2022 A. Kirzman Giuliani 173: [T]he companies were flabbergasted by the ask, and rejected the proposal immediately.at ask, n.
2022 A. Kirzman Giuliani 361: The cast of characters, with their hyperventilating language and sloppy arguments, screamed B-team .at B-team, n.
2022 A. Kirzman Giuliani 182: ‘I wasn’t a politician,’ Kerik said. ‘I wasn’t one of these fucking bean counters’.at bean counter (n.) under bean, n.1
2022 A. Kirzman Giuliani 162: [H]e was out on the streets working as a ‘barker,’ beseeching pedestrians to come meet the candidate. The eager-beaver attitude paid off.at eager beaver, n.
2022 A. Kirzman quoting Houston Chron. 30 Mar. in Giuliani 210: Oxford said he was looking forward to Giuliani showing his firm ‘how it is to play in the bigs’.at big, n.
2022 A. Kirzman Giuliani xiv: [M]y phone started blowing up each night after my stories aired.at blow up, v.2
2022 A. Kirzman Giuliani 79: [A] boozy black-tie charity event filling the Hilton Hotel’s grand ballroom.at boozy, adj.
2022 A. Kirzman Giuliani 79: [A] boozy black-tie charity event filling the Hilton Hotel’s grand ballroom with [...] assorted government hacks and bottom-feeders.at bottom feeder (n.) under bottom, n.3
2022 A. Kirzman Giuliani 272: ‘He gave an answer that was [...] vague and bullshitty’.at bullshitty, adj.
2022 A. Kirzman Giuliani 334: Giuliani joked to the Guardian that he had ‘very, very good insurance’ in case Trump threw him under the bus.at throw (someone) under the bus (v.) under bus, n.2
2022 A. Kirzman Giuliani 132: That his constituents were witnessing this car crash [i.e. a divorce] was of little matter to him.at car crash (n.) under car, n.
2022 A. Kirzman Giuliani 250: Giuliani, so milquetoast in the 2008 race that few could figure out whether he supported or opposed abortion rights and gun control.at Caspar Milquetoast, n.
2022 A. Kirzman Giuliani 220: The famed control freak was delegating more, trusting decisions to consultants he barely knew .at control freak (n.) under control, n.
2022 A. Kirzman Giuliani 30: Judge Robert Carter [...] ordering Giuliani to cool it when he went over the top.at cool it, v.
2022 A. Kirzman Giuliani 30: Podell withdrew his not guilty plea and copped to lesser conflict of interest charges.at cop (out) to (v.) under cop out, v.2
2022 A. Kirzman Giuliani 31: [H]e was the real deal, an extraordinarily gifted lawyer and born leader.at real deal, n.
2022 A. Kirzman Giuliani xvi: He had flamed out as a presidential candidate.at flame out (v.) under flame, v.1
2022 A. Kirzman Giuliani 219: ‘[W]e fucked with his head’.at fuck with someone’s head (v.) under fuck with, v.
2022 A. Kirzman Giuliani 79: Their precinct commander [. . .] dispatched the three to perform buy-and-bust stings. Moran played the customer, while his two partners worked as backup ‘ghosts’ .at ghost, n.
2022 A. Kirzman Giuliani 28: [C]orruption and grifters had to be expunged from public service.at grifter, n.
2022 A. Kirzman Giuliani 25: [H]is political activism consisted of doing grunt work for Long Island political clubs.at grunt work (n.) under grunt, n.
2022 A. Kirzman Giuliani 79: [A] boozy black-tie charity event filling the Hilton Hotel’s grand ballroom with [...] assorted government hacks and bottom-feeders.at hack, n.1
2022 A. Kirzman Giuliani 220: Oxford told him that the campaign needed an aggressive New York communications pro [...] someone who [. . .] could play hardball with reporters.at play hardball (v.) under hardball, n.1
2022 A. Kirzman Giuliani 347: It [...] reduced the event to a giant headache—’a hot mess inside a dumpster fire inside a trainwreck,’ in the words of CNN’s anchor Jake Tapper.at hot mess (n.) under hot, adj.
2022 A. Kirzman Giuliani 190: [T]he rampant disorder in the streets was what got his adrenaline going. [...] But it wasn’t clear that what Iraq needed was an action junkie.at junkie, n.
2022 A. Kirzman quoting NYT 28/07/2000 in Giuliani 108: [Detective] Moran approached Dorismond [...] pretending to be a buyer. ‘Have any krills?’ he asked, using street language for crack.at krill, n.
2022 A. Kirzman Giuliani 273: Lutsenko’s advice was to get the American government to open up an investigation of its own [...] It was a huge lift.at lift, n.