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The Rat on Fire choose

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[US] G.V. Higgins Rat on Fire (1982) 117: Could you embalm a high mucky-mucky-muck of the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks?
at high muck-a-muck, n.
[US] G.V. Higgins Rat on Fire (1982) 83: You’re as drunk as a hoot owl.
at drunk as a boiled owl, adj.
[US] G.V. Higgins Rat on Fire (1982) 90: Just a kid that didn’t know shit-all from what he was doing.
at shit-all, n.
[US] G.V. Higgins Rat on Fire (1982) 34: He was all over my father like a rash.
at all over, adj.2
[US] G.V. Higgins Rat on Fire (1982) 15: Oh, there’s a few of the minority groups shuckin’ and jivin’ on your stoops and stuff like that.
at shuck and jive, v.
[US] G.V. Higgins Rat on Fire (1982) 43: Then you depreciate the ass off it [...] and you sell the fuckin’ thing to somebody else.
at — the arse/ass off under arse, n.
[US] G.V. Higgins Rat on Fire (1982) 134: Talked to fein this morning. Happy as a pig in shit.
at ...a pig in shit under happy as..., adj.
[US] G.V. Higgins Rat on Fire (1982) 15: The nuns down Our Lady of Victory practically made a public announcement [...] that Leo Proctor was thick as shit.
at thick as..., adj.
[US] G.V. Higgins Rat on Fire (1982) 56: You got the money and you’re a big-ass state rep.
at big-ass, adj.
[US] G.V. Higgins Rat on Fire (1982) 18: That was a dog-ass amateur job.
at dog-assed, adj.
[US] G.V. Higgins Rat on Fire (1982) 79: When he came in she was half in the bag and she described him to everybody else in the joint.
at in the bag under bag, n.1
[US] G.V. Higgins Rat on Fire (1982) 88: No cops around. No bears in the woods from One-twenty-eight all the way the terminal.
at bear, n.
[US] G.V. Higgins Rat on Fire (1982) 85: I get myself one of Danny’s belly-busters there [...] all them pieces of somebody’s old snow tires and that fuckin’ grease and thoe goddamned canned green peppers that taste like old green socks.
at belly-buster (n.) under belly, n.
[US] G.V. Higgins Rat on Fire (1982) 27: You come jumpin’ in now with your bowels in an uproar, the case is blown.
at blown, adj.
[US] G.V. Higgins Rat on Fire (1982) 151: This is the first trime I ever nailed an investigator for booting one, and he came right out and said he booted it.
at boot, v.1
[US] G.V. Higgins Rat on Fire (1982) 93: That’s none of your business [...] That’s none of your fuckin’ goddamned business whatsoever at all.
at business, n.
[US] G.V. Higgins Rat on Fire (1982) 39: Bobby was still telling me, they’re carting me off to Norfolk, I shouldn’t worry about anything because he will get me out.
at cart, v.
[US] G.V. Higgins Rat on Fire (1982) 30: Being Jewish in this town is like living next door to Tap City.
at tap city, n.
[US] G.V. Higgins Rat on Fire (1982) 141: Couple of smart cookies.
at smart cookie (n.) under cookie, n.1
[US] G.V. Higgins Rat on Fire (1982) 79: I drive past the joint and there is Billy’s cruiser.
at cruiser, n.
[US] G.V. Higgins Rat on Fire (1982) 106: This drunk comes up to you in the bar [...] and he gets a look at the cupcakes.
at cupcake, n.
[US] G.V. Higgins Rat on Fire (1982) 140: That Tackles [...] That guy is the goddamnedest guy I ever met. And he is smart, too.
at god-damned, adj.
[US] G.V. Higgins Rat on Fire (1982) 88: Deadheaded up there like a bat out of fuckin’ hell.
at deadhead, v.
[US] G.V. Higgins Rat on Fire (1982) 27: You can just keep your dick in your pants until we get these guys set up for you to fuck them.
at keep one’s dick in one’s pants (v.) under dick, n.1
[US] G.V. Higgins Rat on Fire (1982) 65: If I was you I would just go right back out that door and let her diddle heself in the powder room.
at diddle, v.1
[US] G.V. Higgins Rat on Fire (1982) 64: She’s up the K-Mart sellin’ dingbats to dingbats or something.
at dingbat, n.6
[US] G.V. Higgins Rat on Fire (1982) 75: ‘He’s dogging it,’ Roscommon said. ‘He’s not dogging it [...] He’s got a temperature and he’s got a fever and he’s got the trots.’.
at dog it, v.1
[US] G.V. Higgins Rat on Fire (1982) 89: Way it was, I got on the double-nickel with the load, and the rain got on the double-nickel with me.
at double nickel (n.) under double, adj.
[US] G.V. Higgins Rat on Fire (1982) 15: I am not so stupid that even I do not know that Four-flusher Fein is not your very best legal-type counsellor.
at four-flusher, n.
[US] G.V. Higgins Rat on Fire (1982) 2: My previous fellow officers went out to deliver a piece of paper to a guy that took French leave from the prison.
at French leave, n.
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