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[US] A. Kirzman Giuliani 173: [T]he companies were flabbergasted by the ask, and rejected the proposal immediately.
at ask, n.
[US] A. Kirzman Giuliani 361: The cast of characters, with their hyperventilating language and sloppy arguments, screamed B-team .
at B-team, n.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] A. Kirzman Giuliani xiv: [M]y phone started blowing up each night after my stories aired.
at blow up, v.2
[US] A. Kirzman Giuliani 79: [A] boozy black-tie charity event filling the Hilton Hotel’s grand ballroom.
at boozy, adj.
[US] 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
[US] A. Kirzman Giuliani 272: ‘He gave an answer that was [...] vague and bullshitty’.
at bullshitty, adj.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] A. Kirzman Giuliani 30: Judge Robert Carter [...] ordering Giuliani to cool it when he went over the top.
at cool it, v.
[US] 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
[US] A. Kirzman Giuliani 11: [T]he almost unheard-of sin of cutting school .
at cut, v.4
[US] A. Kirzman Giuliani 31: [H]e was the real deal, an extraordinarily gifted lawyer and born leader.
at real deal, n.
[US] A. Kirzman Giuliani 29: [C]laiming he had never touched any dirty money.
at dirty, adj.
[US] A. Kirzman Giuliani xvi: He had flamed out as a presidential candidate.
at flame out (v.) under flame, v.1
[US] A. Kirzman Giuliani 219: ‘[W]e fucked with his head’.
at fuck with someone’s head (v.) under fuck with, v.
[US] 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.
[US] A. Kirzman Giuliani 28: [C]orruption and grifters had to be expunged from public service.
at grifter, n.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] A. Kirzman Giuliani 175: His speaking-fee haul in 2002 was estimated at $8 million.
at haul, n.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
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