at greaseball, n.
[UK] I. Fleming Diamonds Are Forever (1958) 76: He’s [...] what they call a ‘little habitch’ as opposed to a ‘big habitch’—habitual criminal.
at habitch, n.
[UK] I. Fleming Diamonds Are Forever (1958) 190: Pilot must be getting hell.
at get hell (v.) under hell, n.
[UK] I. Fleming Diamonds Are Forever (1958) 63: You seem to have made quite a hit with Shady this morning.
at make a hit (v.) under hit, n.
[UK] I. Fleming Diamonds Are Forever (1958) 131: Won’t be long, Ernie. Try and stick it.
at stick it, v.
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