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[UK] ‘John le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy 151: Jerry bashed out a piece on the effect of the American military pullout.
at bash out (v.) under bash, v.
[UK] ‘John le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy 387: He could get Lizzie into the bigtime heroin trail.
at big-time, adj.
[UK] ‘John le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy 450: Lizzie Worthington, suburban bolter.
at bolter, n.
[UK] ‘John le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy 83: Still be their case, even if Ricardo was a bummer.
at bummer, n.3
[UK] ‘John le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy 133: Frost drank greedily [...] ‘Bung-ho.’.
at bung ho!, excl.
[UK] ‘John le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy 133: Want me to give her a buzz?
at give someone a buzz (v.) under buzz, n.
[UK] ‘John le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy 459: ‘Check,’ said Murphy.
at check!, excl.
[UK] ‘John le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy 414: I don’t like you to sit on my friend’s head [...] while he catch cold turkey.
at cold turkey, n.
[UK] ‘John le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy 367: The ‘crew only’ door was guarded by a pair of very serious crushers.
at crusher, n.1
[UK] ‘John le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy 58: He invited three of the least bending Whitehall desk-jockeys.
at desk jockey (n.) under desk, n.
[UK] ‘John le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy 254: F-ing and blinding like I don’t know what.
at eff and blind (v.) under eff, v.
[UK] ‘John le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy 136: We’d tell them how you play roundeye musical beds at the young bankers’ club.
at round-eyed, adj.
[UK] ‘John le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy 525: ‘Gammon and spinach!’ Connie stormed.
at gammon and spinach (n.) under gammon, n.2
[UK] ‘John le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy 77: Gum-shoeing after Commercial Boris.
at gumshoe, v.
[UK] ‘John le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy 386: You hashed-out wreck!
at hashed out, adj.
[UK] ‘John le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy 254: My hat! F-ing and blinding like I don’t know what.
at my hat!, excl.
[UK] ‘John le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy 275: And do we go for his jugular? [...] Do we hell. We pussyfoot. We stand on the sidelines.
at do I hell! (excl.) under — hell!, excl.
[UK] ‘John le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy 162: [of racehorses] None of your jail-bait chestnut with a light mane and tail that take the women’s vote in every race.
at jailbait, n.
[UK] ‘John le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy 140: You might as well try and take Fort Knox with a jemmy.
at jemmy, n.3
[UK] ‘John le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy 254: Didn’t stop Drake lamming into him, all the same.
at lam (it) into (v.) under lam, v.1
[UK] ‘John le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy 133: My secretary. very nice. Legs go right up to its bottom, so they tell me.
at legs (right/all the way) up (to her ass) under leg, n.
[UK] ‘John le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy 422: Collect a little mud maybe, take him a few guns, rice, gold.
at mud, n.
[UK] ‘John le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy 136: ‘Front page mugshot, banner headlines.’.
at mug shot, n.
[UK] ‘John le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy 527: That twerp Enderby is oiling through the back door.
at oil, v.
[UK] ‘John le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy 275: And do we go for his jugular? [...] Do we hell. We pussyfoot. We stand on the sidelines.
at pussyfoot, v.
[UK] ‘John le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy 155: ‘He’s raising Cain in Taipei,’ Craw said.
at raise Cain (v.) under raise, v.
[UK] ‘John le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy 140: Very nice blonde party he had with him. Roundeye.
at roundeye, n.
[UK] ‘John le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy 155: He made a show of rubbernecking at the outside of the villas there, as many idle tourists do.
at rubberneck, v.
[UK] ‘John le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy 388: [of a man] ‘Take those Commie stars off your tits.’.
at tit, n.2
[UK] ‘John le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy 151: The word is well done and hold your water.
at hold one’s water (v.) under water, n.1
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