1974 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.
1974 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.
1974 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
1974 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.
1974 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.
1974 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.
1974 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
1974 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.
1974 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.
1974 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.
1974 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.
1974 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.
1974 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
1974 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.
1974 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
1974 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
1974 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.
1974 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.
1974 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
1974 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
1974 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.
1974 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.
1974 R. Dennis Murder Is Not an Odd Job in Complete Hardman 756: ‘[S]omebody wanted your gizzard chopped’.at chop, v.2
1974 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
1974 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.
1974 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.
1974 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.
1974 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.
1974 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