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The Devil’s Best Trick choose

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[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
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