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[UK] G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 174: So he bends a few and earns a few, so what? Who gives a fartful?
at not care a fart, v.
[UK] G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 114: Amazing how some of them stand for it. Or that they think anyone cares a fuck.
at not give a fuck, v.
[UK] G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 38: No informer worth a rub was going to come across for a tenner or even a fifty.
at come across, v.
[UK] G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 219: He figure Juliet would at least have been in bed, if not asleep. [...] ‘I figured you’d have been akip.’.
at akip, adj.
[UK] G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 58: Dunno about who, know what. Fuck all. There hasn’t been for a while. Difficult even to get a living nowadays.
at fuck all, n.
[UK] G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 189: Everyone [...] had at some time suffered paranoia about telephones being tapped. And not unreasonably, for more than enough of them were tapped. But not, however, as most people imagined, officially, with all the black and whites correct.
at black and white, n.1
[UK] G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 261: He would transfer as a DCI, and decided to chance his arm by going on the line.
at chance one’s arm (v.) under arm, n.
[UK] G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 38: ‘What’s about, uncle? Anything?’ ‘Nothing I heard about, Mr Sneed. One or two punting around, looking. Nothing to interest you yet.’.
at punt around, v.
[UK] G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 38: ‘Bernard Hart? What d’you hear about him?’ There was a chance he might have known him. But didn’t. ‘Have a quiet punt around, he might be having something off. Some tom.’.
at punt around, n.
[UK] G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 122: But if there’s nothing more than du Cann in the bag, you realise you might have to call your informer to give evidence.
at in the bag under bag, n.1
[UK] G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 143: At any moment he expected DS Lambert or Mason Allen to come on the air, wanting the word. He’d ballock either one for such a move.
at ballock, v.2
[UK] G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 47: He raised some reports and motioned Sneed into a chair with them. That was a good sign, he obviously wasn’t about to be censured; ballockings were received in a very upright position before the DCS’s desk.
at ballocking, n.2
[UK] G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 23: ‘Does it put you in trouble ?’ ‘Depends [...] Could put me bang in trouble. You know what a slippery bastard he is.’.
at bang, adv.
[UK] G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 262: He couldn’t hear what the Commander of C5 had to say at the other end of the phone; all he got was Wiseman’s banter about earning his salary the hard way.
at banter, v.
[UK] G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 242: Perhaps he was prejudging, but the dead bank man was a stone ginger.
at ginger (beer), n.
[UK] G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 34: ‘What about next door?’ ‘Belled up?’ ‘How well?’ ‘A men’s outfitters.’ ‘Don’t s’pose there’s an alarm on the basement anyway.’.
at belled up (adj.) under bell, n.1
[UK] G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 231: His man said he’d like to hear from you [...] Reckon it might be worth giving him a bell.
at give someone a bell (v.) under bell, n.1
[UK] G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 68: The amounts he had tucked away in his two bent bank accounts didn’t put him in the big league.
at big league, n.
[UK] G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 38: ‘How you for money, Ernie ?’ The man hesitated, he rarely had the front to put the bite on directly.
at put the bite on (v.) under bite, n.1
[UK] G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 112: Blackmail wasn’t his exclusive trade [...] ‘All right, Harold, [...] I’m not going to fuck around with you. You’re going to be charged with your bit of black, also with conspiracy to rob.’.
at black, n.
[UK] G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 42: The situation was as Sneed had sussed: the DC blagging his drinks and the poof who fancied himself, getting the needle when he started including old toms in the free rounds.
at blag, v.
[UK] G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 49: They figured the blaggers would go into the jewelry store Saturday night, to give themselves Sunday to work through if need be.
at blagger (n.) under blag, v.
[UK] G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 153: The draughtsman being connected with someone safe who was connected in some way with Rosi, who was probably legitimately connected with someone [...] The only people ever nicked were the cowboys actually doing the blagging.
at blagging (n.) under blag, v.
[UK] G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 23: Had Rosi been available, it was unlikely he would have blanked Paul Rosi, unless he had an ulterior motive for so doing.
at blank, v.2
[UK] G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 203: Also, he was a crank about law and order, and once in such a position with such a vast force under his control, he was likely to go beserk and blitz the entire underworld.
at blitz, v.2
[UK] G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 149: ‘I’ve just been reading about that,’ the accountant said in an even, emotionless tone. He indicated the newspapers [...] ‘They like to blow these things up into something worthwhile, Peter.’.
at blow up, v.1
[UK] G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 137: Did the traveller’s cheques come from the same party as sent you the bogus share certificates?
at bogus, adj.
[UK] G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 245: Your new chief, Terry, is obstinate, boneheaded, wilfully obstructive.
at boneheaded, adj.
[UK] G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 212: Maybe your not as smart as I booked you to be. You must think I’m a bit simple. I was pulling your sort of strokes when I was a TDC, and getting away with them.
at book, v.1
[UK] G.F. Newman You Flash Bastard 275: ‘What about my involvement should an enquiry break?’ ‘An enquiry will break, Terry; sure it will.’.
at break, v.2
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