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[UK] T. Blacker Fixx 175: ‘Simple Simon Says’, ‘Tie a Yellow Ribbon’, ‘My Ding-a-Ling’.
at ding-a-ling, n.2
[UK] T. Blacker Fixx 39: Every rub-a-dub-dub, every hey-diddle-diddle.
at rub-a-dub(-dub), n.
[UK] T. Blacker Fixx 170: An irresistible Grade A pistol between the sheets.
at grade A, adj.
[UK] T. Blacker Fixx 150: The number-one celebrity on my books going down with a case of the screaming abdabs.
at screaming abdabs (n.) under abdabs, n.
[UK] T. Blacker Fixx 85: Just a nice little business. Making and selling. All above board.
at above board, adj.
[UK] T. Blacker Fixx 298: An ace intelligence maverick on the loose.
at ace, adj.
[UK] T. Blacker Fixx 45: The achiever is obliged at times to keep the company of the also-rans.
at also-ran, n.
[UK] T. Blacker Fixx 146: Pint of best and a large g and t.
at g. and t., n.
[UK] T. Blacker Fixx 83: Insurance was my bread and butter, information my jam.
at bread and butter, n.1
[UK] T. Blacker Fixx 85: No angle [...] Just a nice little business.
at angle, n.
[UK] T. Blacker Fixx 7: A charming, slack-jawed aristo whose name I forget.
at aristo, n.
[UK] T. Blacker Fixx 83: ‘Step aside, Shortarse,’ I said to a tall, skinny youth.
at short-arse, n.
[UK] T. Blacker Fixx 160: Prising him away from his smart-ass lawyers and well-connected friends.
at smart-arsed, adj.
[UK] T. Blacker Fixx 240: No budget, Daddy’s money, and some half-arsed scheme.
at half-assed, adj.
[UK] T. Blacker Fixx 234: Your own gray-haired mother [...] announces that the country’s womenfolk should learn to play with themselves.
at play with oneself (v.) under play (at)..., v.
[UK] T. Blacker Fixx 144: She saved your bacon, God knows why.
at save someone’s bacon (v.) under bacon, n.1
[UK] T. Blacker Fixx 168: Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch (a sort of Highway Code for ballcrushers).
at ball-crusher (n.) under balls, n.
[UK] T. Blacker Fixx 214: A big-eared bamber [...] widely rumoured at the time to be the most brilliant man in Britain.
at bamber, n.1
[UK] T. Blacker Fixx 305: Psychos, junkies, banged-up teenies.
at banged up, adj.1
[UK] T. Blacker Fixx 244: The fourth — a divorcee, normally a banker on these occasions — actually offered me a bed in the spare room.
at banker, n.
[UK] T. Blacker Fixx 291: The woman had flipped; she was barmy, certifiable.
at barmy, adj.
[UK] T. Blacker Fixx 199: The mad old bat tugged and pulled to get at me.
at old bat (n.) under bat, n.1
[UK] T. Blacker Fixx 51: Never [...] have I encountered bedhopping on the scale it took place at Melton Hall.
at bedhop (v.) under bed, n.
[UK] T. Blacker Fixx 32: We took what Aunty Bar-Bar still referred to as the High Road to Bedfordshire.
at Bedfordshire, n.
[UK] T. Blacker Fixx 282: The discordant sounds of her friend Swinging Bollocks with his Bendover Boys.
at bend over (for) (v.) under bend, v.1
[UK] T. Blacker Fixx 48: A mustachioed bender whose method of correcting the younger boys’ Latin unseens was to run his [...] hands up the legs of their shorts.
at bender, n.1
[UK] T. Blacker Fixx 127: A succession of clapped-out aristos and bent MPs.
at bent, adj.
[UK] T. Blacker Fixx 308: This woman had never given the berk a second look.
at berk, n.
[UK] T. Blacker Fixx 103: While a man might assess a problem cerebrally, his ‘other half’ will be guided [...] by the deep and mysterious processes of her hormones.
at better half, n.
[UK] T. Blacker Fixx 193: I do believe that this could be the big one.
at big one, n.
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