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All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye choose

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[Ire] P. Boyle All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye 30: ‘You can’t whack it, Ma’am,’ he said. ‘The real Ally Dooley.’.
at real Ally Daly, the, n.
[Ire] P. Boyle All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye 52: Why else would he be taking up the cudgels on behalf of a crowd of bloody half-and halfs?
at half-and-half, n.
[Ire] P. Boyle All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye 25: ‘Did you hear that?’ said Molly. ‘Isn’t she the bad-minded article?’.
at article, n.
[Ire] P. Boyle All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye 57: I had him on the hook. You made a bags of the whole thing by butting in.
at bags, n.1
[Ire] P. Boyle All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye 114: I’m properly banjaxed. Whacked out.
at banjaxed (adj.) under banjax, v.
[Ire] P. Boyle All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye 104: ‘Banzai!’ I called out when she finished.
at banzai!, excl.
[Ire] P. Boyle All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye 153: What’s biting him?
at bite, v.
[Ire] P. Boyle All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye 53: Blondie, I call him.
at blondie, n.
[Ire] P. Boyle All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye 56: For sheer brass neck and general effrontery, you must hand it to the little weasel.
at brass neck, n.
[Ire] P. Boyle All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye 158: ‘Bugger off,’ Dermot said wearily.
at bugger off!, excl.
[Ire] P. Boyle All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye 53: Close-cropped bullet head, wattles of flesh creasing the collar of his jacket [...] a rozzer if ever there was one.
at bullet-head, n.
[Ire] P. Boyle All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye 103: Pure bull and a yard wide, but the melody caught me by the throat and made me gulp.
at bullshit, n.
[Ire] P. Boyle All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye 53: A shockproof, fully automatic, twenty-two-carat bum-boy.
at bum boy (n.) under bum, n.1
[Ire] P. Boyle All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye 26: So busy putting them on their edges that you’ll give all your friends the go by.
at give someone/something the go-by (v.) under go-by, n.
[Ire] P. Boyle All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye 53: A shockproof, fully automatic, twenty-two-carat bum-boy.
at twenty-four carat, adj.
[Ire] P. Boyle All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye 24: To hell with casting up. It will get you no place.
at cast up (v.) under cast, v.
[Ire] P. Boyle All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye 79: Laughed up her sleeve while you argued and chawed the fat.
at chew the fat, v.
[Ire] P. Boyle All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye 55: With the clatter he got, he must be just about half-conscious.
at clatter, n.2
[Ire] P. Boyle All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye 105: Sally was to tell her folks that I was anxious to punch in a bit of practice on a first-class instrument, Aunt Mary’s piano being a clem.
at clem, n.
[Ire] P. Boyle All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye 115: Oh, a grisly crowd. Mostly country clod-hoppers.
at clodhopper, n.
[Ire] P. Boyle All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye 101: She stood at the base line, stooping forward intently, racket ready-poised, I dished her up a cookie.
at cookie, n.1
[Ire] P. Boyle All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye 103: If it’s corn they want, it’s corn they’ll get.
at corn, n.1
[Ire] P. Boyle All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye 57: In the name of God, what class of a joint does the little pintle think he is running? A convent or a crap house?
at craphouse, n.
[Ire] P. Boyle All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye 39: You mean that from now on we’re to go round together like a couple of craw-thumping penitents?
at craw-thumping, adj.
[Ire] P. Boyle All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye 67: A bit craw-sick perhaps.
at crawsick, adj.
[Ire] P. Boyle All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye 150: If he was just three-quarter drunk, he’d be in here cribbing and cursing and chawing the fat until he had driven some one of us into a wrangling match.
at crib, v.5
[Ire] P. Boyle All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye 53: Be cripes, it’s a plain-clothes man.
at cripes!, excl.
[Ire] P. Boyle All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye 53: Isn’t he the last word [...] He’s the daddy of them all, I tell you.
at daddy, n.
[Ire] P. Boyle All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye 118: His face was wreathed in a delighted self-satisfied grin [...] Leaning out towards me, he whispered: ‘Deadly!’.
at deadly, adj.
[Ire] P. Boyle All Looks Yellow to the Jaundiced Eye 101: A lucky fluke, was my verdict.
at fluke, n.2
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