2000 M. Collins Keepers of Truth 21: He was drunk as a wheelbarrow most evenings!at drunk as (a)..., adj.
2000 M. Collins Keepers of Truth 4: Language changes. It ain’t worth a damn.at not worth a damn, phr.
2000 M. Collins Keepers of Truth 168: It probably don’t mean a hill of beans in the end.at hill of beans, a, phr.
2000 M. Collins Keepers of Truth 8: How my college degree wasn’t worth shit.at not worth a shit, phr.
2000 M. Collins Keepers of Truth 140: I went out back, sweating bricks that a neighbour might see me.at shit a brick, v.
2000 M. Collins Keepers of Truth 71: I mean, shit, kids like them were my bread and butter, the mortar of any small paper.at bread and butter, n.1
2000 M. Collins Keepers of Truth 186: So here we were, busting ass out on the road.at bust ass under ass, n.
2000 M. Collins Keepers of Truth 269: He said I was a ‘swell’ reporter. I said ‘I don ’t need any of your beeswax.’ I could give it as good as I got it.at beeswax, n.2
2000 M. Collins Keepers of Truth 96: Showing the soft distended nub of her belly button like the tie on a balloon.at belly button (n.) under belly, n.
2000 M. Collins Keepers of Truth 119: I’d never seen a guy so bent out of shape like that over nothing.at bent out of shape (adj.) under bent, adj.
2000 M. Collins Keepers of Truth 127: Sure that’s a good couch, but you paid forty bucks in nineteen fifty-two for it, Pa.at buck, n.3
2000 M. Collins Keepers of Truth 51: He had a wife and kid who were busting his ass over money, wanting it all.at bust someone’s ass (v.) under bust, v.1
2000 M. Collins Keepers of Truth 22: I ain’t saying any man deserved to be carved up by his son, but you can’t say it wasn’t coming.at carve up, v.
2000 M. Collins Keepers of Truth 3: Sam Perkins [...] took me back into his office and chewed my ass real good.at chew (on) someone’s ass (v.) under chew, v.
2000 M. Collins Keepers of Truth 67: Jesus H. Christ, I could do nothing about it.at Jesus H. Christ!, excl.
2000 M. Collins Keepers of Truth 270: I got out by Ronny’s house, and shit, it was a circus.at circus, n.
2000 M. Collins Keepers of Truth 248: This town is in deep shit, my friends.at deep shit (n.) under deep, adj.
2000 M. Collins Keepers of Truth 78: I started up that big-ass car of mine, convertible Buick Electra deuce and a quarter.at deuce, n.1
2000 M. Collins Keepers of Truth 164: And, damn it if you’re not a regular Dick Tracy, Bill.at Dick Tracy, n.
2000 M. Collins Keepers of Truth 102: What the hell are you sorry for, needle dick?at needle dick, n.
2000 M. Collins Keepers of Truth 116: The not knowing is the hardest part, the waiting game. You see that, right, how the waiting just eats you?at eat, v.