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An undecipherable part of 'Goldfish' by Raymond Chandler
I've never heard all to the silk, but it must mean "on the level", don't you think?
A silk, in BrE, is a high status lawyer, or Queen's Council, but I don't think that helps. Perhaps Chandler had in ...
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An undecipherable part of 'Goldfish' by Raymond Chandler
Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, ©1950 by Twayne Publishers, has this definition for "silk":
(Especially among loan sharks) Money, especially paper currency.
"That rabbit (...
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