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The Third Policeman choose

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[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ Third Policeman (1974) 49: The brother’s valve is banjaxed.
at banjaxed (adj.) under banjax, v.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ Third Policeman (1974) 73: That remark is what may well be called buncombe.
at bunkum, n.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ Third Policeman (1974) 58: Well Great Crikes!
at crikey!, excl.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ Third Policeman (1974) 49: By the Dad! Well carry me back to old Kentucky!
at dad, n.1
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ Third Policeman (1974) 164: You are very intellectual and I am certain I am nothing but a gawm.
at gom, n.2
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ Third Policeman (1974) 49: Well, by the holy Hokey!
at holy hell! (excl.) under holy...!, excl.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ Third Policeman (1974) 162: You thought there was magic in it, not to mention monkey-work of no mean order.
at monkey work (n.) under monkey, n.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ Third Policeman (1974) 161: You could have ten acres of land with strawberry jam spread on it to the height of your two oxters.
at oxter, n.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ Third Policeman (1974) 53: Never in my puff did I hear of any man stealing anything but a bicycle when he was in his sane senses.
at puff, n.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ Third Policeman (1974) 78: A loose plate is a scorcher, nobody lives very long after swallowing one.
at scorcher, n.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ Third Policeman (1974) 153: A conundrum of inscrutable potentialities, a snorter.
at snorter, n.2
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ Third Policeman (1974) 105: ‘I have put the stirabout on the table,’ he said, ‘and the milk is still hot from being inside the cow’s milk-bag.’.
at stir-about (n.) under stir, v.
[Ire] ‘Flann O’Brien’ Third Policeman (1974) 85: ‘There is no option but to stretch you for the serious offence.’ ‘Stretch me?’ ‘Hang you by the windpipe before high breakfast time.’.
at stretch, v.
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