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[US] C. Carr Angel of Darkness 14: She was having a hell of a time keeping a grip on the rain gutter [...] and was a rat’s ass away from falling into the Doctor’s front yard.
at rat’s ass, n.
[US] C. Carr Angel of Darkness 6: ‘Don’t take on airs,’ I answers. ‘The Times’s given you the sack twice that I know of, exactly because you didn’t know how to approach your public.’.
at give someone the sack (v.) under sack, n.
[US] C. Carr Angel of Darkness 21: She had a set of stems on her what started in a pair of slender ankles and didn’t seems to end till somewhere up around the ceiling — and the ceilings in that building were high, mind you.
at stems, n.1
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