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[US] R. Dennis Working for the Man in Complete Hardman 914: ‘Lost his nerve. After that the rest of it wasn’t worth two sheets of shit paper’.
at not worth a shit, phr.
[US] R. Dennis Deadly Cotton Heart in Complete Hardman 1011: As far as business went, we were about as busy as a dead cat down a storm drain.
at busy as a dead cat down a storm drain (adj.) under busy as..., adj.
[US] R. Dennis Deadly Cotton Heart in Complete Hardman 1014: I was just some white-ass he’d like to kick butt on.
at -ass, sfx
[US] R. Dennis Pimp for the Dead in Complete Hardman 671: ‘I don’t like this murder you picked to go digging about in. It gives me the red ass’.
at red ass, n.
[US] R. Dennis Deadly Cotton Heart in Complete Hardman 1014: I was just some white-ass he’d like to kick butt on.
at kick ass, v.
[US] R. Dennis Working for the Man in Complete Hardman 995: ‘Keep a tight a-hole. I’ll drop the copy and the money by in an hour or so’.
at keep a tight asshole (v.) under asshole, n.
[US] R. Dennis Pimp for the Dead in Complete Hardman 631: ‘That motherfucker has been backdooring half the men in the city of Atlanta’.
at backdoor, v.1
[US] R. Dennis Deadly Cotton Heart in Complete Hardman 1116: ‘That’s balls,’ I said.
at balls, n.
[US] R. Dennis Murder Is Not an Odd Jobs in Complete Hardman 866: Sheriff Abel Box didn’t like us one bit. A banty little man with a beer gut and a pigeon chest.
at banty, adj.
[US] R. Dennis Murder Is Not an Odd Job in Complete Hardman 817: Hump was in worse shape than me because of all that bareback riding.
at barebacking (n.) under bareback, adv.
[US] R. Dennis Pimp for the Dead in Complete Hardman 612: I gave him my hard look. ‘What did you expect to find?’ The beast with two backs? I added to myself.
at make the beast with two backs (v.) under beast, n.
[US] R. Dennis Deadly Cotton Heart in Complete Hardman 1117: One night, when he had me beered out, he took me to a black place.
at beered (out/up) (adj.) under beer, n.
[US] R. Dennis Pimp for the Dead in Complete Hardman 632: He lifted the wine and the hand was steady. So much for the hair of the dog.
at hair of the dog (that bit one), n.
[US] R. Dennis Deadly Cotton Heart in Complete Hardman 1108: ‘Keppler cancelled the call to the lawyer. I’ll book you twenty that you won’t hear from it’.
at book, v.1
[US] R. Dennis Pimp for the Dead in Complete Hardman 645: ‘Billy DePaul. Runs a medium-sized book. Used to run a numbers thing in New Haven’.
at book, n.
[US] R. Dennis Murder Is Not an Odd Job in Complete Hardman 786: ‘He said your wife wasn’t mad anymore and you could come home.’ ‘Bugger her, I said.
at bugger, v.1
[US] R. Dennis Working for the Man in Complete Hardman 989: He had a burn on against me and sometime in the last day or so he’d made out his own death contract on me.
at do a burn (v.) under burn, n.1
[US] R. Dennis Murder Is Not an Odd Job in Complete Hardman 844: [T]he [ambulance] driver threw rubber heading back toward town.
at burn rubber, v.
[US] R. Dennis Working for the Man in Complete Hardman 889: [The bar] was heavy brass and a burp gun had stitched some special decorations across it.
at burpgun (n.) under burp, v.
[US] R. Dennis Murder Is Not an Odd Job in Complete Hardman 830: It didn’t take much to frighten the kid into making a statement about his affair with the wife. There’d been a lot of afternoon bush-shaking going on.
at bush-shaking (n.) under bush, n.1
[US] R. Dennis Pimp for the Dead in Complete Hardman 688: ‘That’s like inviting all five of you to stop by and kick his butt around the block’.
at kick someone’s butt (v.) under butt, n.1
[US] R. Dennis Working for the Man in Complete Hardman 888: ‘One thing about calling somebody in a game like that. You ought to be standing up when you do it and you ought to have something in your hand’.
at call, v.
[US] R. Dennis Deadly Cotton Heart in Complete Hardman 1109: I could look at the lawn and see the bare spots [...] where it needed re-seeding. Fat chance.
at fat chance, n.
[US] R. Dennis Murder Is Not an Odd Job in Complete Hardman 756: ‘[S]omebody wanted your gizzard chopped’.
at chop, v.2
[US] R. Dennis Deadly Cotton Heart in Complete Hardman 1033: ‘I might raise the question of entrapment.’ ‘That dog won’t hunt [...] And you damn well know it’.
at that cock won’t fight under cock, n.3
[US] R. Dennis Working for the Man in Complete Hardman 976: ‘He calls you at eight-fifteen. But [...] you’re playing it cozy. [...] You ask him to prove he’s got a copy’.
at play it cozy (v.) under cozy, adj.
[US] R. Dennis Working for the Man in Complete Hardman 916: ‘Come on, cunt,’ Hump said [...] He had his hands up and ready.
at cunt, n.
[US] R. Dennis Deadly Cotton Heart in Complete Hardman 1046: This one would answer the hard and nasty questions. She’d scratch dirt with the best of them.
at scratch dirt (v.) under dirt, n.
[US] B. Jones in Dennis Pimp for the Dead in Complete Hardman 740: Ralph told him to ‘put it [i.e. an opinion] where the moon don’t shine’.
at where the sun doesn’t shine, phr.
[US] R. Dennis Deadly Cotton Heart in Complete Hardman 1085: ‘I’ve been dogging it [...] I’ve given them every chance to pass and they won’t’.
at dog it, v.1
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