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Fast and Loose III 199: You got your dose of bread and water as sure as eggs next day.at sure as hogs are made of bacon under sure as..., phr.
Fast and Loose III 199: You got your dose of bread and water as sure as eggs next day. Fast and Loose III 218: Don’t be a blamed fool—what chance have you got? The screws is all round and in them togs too, you’ll never get far. Wot are you bidding for a bashing for?at bashing, n.
Fast and Loose III 45: Say I have been copped, that I am going back to the ‘boat’ (penal servitude), and that I shall be away about three years.at boat, n.1
Fast and Loose III 208: You’ll have to chum with Devas here now that Dellew’s gone.at chum, v.
Fast and Loose III 199: A real darkey-driver, had to do with niggers somewhere, and he kept us at it [...] till we hadn’t an ounce of flesh left amongst the lot of us.at darkie, adj.
Fast and Loose III 199: A real darkey-driver, had to do with niggers somewhere, and he kept us at it [...] till we hadn’t an ounce of flesh left amongst the lot of us. [Ibid.] 218: Keep your eye on the nigger-driver—tell me if you see him nod.at nigger-driver, n.
Fast and Loose III 222: By George! I’ll risk it.at by George! (excl.) under George, n.2
Fast and Loose III 217: It will depend on whether I can elude his eye for long enough the first go-off.at go-off, n.
Fast and Loose (1900) II 301: ‘You cheated me on the train! You thought I was a greenhorn!’ ‘And we find you a Greek — a regular leg.’.at Greek, n.
Fast and Loose III 82: It was a friend of his, who was half-seas over.at half seas over, adj.
Fast and Loose III 158: It’s most vexatious [...] and it puts me in a frightful hole.at hole, n.1
Fast and Loose III 209: Of the fifteen hundred odd visitors to this hotel there ain’t one, I’ll bet you, who’s been fairly sentenced.at hotel, n.
Fast and Loose I 93: Waldo’s is the bank that’s robbed, and Mr. Surtees is the thief. But I can’t run him in.at run in, v.
Fast and Loose III 158: ‘And where is Leon then?’ ‘Back in the stone jug, I expect.’.at stone jug, n.1
Fast and Loose III 225: Which way, now, I wonder! Not that; it leads back to the ‘jug’, I know.at jug, n.1
Fast and Loose (1900) II 301: ‘You cheated me on the train! You thought I was a greenhorn!’ ‘And we find you a Greek — a regular leg.’.at leg, n.
Fast and Loose III 146: Look slippy! the cab’s here.at look slippy! (excl.) under look, v.
Fast and Loose III 208: None of your lazy lubbering tricks. D’ye hear, you Surtees—.at lubbering, adj.
Fast and Loose III 140: Joe Magsman was that evil-looking individual whom Leon had accosted.at magsman, n.
Fast and Loose II 276: Madame Jobard is to send here as soon as they are nicked?at nicked, adj.1
Fast and Loose III 9: He could not but be aware that cards had been introduced after supper. The pigeoning had commenced.at pigeon, v.1
Fast and Loose III 258: ‘Who is in Queer Street?’ asked Horace Wingspur, coming in; ‘I shall be if the governor don’t stump up soon.’.at in Queer Street under Queer Street, n.
Fast and Loose I 73: I’m rather ‘on the scoop’ to-day. We’ve been having such a bit of fun.at on the scoop (adj.) under scoop, n.
Fast and Loose III 199: I’d change places with you for less that that, if we could swindle the screws.at screw, n.1
Fast and Loose III 26: What’s your screw at Walso’s? Three or four hundred a year?at screw, n.1
Fast and Loose III 142: You had better be on the box of the ‘shoful’, and, when he comes to you, drive off.at shoful, n.
Fast and Loose III 177: If everyone went on as Lord Wingspur does we should soon have to shut up shop. [...] money is very tight and hard to get.at shut up (one’s) shop (v.) under shop, n.1
Fast and Loose III 259: I was never so short.at short, adj.1
Fast and Loose III 212: If I am caught, it’ll mean a ‘bashing’ and the ‘slangs’.at slang, n.2
Fast and Loose III 186: The bank may smash.at smash, v.1
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