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The Best Man To Die choose

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[UK] R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 25: Generous to a fault, and if he wasn’t strictly above-board – well, a man had to live.
at above board, adj.
[UK] R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 99: They wanted to know what I was doing about getting another job and all was serene.
at all serene, adj.
[UK] R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 62: You can see Charlie did all right for himself.
at do all right (for oneself) (v.) under all right, adj.
[UK] R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 26: They’d be able to blue some of their own savings on having the flat done up nicely.
at blew, v.2
[UK] R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 114: What did he want it for, Charlie-bloody-Haton?
at bloody, adv.
[UK] R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 51: Put your powder in [...] and Bob’s your uncle.
at bob’s your uncle, phr.
[UK] R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 25: At his age boozing didn’t have much visible effect.
at boozing, n.
[UK] R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 75: She [...] stopped for a chat and a bit of buttering-up.
at butter up (v.) under butter, v.
[UK] R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 25: You and me, we look a pair of right Charlies.
at charlie, n.4
[UK] R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 11: His steady had chucked him two weeks before.
at chuck, v.2
[UK] R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 12: Charlie’s crack could be taken as a compliment.
at crack, n.1
[UK] R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 116: Cut the sob stuff.
at cut, v.4
[UK] R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 10: It’s your bloody head. Take it along to a trick cyclist if it bothers you.
at trick cyclist, n.
[UK] R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 157: Like to have a dekko, he said.
at dekko, n.
[UK] R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 93: They had a bit of a ding-dong, Mr. and Mrs.
at ding-dong, n.5
[UK] R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 52: Sure it wasn’t McCloy’s little dropsy for services rendered?
at dropsy, n.2
[UK] R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 81: He tried to give me the impression his brother-in-law was something of a poor fish.
at poor fish (n.) under fish, n.1
[UK] R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 116: He was flashing all this money about in the Dragon.
at flash, v.1
[UK] R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 10: ‘What’re you going to have?’ ‘Not that gnat’s piss, for a start.’.
at gnat’s piss (n.) under gnat, n.
[UK] R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 178: Charlie told him he wanted hush money out of him.
at hush money, n.
[UK] R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 139: Will you be mother, Mrs. Fanshawe, do the honours?
at be mother (v.) under mother, n.
[UK] R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 125: If Carol chose to pop off with her boy friend for a couple of months, she wasn’t one to stand in her way.
at pop off, v.1
[UK] R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 8: Bloody old woman you are, George.
at old woman, n.
[UK] R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 18: I expect Clytemnestra has spent a penny by now.
at spend a penny (v.) under penny, n.
[UK] R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 9: If anyone had hinted such Jack would have poked him on the nose.
at poke, v.
[UK] R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 74: She was a madam, all right, a proper little madam.
at proper, adj.
[UK] R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 8: I’ll get along to your rave-up on Friday.
at rave, n.
[UK] R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 7: Same again, Bill, and have one yourself.
at same again (n.) under same, adj.
[UK] R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 94: ‘Folks buy new stuff, they don’t want this reconditioned rubbish.’ ‘You can say that again,’ said Wexford.
at you can say that again under say, v.
[UK] R. Rendell Best Man To Die (1981) 14: It’s a real grand job that record-player [...] Must have set you back a bit.
at set someone back (v.) under set, v.
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