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[Scot] I. Rankin Let It Bleed 103: You look to me like you’re shitting snowballs.
at shit a brick, v.
[Scot] I. Rankin Let It Bleed 160: Took me for five biggies. That still hurts; I’m a diplomat, not a millionaire.
at biggie, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Let It Bleed 213: ‘How long have you been on the Bob Hope, Kirstie?’ ‘You mean the Merry?’ [...] ‘Merry Mac, crack,’ he explained.
at Bob Hope, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Let It Bleed 57: All the forensic boffins looked about nineteen years old.
at boffin, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Let It Bleed 141: It does ring a bell, way at the back of the old brainpan.
at brainpan (n.) under brain, n.1
[Scot] I. Rankin Let It Bleed 158: Not even Tresa McAnally was brass-necked enough to repeat the lie.
at brass-neck, adj.
[Scot] I. Rankin Let It Bleed 82: Rebus would have called Tresa McAnully ‘feisty’; maybe even ‘brassy’.
at brassy, adj.
[Scot] I. Rankin Let It Bleed 88: ‘Buggered if I know,’ he announced to himself.
at buggered if I know under buggered, adj.1
[Scot] I. Rankin Let It Bleed 105: Rico was just about the best and worst housebreaker on the east coast. It wasn’t that he was cack-handed.
at cack-handed, adj.
[Scot] I. Rankin Let It Bleed 81: ‘Forgotten, Miss Profitt?’ Rebus shook his head. ‘I don’t think so, not by a long chalk.’.
at by a long chalk under chalk, n.1
[Scot] I. Rankin Let It Bleed 207: You called me ‘Derry’ – that was a cheap shot.
at cheap shot, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Let It Bleed 121: So Rebus chewed the cud with him.
at chew the cud, v.
[Scot] I. Rankin Let It Bleed 109: Aye, and maybe he’s half-shot and sleeping it off.
at half-shot, adj.
[Scot] I. Rankin Let It Bleed 77: You didn’t have to be too old to qualify for a nip of the harder stuff.
at hard stuff, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Let It Bleed 58: It’s not some brew-head from Gorgie.
at -head, sfx
[Scot] I. Rankin Let It Bleed 218: My guess is, he hoofed it back over the wall.
at hoof, v.
[Scot] I. Rankin Let It Bleed 76: There was enough booze in the kitchenette to start a fair old hootenanny, but this was a wake rather than a celebration.
at hootenanny, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Let It Bleed 80: ‘What’s it to you?’ Her cheeks were reddening with anger.
at what’s it to you?, phr.
[Scot] I. Rankin Let It Bleed 95: I used a johnny, for fuck’s sake, what’s the problem?
at johnny, n.1
[Scot] I. Rankin Let It Bleed 143: That’s just so much keech, Flower.
at keech, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Let It Bleed 144: I’d leave you to squat on the pan and send your career down the lavvy like the night before’s kebab.
at lavvy, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Let It Bleed 213: ‘How long have you been on the Bob Hope, Kirstie?’ ‘You mean the Merry?’ [...] ‘Merry Mac, crack,’ he explained.
at Merry Mac, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Let It Bleed 86: The governor dismissed this with a wave of his hand. ‘It’s not often a suicide on the outside brings me into the equation.’.
at outside, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Let It Bleed 148: Rebus had been to a cash machine. He laid a crisp twenty on the console [...] Gerry Dip palmed the note.
at palm, v.
[Scot] I. Rankin Let It Bleed 211: You think you’re quids-in with the DCC, don’t you?
at quids in under quid, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Let It Bleed 48: Rat-Arse Reynolds is in there.
at rat-arse (n.) under rat, n.1
[Scot] I. Rankin Let It Bleed 53: Used to smoke rollies.
at rollie, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Let It Bleed 97: McAnully at first said she was ‘a screamer’ – in other words, that she cried out at the point of climax.
at screamer, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Let It Bleed 47: He’s on for a sesh.
at sesh, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Let It Bleed 109: Aye, and maybe he’s half-shot and sleeping it off.
at half shot (adj.) under shot, adj.
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