The "lowdown" is the practice of currying favor by spending money on someone. Boz's character has a girl whom he has bought things for in order to get sex (the old schoolboy game) and the (sad truth behind the gifts). She, however, is running around telling people what's going on, and it's embarassing to him that she is exposing his mode of operation. "who gave her the big idea" that she should go around and tell everyone his business.
Boz tells the guy "there's nothing you can't handle, nothing you ain't got" so as to encourage him not to play this game but just to "turn on the love light" so that her "maybe" will turn into a "yes." But since he's been playing this "schoolboy game" he's in a "mess."
He tells the man further that "he doesn;t have to be so bad, or so cold"; that he could just use an approach that isn't a dirty secret. Boz wonders, "who taught him how to think like that" and he tells everyone "watch out for that dirty lowdown."
The "lowdown" is the practice of currying favor by spending money on someone. Boz's character has a girl whom he has bought things for in order to get sex (the old schoolboy game) and the (sad truth behind the gifts). She, however, is running around telling people what's going on, and it's embarassing to him that she is exposing his mode of operation. "who gave her the big idea" that she should go around and tell everyone his business.
Boz tells the guy "there's nothing you can't handle, nothing you ain't got" so as to encourage him not to play this game but just to "turn on the love light" so that her "maybe" will turn into a "yes." But since he's been playing this "schoolboy game" he's in a "mess."
He tells the man further that "he doesn;t have to be so bad, or so cold"; that he could just use an approach that isn't a dirty secret. Boz wonders, "who taught him how to think like that" and he tells everyone "watch out for that dirty lowdown."