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[US] I. Bolton Do I Wake or Sleep in N.Y. Mosaic (1999) 104: Drunk as a lord, of course.
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[US] I. Bolton Do I Wake or Sleep in N.Y. Mosaic (1999) 67: Hadn’t he perhaps preempted the field – done it up brown, once and for all.
at do up brown (v.) under brown, adj.2
[US] I. Bolton Do I Wake or Sleep in N.Y. Mosaic (1999) 16: It was this passion to paint that finally did her in.
at do in, v.
[US] I. Bolton Do I Wake or Sleep in N.Y. Mosaic (1999) 57: By George, I never saw anything like you – you’re perfection.
at by George! (excl.) under George, n.2
[US] I. Bolton ‘Do I Wake or Sleep’ N.Y. Mosaic (1999) 119: My God! Did she mean to tell him that Percival Jones, practically a goner, had got up from that bed and walked out of the room on his own two feet?
at goner, n.1
[US] I. Bolton Do I Wake or Sleep in N.Y. Mosaic (1999) 85: He hated Mr Andrews’ parties – he never, if he could help himself, got roped into them.
at rope in, v.
[US] I. Bolton Do I Wake or Sleep in N.Y. Mosaic (1999) 16: Knowing as he did the jig was nearly up.
at jig, n.2
[US] I. Bolton Do I Wake or Sleep in N.Y. Mosaic (1999) 4: He was making a pass at her hand.
at make a pass (v.) under pass, n.
[US] I. Bolton Do I Wake or Sleep in N.Y. Mosaic (1999) 121: Shaken and washed up by the whole experience.
at washed up, adj.1
[US] I. Bolton ‘Do I Wake or Sleep’ in N.Y. Mosaic (1999) 38: Bridget seemed to know people in every corner of the globe waiting to pull wires, open doors for her.
at pull wires (v.) under wire, n.1
[US] I. Bolton Christmas Tree in N.Y. Mosaic (1999) 290: Had he money for a taxi? No, he hadn’t a red cent.
at red cent, n.
[US] I. Bolton Christmas Tree in N.Y. Mosaic (1999) 267: Traveling in America was the damnedest – all the towns and cities so similar somehow, so ugly and exposed.
at damnedest (adj.) under damned, adj.
[US] I. Bolton Christmas Tree in N.Y. Mosaic (1999) 273: He loved it dearly: ‘Who slapped Annie on the fannie with a flounder?’.
at fanny, n.1
[US] I. Bolton Christmas Tree in N.Y. Mosaic (1999) 270: The poor man retreating in a kind of funk.
at funk, n.2
[US] I. Bolton Christmas Tree in N.Y. Mosaic (1999) 320: She had realised [...] that he didn’t care a rap.
at not care a rap (for) (v.) under rap, n.2
[US] I. Bolton Christmas Tree in N.Y. Mosaic (1999) 319: They had taken Larry off to the Tombs; that was, if she recollected correctly, the name of the city prison.
at Tombs, the, n.
[US] I. Bolton Many Mansions in N.Y. Mosaic (1999) 425: She kept on wishing she had not allowed herself to be bamboozled into ordering that rich, too-heavy chocolate.
at bamboozle, v.
[US] I. Bolton ‘Many Mansions’ in N.Y. Mosaic (1999) 413: Offsetting [...] and generally discombobulating all these odd had-beens and would-be’s were Mary Morrison and her queer friend Morty.
at discombobulate, v.
[US] I. Bolton ‘Many Mansions’ in N.Y. Mosaic (1999) 349: He had done with women. They didn’t jibe with work. The sooner he was down to good hardpan, the better – loneliness, misery, solitude.
at hard-pan, n.
[US] I. Bolton Many Mansions in N.Y. Mosaic (1999) 481: With the victories in the Pacific, the Philippines regained, the islands hopped.
at hop, v.1
[US] I. Bolton ‘Many Mansions’ in N.Y. Mosaic (1999) 429: It was then she’d shot her bolt.
at shoot one’s bolt (v.) under shoot, v.
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