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[Ire] L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 358: Natalie had ripped him a new one: he’d gone to her apartment [...] and come out traumatised.
at tear someone a new asshole, v.
[Ire] L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 260: ‘Ryan didn’t have a father worth a shit’.
at worth a shit under worth a..., phr.
[Ire] L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 232: ‘Tony,’ she said. ‘Come on, now. Get your act together’.
at get one’s act together (v.) under act, n.
[Ire] L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 323: [of local history fans] She asked the anoraks where they were off to next and took three of the five with her.
at anorak, n.
[Ire] L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 323: Jimmy fell back against the wall, hands in his pockets. He put her in mind of a midweek arse-scratcher.
at arse-scratcher (n.) under arse, n.
[Ire] L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 131: up. What was the point in boohooing over some decade-old arseholery.
at arseholery (n.) under arsehole, n.
[Ire] L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 12: [T]hey’d retreat like politicians after a general election, smiling benignly, walking arseways.
at assways (adj.) under ass, n.
[Ire] L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 200: ‘Remember Shitarse from up the country? Luna was the only one who’d take him’.
at shit ass, n.
[Ire] L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 285: As someone who watched his fingers pinch the baggie shut.
at baggie, n.
[Ire] L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 160: [H]er father was then adopted by those same miserable doctrinaires [...] they made a bags of raising him.
at bags, n.1
[Ire] L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 97: [T]he killer wasn’t excited by his crimes because it felt bad to be acting the bollocks.
at ballocks, n.
[Ire] L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 308: She’d ballsed it up. Tried tough love, wanted him to confront the big bad memory. I prescribed whiskey.
at balls up, v.
[Ire] L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 70: ‘You’re giddy as balls’.
at as balls (adv.) under balls, n.
[Ire] L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 177: ‘I made a balls of everything, can we just not [i.e. discuss it], for now?’.
at make a balls of (v.) under balls-up, n.
[Ire] L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 172: She thought I was always a bampot and she was OK with it.
at bampot, n.
[Ire] L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 251: Noreen Cusack [...] a dreadful bat even before she hit forty.
at bat, n.1
[Ire] L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 313: [S]he offered no explanation but a batshit smile.
at batshit, adj.
[Ire] L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 242: [I]n the end that she was the cracked Irish biddy who lived in the middle bedsit on the middle floor.
at biddy, n.2
[Ire] L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 173: Oh yeah, boy, you’d think it’d be psychotic bigwigs behind that shit.
at bigwig, n.
[Ire] L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 330: ‘My son doesn’t tell me anything [...] and doesn’t pay a blind bit of notice to anything I tell him’.
at blind, adj.2
[Ire] L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 170: ‘Mother bloody Jones’.
at bloody, adj.
[Ire] L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 25: For dessert there were bottles of local craft beer – ‘Bogger Bräu’, Davy called it.
at bogger, n.1
[Ire] L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 172: I couldn’t get my hands on any dope and drink just makes me lairy [...] I was bombing it.
at bomb, v.1
[Ire] L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 7: [B]are-chested, bleary-eyed, maybe a small bit bombed.
at bombed, adj.
[Ire] L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 131: up. What was the point in boohooing over some decade-old arseholery.
at boohoo, v.
[Ire] L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 159: Deirdre had given Jimmy the boot years ago.
at give someone the boot (v.) under boot, the, n.
[Ire] L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 145: He’s a bowsie. You don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to work it out.
at bowsie, n.
[Ire] L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 183: ‘Mam, I can’t just land in on top of them going, “I hear yer wan’s boxed, sure I’ll pick up the phones for yeh”’.
at boxed, adj.
[Ire] L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 11: [S]peaking disrespectfully to brickies who made overtures in the Irish clubs.
at brickie, n.
[Ire] L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 167: ‘Diarmaid. Lovely name. He’s the bulb off you’.
at bulb, n.
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