2001 C. Brookmyre A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away 67: Ants in their pants because someone mentioned the Bogeyman.at ants in one’s pants under ants, n.
2001 C. Brookmyre A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away 8: You could bet they weren’t fantasising about being a family-man wage-serf while they burned rubber.at burn rubber, v.
2001 C. Brookmyre A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away 5: An absolute fanny. Risking his life in an attempt to overtake before the crawler lane ends.at fanny, n.1
2001 C. Brookmyre A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away 74: ‘Aye, that’s gallus,’ was the impressed consensus.at gallows, adj.
2001 C. Brookmyre A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away 20: Would they rather open your neat, shiny briefcase than the forbiddingly grubby overnight bag of the eye-stingingly sweaty gut-bucket ahead of you.at gutbucket, n.2
2001 C. Brookmyre A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away 8: Drinking becks makes him cooler than the bloke standing next to him with a pint of heavy.at heavy wet, n.
2001 C. Brookmyre A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away 20: They didn’t want to get too fresh in case you took the huff.at take (the) huff (v.) under huff, n.
2001 C. Brookmyre A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away 9: A frontwoman who was blond with legs all the way up to her head.at legs (right/all the way) up (to her ass) under leg, n.
2001 C. Brookmyre A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away 63: No paymaster on that occasion, no Looney-Tunes collectively trumpeting their responsibility.at looney tune, n.
2001 C. Brookmyre A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away 9: At least you had to give the Scans credit for having sussed that this was the only recipe viable for export.at Scan, n.