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The Keepers of Truth choose

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[UK] M. Collins Keepers of Truth 21: He was drunk as a wheelbarrow most evenings!
at drunk as (a)..., adj.
[UK] M. Collins Keepers of Truth 4: Language changes. It ain’t worth a damn.
at not worth a damn, phr.
[UK] M. Collins Keepers of Truth 168: It probably don’t mean a hill of beans in the end.
at hill of beans, a, phr.
[UK] M. Collins Keepers of Truth 8: How my college degree wasn’t worth shit.
at not worth a shit, phr.
[UK] M. Collins Keepers of Truth 140: I went out back, sweating bricks that a neighbour might see me.
at shit a brick, v.
[UK] M. Collins Keepers of Truth 24: Good luck on the exam, precious. I hope you ace it.
at ace, v.
[UK] M. Collins Keepers of Truth 272: They were acting up for the camera.
at act up, v.
[UK] 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
[UK] M. Collins Keepers of Truth 22: Both of them animals if you ask me ...
at animal, n.1
[UK] M. Collins Keepers of Truth 186: So here we were, busting ass out on the road.
at bust ass under ass, n.
[UK] M. Collins Keepers of Truth 83: That’s no excuse to go kicking my baby.
at baby, n.
[UK] M. Collins Keepers of Truth 70: A pipe and a nickel bag of pot.
at nickel bag, n.
[UK] M. Collins Keepers of Truth 149: There was a beat-up old truck parked.
at beat-up, adj.
[UK] 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
[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] M. Collins Keepers of Truth 86: It gets ’em all mind-boggled.
at boggled, adj.
[UK] 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
[UK] 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
[UK] 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.
[UK] M. Collins Keepers of Truth 264: We never owed anybody a red cent out here.
at red cent, n.
[UK] 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.
[UK] M. Collins Keepers of Truth 67: Jesus H. Christ, I could do nothing about it.
at Jesus H. Christ!, excl.
[UK] M. Collins Keepers of Truth 268: The guy was all chummy.
at chummy, adj.
[UK] M. Collins Keepers of Truth 270: I got out by Ronny’s house, and shit, it was a circus.
at circus, n.
[UK] M. Collins Keepers of Truth 248: This town is in deep shit, my friends.
at deep shit (n.) under deep, adj.
[UK] 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
[UK] M. Collins Keepers of Truth 164: And, damn it if you’re not a regular Dick Tracy, Bill.
at Dick Tracy, n.
[UK] M. Collins Keepers of Truth 102: What the hell are you sorry for, needle dick?
at needle dick, n.
[UK] 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.
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