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[UK] K. Lette Foetal Attraction (1994) 63: English dinner parties are a form of S & M. Sado-mastication.
at S and M, n.
[UK] K. Lette Foetal Attraction (1994) 10: The trouble with Born Again New Men, is that they’re an even bigger pain in the bum the second time round.
at pain in the arse, n.
[UK] K. Lette Foetal Attraction (1994) 228: Don’t worry. In a few weeks you’ll be as happy as a dog with two dicks.
at ...a dog with two tails under happy as..., adj.
[UK] K. Lette Foetal Attraction (1994) 117: Alex restrained his urge to go ballistic.
at go ballistic (v.) under ballistic, adj.
[UK] K. Lette Foetal Attraction (1994) 59: ‘No net-play. Just wham-bam, thank you, ma’am.’ The other women at the table tittered in agreement.
at wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am, phr.
[UK] K. Lette Foetal Attraction (1994) 199: The fact that blokes can get all revved up over daffodil-planting [...] without being labelled ‘pillow-biters’.
at pillow-biter, n.
[UK] K. Lette Foetal Attraction (1994) 161: More and more men are shooting blanks, you know.
at shoot blanks (v.) under blank, n.
[UK] K. Lette Foetal Attraction (1994) 14: In love? [...] He only wants you for your bod.
at bod, n.
[UK] K. Lette Foetal Attraction (1994) 203: Gillian was what the police classified as a ‘bolter’.
at bolter, n.
[UK] K. Lette Foetal Attraction (1994) 105: What a stark-raving bonkers, totally moronic numbskull.
at stark staring bonkers, adj.
[UK] K. Lette Foetal Attraction (1994) 57: They were not so much lager-louts as Bollinger bovver boys, Heidsieck hoons.
at bovver boy (n.) under bovver, n.
[UK] K. Lette Foetal Attraction (1994) 34: Below them, an entire division of high-heeled bovver boots awaited their marching orders.
at bovver boots (n.) under bovver, n.
[UK] K. Lette Foetal Attraction (1994) 66: I just hate the Mother Theresa act your friends bung on.
at bung on (v.) under bung, v.1
[UK] K. Lette Foetal Attraction (1994) 122: That made her royalty at home. An antipodean Princess Di. Part of the bunyip aristocracy.
at bunyip, n.
[UK] K. Lette Foetal Attraction (1994) 203: She had also left behind fifteen thousand pounds in debts to the bank and store cards and a swatch of rubber cheques.
at rubber cheque, n.
[UK] K. Lette Foetal Attraction (1994) 57: His guest, a cravated Chinless Wonder.
at chinless wonder, n.
[UK] K. Lette Foetal Attraction (1994) 215: Imagine it. You could slip over to Florida for Chrissy.
at chrissie, n.2
[UK] K. Lette Foetal Attraction (1994) 186: Oh yes. Closet gay. I should have guessed when he got into bed with the jar of Vaseline.
at closet, adj.
[UK] K. Lette Foetal Attraction (1994) 133: She was a ‘woman in trouble’. ‘In the pudding club.’.
at pudding club, n.
[UK] K. Lette Foetal Attraction (1994) 181: I like the olden days [...] If a doctor cocked up, his hand got amputated.
at cock up, v.
[UK] K. Lette Foetal Attraction (1994) 203: Maybe I’ll have a black man. Never done that before. Yes, it’s time I opted for a bit of cocoa.
at cocoa, n.1
[UK] K. Lette Foetal Attraction (1994) 97: I can’t make her do it cold turkey [...] I have to wean her off me slowly.
at cold turkey, adv.
[UK] K. Lette Foetal Attraction (1994) 123: I’m sick of you coming the raw prawn.
at come the raw prawn (v.) under come the..., v.
[UK] K. Lette Foetal Attraction (1994) 214: A mate of a mate overheard a convo at the Groucho club. Said you were in the poo and might want to sell your story.
at convo, n.
[UK] K. Lette Foetal Attraction (1994) 16: You’re crackers! We can’t go in there.
at crackers, adj.
[UK] K. Lette Foetal Attraction (1994) 30: You’re sleeping with Alexander Drake, the Thinking Woman’s Crumpet.
at crumpet, n.
[UK] K. Lette Foetal Attraction (1994) 167: She looks like me. [...] A dead ringer.
at dead ringer, n.
[UK] K. Lette Foetal Attraction (1994) 243: She felt overwhelmed with relief. ‘Whacko-the-diddle-o.’.
at whacko the diddle-oh!, excl.
[UK] K. Lette Foetal Attraction (1994) 212: Gutless wonders who got you by the short and curlies, knocked you up, then did the dingo act and scarpered back to their wives.
at dingo, n.
[UK] K. Lette Foetal Attraction (1994) 267: Gee, I don’t know, doc.
at doc, n.
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