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The Maltese Falcon choose

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[US] D. Hammett Maltese Falcon (1965) 384: ‘You know I’m willing to go all the way with you all the time. [...] But I got a hunch you ain’t going all the way with me’.
at go all the way (v.) under all the way, adv.
[US] D. Hammett Maltese Falcon (1965) 326: ‘I have offered you five thousand dollars for— .’ Spade thumped Cairo's wallet with the backs of his fingers and said: ‘There's nothing like five thousand dollars here. You're betting your eyes.
at bet one’s eyes (v.) under bet, v.
[US] D. Hammett Maltese Falcon (1965) 320: Pull a chair around. So Miles got the big one last night?
at get the big one (v.) under big one, n.
[US] D. Hammett Maltese Falcon (1965) 341: ‘I could hang Miles’s killing on him. That’s a hell of a swell system, or will be when I can give somebody else the bump and hang Thursby’s on them’.
at give (someone) the bump (v.) under bump(-off), n.
[US] D. Hammett Maltese Falcon (1965) 405: She’s a tough racket. You can have it for mine.
at you can have it!, excl.
[US] D. Hammett Maltese Falcon (1965) 414: He’ll be tickled pink to persuade himself that anything the punk tells him about it is a lot of chewing-gum.
at chewing gum, n.
[US] D. Hammett Maltese Falcon (1965) 358: ‘You’ll be hearing from Dundy again. Stay dummied up on him and you’ll be all right’.
at dummied up, adj.
[US] D. Hammett Maltese Falcon (1965) 300: Well, don’t dynamite her too much.
at dynamite, v.
[US] D. Hammett Maltese Falcon (1965) 362: ‘And you came to warn me, and because I was busy you got up on your ear and helped this damned Phil Archer stir things up’.
at get (up) on one’s ear (v.) under ear, n.1
[US] D. Hammett Maltese Falcon (1965) 415: Make him lay off me. I’m going to fog him if he keeps it up.
at fog, v.1
[US] D. Hammett Maltese Falcon (1965) 437: You killed Miles and you’re going over for it.
at go over, v.
[US] D. Hammett Maltese Falcon (1965) 407: ‘Hello angel! What’s the good word?. . . . Fine, fine. Hold it. I’ll be out in twenty minutes. . . . Right’.
at what’s the good word?, phr.
[US] D. Hammett Maltese Falcon (1965) 374: Spade asked pleasantly: ‘How long have you been off the gooseberry lay, son?’.
at gooseberry lay (n.) under gooseberry, n.
[US] D. Hammett Maltese Falcon (1965) 332: You’ve got to convince me that [...] you’re not simply fiddling around by guess and by God, hoping it’ll come out somehow all right in the end’.
at by guess and by God under guess, n.
[US] D. Hammett Maltese Falcon (1965) 415: The boy advanced from the doorway [...] The pistol in his hand still hung at his side [...] He said to Spade in a voice cramped by passion: ‘You bastard, get up on your feet and go for your heater!’.
at heater, n.
[US] D. Hammett Maltese Falcon (1965) 412: Next time I tried to put over a fast one they’d stop me so fast I’d swallow my teeth. Hell with that.
at the hell with...! (excl.) under hell, n.
[US] D. Hammett Maltese Falcon (1965) 295: You’ll want to see her anyway: she’s a knockout.
at knockout, n.
[US] D. Hammett Maltese Falcon (1965) 420: Jesus God! Is this the first thing you guys ever stole? You’re a fine lot of lollipops!
at lollipop, n.1
[US] D. Hammett Maltese Falcon (1965) 359: ‘You’ll want sleep if you’ve been standing up under a police-storm all night’.
at police storm (n.) under police, n.
[US] D. Hammett Maltese Falcon (1965) 393: ‘You wouldn’t want the kind of information I could give you, Bryan. It’d poop this gambler’s-revenge-scenario for you’.
at poop, v.3
[US] D. Hammett Maltese Falcon (1965) 302: Tom Polhaus poked his own left breast with a dirty finger. ‘Got him right through the pump — with this.’ He took a fat revolver from his coat-pocket and held it out to Spade.
at pump, n.
[US] D. Hammett Maltese Falcon (1965) 384: ‘You don’t have to kick back on me. You know I’m regular’.
at regular, adj.
[US] D. Hammett Maltese Falcon (1965) 415: The boy said: ‘You bastard, get up and shoot it out if you’ve got the guts. I’ve taken all the riding from you I’m going to take.’.
at riding, n.
[US] D. Hammett Maltese Falcon (1965) 305: ‘Well, what do you want? Talk turkey. Who in hell do you think you are, coming in here trying to rope me?’ .
at rope, v.
[US] D. Hammett Maltese Falcon (1965) 356: ‘That would go over big back on Seventh Avenue. But you’re not in Romeville now. You’re in my burg’ .
at Rum ville, n.
[US] D. Hammett Maltese Falcon (1965) 389: ‘Thursby was Dixie’s bodyguard and he took the run-out with him when Dixie got in wrong with the rest of the boys over some debts’.
at runout, n.
[US] D. Hammett Maltese Falcon (1965) 436: ‘I’m going to send you over. The chances are you’ll get off with life. That means you’ll be out again in twenty years’.
at send over (v.) under send, v.
[US] D. Hammett Maltese Falcon (1965) 384: ‘By God, somebody maced you plenty! [...] Who put the slug to you, Sam?’.
at put the slugs to (v.) under slug, n.2
[US] D. Hammett Maltese Falcon (1965) 395: Spade picked up the telephone and said: ‘Hello. . . . Yes, Sid, it came out all right, thanks. . . . No. . . . Sure. He got snotty but so did I’.
at snotty, adj.
[US] D. Hammett Maltese Falcon (1965) 307: ‘I'm sorry I got up on my hind legs, but you coming in and trying to put the work on me made me nervous’.
at give someone the works (v.) under works, the, n.
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