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The Serial: A Year in the Life Of Marin County choose

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[US] C. McFadden Serial 70: His spinal column was threatening to go awol.
at A.W.O.L., adj.
[US] C. McFadden Serial 53: She had a class act going there.
at class act, n.
[US] C. McFadden Serial 15: I can’t get my act together.
at get one’s act together (v.) under act, n.
[US] C. McFadden Serial 23: Don’t you think Carlos Castenada really has his act together.
at have one’s act together (v.) under act, n.
[US] C. McFadden Serial 50: He paid for his g & t.
at g. and t., n.
[US] C. McFadden Serial 133: He did a fast heel-and-toe out to the Volvo.
at heel-and-toe, n.
[US] C. McFadden Serial 95: I’m really a straight arrow.
at straight arrow, n.
[US] C. McFadden Serial 16: Harvey had agreed in principle [...] but he was still burned.
at burned (at), adj.
[US] C. McFadden Serial 58: I hear you, babe; I just can’t figure out what space you’re in.
at babe, n.
[US] C. McFadden Serial 9: She [...] concentrated on her mantra until she was feeling laid back again.
at laid-back, adj.
[US] C. McFadden Serial 110: When Harold dropped the ball on the music, Martha somehow rounded up a Moog synthesiser and two electric guitars.
at drop the ball (v.) under ball, n.1
[US] C. McFadden Serial 86: ‘A viable alternative to the family unit’ was what Harvey called ‘a whole new ball game.’.
at whole new ballgame (n.) under ballgame, n.
[US] C. McFadden Serial 16: She ‘couldn’t get behind one-hour lunch breaks’.
at get behind (v.) under behind, prep.
[US] C. McFadden Serial 90: Wait till you taste Melior [...] You won’t be able to get behind Chex any more.
at get behind (v.) under behind, prep.
[US] C. McFadden Serial 9: People were getting behind marriage again.
at behind, prep.
[US] C. McFadden Serial 84: I hope this is the biggie, Harv.
at biggie, n.
[US] C. McFadden Serial 45: He thought about Marlene and that whole bit.
at whole bit (n.) under bit, n.1
[US] C. McFadden Serial 47: I’m starting to flash on this whole bit.
at bit, n.1
[US] C. McFadden Serial 103: I’ve had it with the bicycle widow bit.
at bit, n.1
[US] C. McFadden Serial 96: Beige is blah, Harv. It’s a nothing colour.
at blah, adj.
[US] C. McFadden Serial 43: It was just a mind-blower that they’d all survived.
at mind-blower, n.
[US] C. McFadden Serial 100: You’re all over the board.
at all over the board under board, n.1
[US] C. McFadden Serial 32: What boggled her, though, was why her uptight husband [...] was suddenly a sex symbol.
at boggle, v.
[US] C. McFadden Serial 31: He [...] was currently teaching night classes in bonehead English.
at bonehead English (n.) under bonehead, n.1
[US] C. McFadden Serial 24: If Harvey thought getting it on with some bubble-gum rocker was realizing his full human potential, well, that was his prerogative.
at bubblegum, adj.
[US] C. McFadden Serial 110: We’re running out of the bubbly.
at bubbly, n.
[US] C. McFadden Serial 100: She has this little VW bug.
at bug, n.4
[US] C. McFadden Serial 64: What’s bugging me [...] is my wife’s getting it on with this banana republic Paul Newman.
at bug, v.2
[US] C. McFadden Serial 100: I used to think she had a pretty dim bulb myself.
at have a dim bulb (v.) under dim bulb, n.
[US] C. McFadden Serial 73: Wolves are far out; they just get a bum rap.
at bum rap, n.
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