The eighty-five cent dinner tasted like a discarded mail bag and was served to me by a waiter who looked as if he would slug me for a quarter, cut my throat for six bits, and bury me at sea in a barrel of concrete for a dollar and a half, plus sales tax.

Marlowe describes a cheap meal in a waterfront restaurant.

— Philip Marlowe #2 - Farewell, My Lovely (Raymond Chandler, 1940)


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