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The Concrete Kimono choose

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[UK] J.P. Carstairs Concrete Kimono 65: ‘You really won’t go back — not even if we raised the ante?’ ‘What, more mazuma?’.
at up the ante (v.) under ante, n.
[UK] J.P. Carstairs Concrete Kimono 27: It was [...] about as warm as a witch’s teat.
at ...a witch’s tit under cold as..., adj.
[UK] J.P. Carstairs Concrete Kimono 125: Think it’s some bally palais-de-dance, Trenton?
at bally, adj.
[UK] J.P. Carstairs Concrete Kimono 190: ‘My brother’s mob,’ Sharon said. ‘Exactly, Barbie-doll, but I’d never heard [...] at that time.’.
at Barbie (Doll), n.
[UK] J. Carstairs Concrete Kimono 161: I [...] was removed once more in the jeep, this time en route for the local Bastille.
at bastille, n.
[UK] J.P. Carstairs Concrete Kimono 48: ‘You’ve noticed I’m toting a Betsy.’ ‘Betsy?’ ‘Equalizer, rod, gat, iron.’.
at betsy, n.
[UK] P. Carstairs Concrete Kimono 159: I appeared to be surrounded by the bluebottles.
at bluebottle, n.
[UK] J.P. Carstairs Concrete Kimono 172: I have been bonked on the head, dam’ near blown to glory in a wired car —.
at bonk, v.
[UK] J.P. Carstairs Concrete Kimono 78: You’ll be tickety-boo in next to no time.
at tickety-boo, adj.
[UK] J.P. Carstairs Concrete Kimono 9: An undesirable brekker kipper.
at brekker, n.
[UK] J.P. Carstairs Concrete Kimono 169: I say, are you going to marry my bro’?
at bro, n.1
[UK] J.P. Carstairs Concrete Kimono 97: By the time I had picked my ignominious self up, Reba had made a buffalo to the door. ‘Stop that girl!’ I shouted.
at make a buffalo (v.) under buffalo, n.1
[UK] J.P. Carstairs Concrete Kimono 54: All religiously stacked with thousands of other pieces of bumpf.
at bumf, n.
[UK] J.P. Carstairs Concrete Kimono 9: Pardon the burp.
at burp, n.
[UK] J.P. Carstairs Concrete Kimono 15: I’m a fourteen-carat whore.
at eighteen-carat, adj.
[UK] J.P. Carstairs Concrete Kimono 112: Lily happens to be my ‘daily.’ My char.
at char, n.1
[UK] J.P. Carstairs Concrete Kimono 232: ‘Tell her to — herself!’ ‘Charming!’ I said.
at charming!, excl.
[UK] J.P. Carstairs Concrete Kimono 215: Roderick must have given them ‘the chat’ for they saluted me as if I really had made the Big Time.
at chat, n.3
[UK] J.P. Carstairs Concrete Kimono 37: ‘Christmas, Gar’!’ she suddenly exclaimed ‘What the hell’s that?’.
at Christmas!, excl.
[UK] J.P. Carstairs Concrete Kimono 36: We clinched.
at clinch, v.
[UK] J.P. Carstairs Concrete Kimono 80: The players are liable to clock the ref., I’m told. Throw bottles.
at clock, v.1
[UK] J.P. Carstairs Concrete Kimono 30: O.K. I’d goofed (for U.S. readers) or cocked-up (for the British).
at cock up, v.
[UK] J.P. Carstairs Concrete Kimono 166: Cut the comedy!
at cut the comedy (v.) under comedy, n.
[UK] J.P. Carstairs Concrete Kimono 51: What are you asking for — a concrete kimono?
at concrete overcoat, n.
[UK] J.P. Carstairs Concrete Kimono 228: Unless you’ve got a desire for the Deep Six, it seems a good idea.
at deep six, n.
[UK] J.P. Carstairs Concrete Kimono 188: I blinked [...] trying to read what was going on in that highly dazzling but highly dicey mind.
at dicey, adj.
[UK] J.P. Carstairs Concrete Kimono 7: I groaned. My head had the little men banging on anvils [...] working on double-bubble.
at double bubble (n.) under double, adj.
[UK] J.P. Carstairs Concrete Kimono 10: Your Lord Mayor is a dreamboat.
at dreamboat, n.
[UK] J.P. Carstairs Concrete Kimono 195: ‘Drunkie’ Lewin’s few words, no bull, no big-time ‘Rah-Rah’ pep talk.
at drunkie, adj.
[UK] J.P. Carstairs Concrete Kimono 100: ‘Well, if you haven’t a deringer—’ ‘A what?’ ‘An equalizer, a gun—’.
at equalizer, n.
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