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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress choose

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[Ire] P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 16: We’re talking Denise Richards, except with airbags as standard.
at air bags (n.) under air, n.
[Ire] P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 57: Trying to work up the energy to [...] have an Allied Irish. [Ibid.] 199: Hoping that didn’t make me sound like a total Allied Irish Banker.
at Allied Irish, n.
[Ire] P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 19: I hit the can. I have to drop anchor in Porcelain bay.
at drop anchor (v.) under anchor, n.
[Ire] P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 24: The old Jack and Jill is proving to be a bit of an issue with the management.
at jack (and jill), n.
[Ire] P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 283: The other three saw what I did to him and bottled it.
at bottle (it) (v.) under bottle (and glass), n.
[Ire] P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 282: This other little kid, has a terrible bread-and-butter.
at bread and butter, n.2
[Ire] P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 154: I’ve done a hit-and-miss in my trousers.
at hit (and miss), n.
[Ire] P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 161: The pen off the carpet is totally Pádraig.
at pen (and ink), n.
[Ire] P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 70: I’m buying [...] new rhythms – we’re talking Hugo loafers.
at rhythm and blues, n.
[Ire] P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 152: He has to travel half way around the world to get his rock and roll.
at rock and roll, n.
[Ire] P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 2: A bunch of focking Antos came to live in our gaffs.
at Anto, n.
[Ire] P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 25: I ring Orse Wipe on his mobile.
at arsewipe, n.
[Ire] P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 4: He was as happy as a dog with two mickeys.
at ...a dog with two tails under happy as..., adj.
[Ire] P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 99: All of which basically translates as, kick orse!
at kick ass, v.
[Ire] P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 278: Not so much the glitterati as the clitterati. We’re talking [...] decadence, Baby.
at -ati, sfx
[Ire] P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 239: It’s a pretty bad atmos.
at atmos, n.
[Ire] P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 28: ‘That’s total BS and you know it.’ [Ibid.] 144: [He]’s spouting all sorts of BS about the Armenian Quarter.
at b.s., n.
[Ire] P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 101: They’re both pretty babelicious.
at babelicious (adj.) under babe, n.
[Ire] P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 20: Wearing a tin of fruit that must have cost at least a thousand bills.
at bag of fruit, n.
[Ire] P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 28: You’re trying to bail in.
at bail in (v.) under bail, v.
[Ire] P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 88: You’re like Grant Mitchell’s phone – bang out of awder.
at bang, adv.
[Ire] P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 122: Brown hair, amazing eyes, huge baps.
at baps, n.
[Ire] P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 29: Have you actually been there, or even tried to be?
at be there, v.
[Ire] P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 284: She focks off and brings the beanpole with her.
at beanpole, n.
[Ire] P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 37: The bigger kid beats it.
at beat it, v.
[Ire] P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 23: I end up [...] belling Sorcha. She answers on the third ring.
at bell, v.
[Ire] P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 229: Missing JP? That’s benny talk.
at benny, n.3
[Ire] P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 145: What I really wished for was that [...] we’d live, like, happily ever after, roysh, but I didn’t say that because it sounded too bent.
at bent, adj.
[Ire] P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 2: Anto had this sister, Tina, who was, like, bet-down. I mean, the focking tide wouldn’t take her out.
at bet down, adj.
[Ire] P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 20: I’m playing the big-time Jack the Lad.
at big-time, adj.
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