2024 R. Sullivan Devil’s Best Trick 229: [I]n the hope that some idiot like me would blow a tire or break an axle and turn himself into a sitting duck.at sitting duck, n.
2024 R. Sullivan Devil’s Best Trick 204: ‘[T]hen we got close and said, “Okay, I’m out of here”.’.at out of here, phr.
2024 R. Sullivan Devil’s Best Trick 34: There were a lot of jokes about the old man robbing the cradle. Jimmie was a slightly grizzled forty-seven-year-old [...] while Brenda was a still very attractive thirty.at rob the cradle (v.) under rob, v.
2024 R. Sullivan Devil’s Best Trick x: [I]t became easier and easier to tell myself that the extraordinary stresses and sympathies I experienced in Bosnia had induced bizarre perceptions of what were probably half-imagined shadows of a truth behind my understanding. Or some such shit.at or some (such) shit under shit, n.
2024 R. Sullivan Devil’s Best Trick 140: A number of people in Childress [...] thought the ‘Baby Murder Case’ was what had torn it for Sheriff Bowen, who announced his retirement soon after.at tear it (v.) under tear, v.
2024 R. Sullivan Devil’s Best Trick 33: Tate was not quite sixteen and Karen was closing in on her twenty-first birthday when they first got together.at get together (v.) under together, adj.