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Convenient, the door being open when you didn't have a key, eh?
— The Big Sleep · 1946
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker remarks, with a sceptical 'eh?', that it was handy for the door to be open when the person addressed had no key. The words insinuate that the convenience is suspicious and invite an explanation, though they stop short of saying outright what is suspected.
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