You can slip it into a purse or overcoat pocket.
After the customer had gone (without buying the "Alice, Deanan's visitor — who, of course, was Cosey — pulled out of his overcoat pocket a legal petition written on three pages of age-stained, creased, white foolscap, and said, "I drive a moving van between Baltimore and Boston, and I found this in an old crate we were packing stuff in".
In "In Uncertain Time," for example, we learn that the wife of a soccer star is "one of those women who attracts the attention of her husband or fiance by tugging at his sleeve with two fingers or by slipping her hand into his overcoat pocket, I couldn't explain it any other way, nor should I".
After the customer had gone (without buying the "Alice, Deanan's visitor who, of course, was Cosey pulled out of his overcoat pocket a legal petition written on three pages of age-stained, creased, white foolscap, and said, "I drive a moving van between Baltimore and Boston, and I found this in an old crate we were packing stuff in".
He was described as a "ball of wool that could be carried around in an overcoat pocket".
Wyatt said I "took my pistol, which I had in my hand, under my coat, and put it in my overcoat pocket".
"Merelli thrust it into my overcoat pocket, grabbed me by the shoulders and not only pushed me out of the room but locked the door in my face," Verdi said.
It's still too wide for a blazer pocket, alas, but it's certainly purse-size and overcoat pocketable.
Now, for the first time, complete videotape recording and playback facilities have been encapsuled in a device small enough to be carried in a woman's purse or in an overcoat with capacious pockets.
So he unbuttoned his overcoat, reached in his pocket, and handed her another penny.
