(1) You don't know dick about thisu2014you haven't a clue!

(2) She's the English version of a hard-boiled dick , tougher than most all her country's male detectives, public or private.

(3) Williams agrees and Kelso becomes a private dick , trying to work out the details of the murder and to free Williams, for whom he has developed a good bit of respect and admiration.

(4) The image of a private dick gazing out his office window, a Lucky in one and a stiff drink in the other, is nearly a cliche.

(5) Our city's private dicks are mostly double-dipping police pensioners.

(6) Set in Los Angeles, the show follows the tradition of the hardboiled dicks portrayed by Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, James Cain, Ross McDonald.