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Dolores Claiborne choose

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[US] S. King Dolores Claiborne 235: I knew that what happened the next day over on the mainland didn’t matter a tinker’s damn.
at not matter a tinker’s damn, v.
[US] S. King Dolores Claiborne 137: She didn’t have to recognize Jack Shit on a hill of beans if she didn’t want to.
at hill of beans, a, phr.
[US] S. King Dolores Claiborne n.p.: And one night, when I forgot to knock on her door before I went into her room, she just about broke her legs gettin her robe offa the closet door, and she was wearin a slip – it wasn’t like she was bollicky bare-ass or nothin.
at bollicky bare-ass, adj.
[US] S. King Dolores Claiborne 87: All of em laughin and grab-assin around and maybe passin a bottle of cheap wine in a paper bag.
at grab-ass, v.
[US] S. King Dolores Claiborne 303: ‘What can you be thinking about, Dolores?’ she ast in that haughty Kiss-My-Back-Cheeks voice of hers.
at kiss-my-ass, adj.
[US] S. King Dolores Claiborne 32: I knew she was holdin onto one gut-buster of a b.m.
at B.M., n.2
[US] S. King Dolores Claiborne 149: Sometimes their brakes fail and they run their BMWs into oak trees.
at b.m.w., n.
[US] S. King Dolores Claiborne 74: He sure as hell wasn’t gonna tell em his wife’d whopped the bejesus out of him with a creamer.
at bejazus, n.
[US] S. King Dolores Claiborne 281: I’d dish out a few names of my own startin with ‘yellowbelly.’.
at yellow belly, n.
[US] S. King Dolores Claiborne 141: No fitted sheets for Vera Donovan, you c’n bet your bottom dollar on that.
at bet one’s bottom dollar (v.) under bet, v.
[US] S. King Dolores Claiborne 2: I’ll give you a little piece of advice – when you get around an old biddy like me, you just want to save that grin.
at biddy, n.2
[US] S. King Dolores Claiborne 284: There was somethin else bitin me, too [...] Somethin way wrong about the whole proposition.
at bite, v.
[US] S. King Dolores Claiborne 167: That was a boogery thing you done, firin that girl like that.
at boogery, adj.
[US] S. King Dolores Claiborne 53: Out here in the boondocks about the most int’restin thing a person can do is die sudden.
at boondocks, n.
[US] S. King Dolores Claiborne 215: Brain him, you ninny.
at brain, v.
[US] S. King Dolores Claiborne 140: It’ll prob’ly rain like a bugger that day.
at like buggery (adv.) under buggery, n.
[US] S. King Dolores Claiborne 119: I’ve run m’gums for pretty near three-quarters of an hour about Selena.
at bump one’s gums (v.) under bump, v.1
[US] S. King Dolores Claiborne 209: How he’d managed to fall thirty or thirty-five feet and only get bunged up bad instead of bein killed outright.
at bunged up, adj.
[US] S. King Dolores Claiborne 10: Nor was he gonna [...] change her diapers and wipe the shit off her fat old can.
at can, n.1
[US] S. King Dolores Claiborne 15: You better believe me when I say I earned every red cent of it.
at red cent, n.
[US] S. King Dolores Claiborne 9: No high-steppin kitty like Vera Kiss-My-Back-Cheeks Donovan.
at cheeks, n.1
[US] S. King Dolores Claiborne 100: I think he would have picked her cherry before Labor Day if it hadn’t been for Joe Junior and Little Pete bein out of school.
at crack a cherry (v.) under cherry, n.1
[US] S. King Dolores Claiborne 26: Most days there was apt to be a clinker in the pan along with the pee.
at clinker, n.5
[US] S. King Dolores Claiborne 285: The rich fella who used to give away a million bucks at a crack on that old TV show.
at crack, n.1
[US] S. King Dolores Claiborne 231: Amongst the beans n cukes.
at cuke, n.
[US] S. King Dolores Claiborne 4: Don’t these Japanese just make the most cunning little things? [...] I guess we both know what’s going on the tape inside that little cutie-pie could put me in Women’s Correctional for the rest of my life.
at cutie-pie, n.
[US] S. King Dolores Claiborne 182: ‘Maybe you n me can get up to dickens later on. What do you think about that, Dee?’ ‘Maybe,’ I says, all the time thinkin there was gonna be plenty of dickens, all right. Before it got dark for the second time that day, Joe St George was gonna get more dickens than he’d ever dreamed of.
at dickens, the, phr.
[US] S. King Dolores Claiborne 51: She threw one of her dust bunny wingdings.
at wing-ding, n.
[US] S. King Dolores Claiborne 29: She was apt to be swearin like a dock walloper.
at dock-walloper (n.) under dock, n.2
[US] S. King Dolores Claiborne 8: As her paid companion, I had to eat it around the clock.
at eat it, v.
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