1978 P. Theroux Picture Palace 27: ‘Dated her,’ I said. ‘You mean a little boom-boom?’ ‘Jig-jig,’ he said.at jig-a-jig, n.
1978 P. Theroux Picture Palace 279: Huxley sticking out like a sore thumb among the bellowing movie marquees, the clip joints and dives.at stick out like a sore thumb, v.
1978 P. Theroux Picture Palace 303: Boring? You have no idea. I used to look at Europe and think, Do me a favour!at do me a favour, phr.
1978 P. Theroux Picture Palace 155: He [...] then pursed his lips at me in smart-alecky satisfaction.at smart-aleck, adj.
1978 P. Theroux Picture Palace 225: The avaricious little so-and-so, ain’t she ever going to be satisfied?at so-and-so, n.
1978 P. Theroux Picture Palace 142: It’s a different ball game altogether.at whole new ballgame (n.) under ballgame, n.
1978 P. Theroux Picture Palace 135: He gave me the usual baloney about farmers with furrows on their faces.at baloney, n.
1978 P. Theroux Picture Palace 156: A man who had bamboozled a doting group of people with his lugubrious attentions.at bamboozle, v.
1978 P. Theroux Picture Palace 11: No one wanted me to go: afraid I’ll croak, barf on my shoes, faint on the plane.at barf, v.
1978 P. Theroux Picture Palace 50: Orthodox Jewish Boys, a small group of dark-eyed youngsters with beanies and side-curls.at beanie, n.1
1978 P. Theroux Picture Palace 162: He got up and [...] went over to the beat-up camera.at beat-up, adj.
1978 P. Theroux Picture Palace 235: She was shaking her head and her mouth was set in a rueful little pucker. ‘It beats me.’.at beats me! (excl.) under beat, v.
1978 P. Theroux Picture Palace 159: Chilly little things that could not qualify as nudes since they didn’t have bellybuttons.at belly button (n.) under belly, n.
1978 P. Theroux Picture Palace 228: If his house caught fire you can bet your bottom dollar he’d come rushing out with an armload of his own negatives.at bet one’s bottom dollar (v.) under bet, v.
1978 P. Theroux Picture Palace 240: I said, ‘There’s something wrong, isn’t there?’ ‘You bet your boots there is!’.at bet one’s boots (v.) under bet, v.
1978 P. Theroux Picture Palace 258: You want a life study – the original birthday suit? Sorry, I’m in retirement. No pictures.at birthday suit, n.
1978 P. Theroux Picture Palace 49: Even if they had slobbered over every blessed picture in the place they would not have understood.at blessed, adj.
1978 P. Theroux Picture Palace 325: They [...] were not paying the blindest bit of attention to my pictures.at blind, adj.2
1978 P. Theroux Picture Palace 213: The more Orlando kidded me about the bonanza at the Camera Club, and all those requests for photojournalism.at bonanza, n.
1978 P. Theroux Picture Palace 135: Most of those black pimps [...] looked like kings and princes of Bongo-land.at bongo-(bongo) land (n.) under bongo, n.1
1978 P. Theroux Picture Palace 213: It is related to the grant, the fellowship, the endowment, and every other boondoggle associated with sugar-daddy creativity.at boondoggle, n.
1978 P. Theroux Picture Palace 228: ‘Get off the bucket, I’m serious,’ I said.at get off the bucket (v.) under bucket, n.
1978 P. Theroux Picture Palace 140: I wonder what folks like that do on vacation. Probably tear open a six-pack and shoot the bull.at shoot the bull (v.) under bull, n.6