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[UK] R.L. Pike Mute Witness (1997) 67: Everybody and his brother has been calling you every two minutes all morning!
at everybody and his cousin, n.
[UK] R.L. Pike Mute Witness (1997) 118: Johnny Rossi [...] A big wheel in the Syndicate.
at big wheel (n.) under big, adj.
[UK] R.L. Pike Mute Witness (1997) 69: I don’t suppose you know that Mr Big-Mouth Chalmers has been screaming to the Mayor, the Commissioner, and the Chief, do you?
at bigmouth, n.
[UK] R.L. Pike Mute Witness (1997) 134: The way I figured it, you was more interested in the time [...] this Rossi – Johnny Rossi, I mean – was getting the blast.
at get the blast (v.) under blast, n.1
[UK] R.L. Pike Mute Witness (1997) 134: The way I figured it, you was more interested in the time [...] this Rossi – Johnny Rossi, I mean – was getting the blast.
at blast, n.1
[UK] R.L. Pike Mute Witness (1997) 82: You wouldn’t bull an old bull-artist, would you, Mr C?
at bull, v.1
[UK] R.L. Pike Mute Witness (1997) 82: You wouldn’t bull an old bull-artist, would you, Mr C?
at bull artist (n.) under bull, n.6
[UK] R.L. Pike Mute Witness (1997) 68: He snatches the hottest bum since Hitler, hides him [...] then he asks me just like this, what’s on my mind!
at bum, n.3
[UK] R.L. Pike Mute Witness (1997) 34: That’s a lot of bunk and you know it, he added to himself.
at bunk, n.2
[UK] R.L. Pike Mute Witness (1997) 80: I’m so bushed that one beer would probably put me flat on my face.
at bushed, adj.
[UK] R.L. Pike Mute Witness (1997) 5: You were giving me the needle, The business.
at business, n.
[UK] R.L. Pike Mute Witness (1997) 80: With a pleased glance at his expensive wrist-watch. ‘Not bad. One-fifteen on the button.’.
at on the button under button, n.1
[UK] R.L. Pike Mute Witness (1997) 71: He was up on one of the floors fixing a faucet or something around the time Rossi caught it.
at catch it (v.) under catch, v.1
[UK] R.L. Pike Mute Witness (1997) 91: A cop. A chinzy low-pay fly-cop.
at chintzy, adj.
[UK] R.L. Pike Mute Witness (1997) 91: A cop. A chinzy low-pay fly-cop.
at fly cop, n.
[UK] R.L. Pike Mute Witness (1997) 88: Don’t get cute with me, Lieutenant! Not with me.
at cute, adj.
[UK] R.L. Pike Mute Witness (1997) 145: The house dick knows this Rykind character.
at dick, n.5
[UK] R.L. Pike Mute Witness (1997) 105: This time he’s dead, Doc.
at doc, n.
[UK] R.L. Pike Mute Witness (1997) 83: That Bar-Fly – he was a real dog. He ran out.
at dog, n.2
[UK] R.L. Pike Mute Witness (1997) 52: He’s a doll.
at doll, n.1
[UK] R.L. Pike Mute Witness (1997) 141: He was a sort of a drooly little goon.
at drooly, n.
[UK] R.L. Pike Mute Witness (1997) 56: When they changed brownstone-fronts from decent houses to these chi-chi dumps.
at dump, n.3
[UK] R.L. Pike Mute Witness (1997) 172: I don’t know how Rossi calmed her, or what story he fobbed her off with.
at fob someone off (v.) under fob, v.
[UK] R.L. Pike Mute Witness (1997) 66: She’s foggy, dazed. I gave her a hell of a shock.
at foggy, adj.
[UK] R.L. Pike Mute Witness (1997) 156: A goony little bellhop.
at goony, adj.
[UK] R.L. Pike Mute Witness (1997) 149: All you’re going to be asking for is grief, going in there.
at grief, n.1
[UK] R.L. Pike Mute Witness (1997) 171: Do you suppose that gut-ache was faked?
at gut-ache (n.) under gut, n.
[UK] R.L. Pike Mute Witness (1997) 12: Much as I hate this hood’s guts, our job is to keep him alive.
at hate someone’s guts (v.) under gut, n.
[UK] R.L. Pike Mute Witness (1997) 4: Are you calling me trigger-happy?
at -happy, sfx
[UK] R.L. Pike Mute Witness (1997) 69: I don’t suppose that you know that Mr High-Nose Chalmers of the District Attorney’s Office has checked on every hospital.
at high nose, n.
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