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[UK] J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 8: It’s a I-don’t-give-a-shit attitude like you’d have to kill the fuckers to stop them coming at you.
at don’t-give-a-damn (adj.) under not give a damn, v.
[UK] J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 277: Some get-a-life neighbourhood-watch nuisance calls the real old bill.
at get-a-life, adj.
[UK] J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 176: He woulda been after your little ring-piece if he was still around.
at -a, sfx
[UK] J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 160: I think Tiptoes might have threatened the righteous one with a bitta ABH or something stronger.
at a.b.h., n.
[UK] J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 13: He’d have disappeared down to Ibiza [...] and was still awol two or three weeks later.
at A.W.O.L., adj.
[UK] J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 42: It was all a bit of a fuckin game back then compared with now, it was a fuck-about, cops and robbers.
at fuck-about, n.
[UK] J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 192: I don’t know what the fuck you’re on about.
at on about, phr.
[UK] J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 117: Acid trips. He makes them. He’s a chemist for us.
at acid trip (n.) under acid, n.1
[UK] J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 203: He was a class act, shrewd, charming.
at class act, n.
[UK] J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 248: You was performing, acting the goat, you was gonna fuckin shoot ’em all.
at act the (giddy) goat, v.
[UK] J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 22: The word would get about that Mister Mortimer was on the firm and they would get less aggravation.
at aggravation, n.2
[UK] J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 88: The whole outing is sending the shopaholic, trust-funded girlies wild.
at -aholic, sfx
[UK] J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 16: A straight question needs a straight answer, no Jack and danny, are you willing to come on board as a partner?
at jack an’ danny, n.
[UK] J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 13: It’s a known fact that they’ll bubble you up when they’re chucking. [Ibid.] 29: They, the fuckwits, are either grafting against all odds, bubbling one another up, or bleeding starving.
at bubble (and squeak), v.
[UK] J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 121: Lucid dreams about [...] this afternoon’s disappointment over the Jack and Jills.
at jack (and jill), n.
[UK] J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 92: I bet he’s a total bread and butter in the John-Wayne-style straightener.
at bread and butter, n.2
[UK] J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 87: He’d worked his way up from kiting, laying down jeckle paper with a cheque card. [Ibid.] 100: We’d be here all night while they acted the fool did their jeckle original-gangster impression for our benefit.
at jekyll (and hyde), adj.
[UK] J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 152: Some muppet who pays a cockle for a tuna salad.
at cock and hen, n.
[UK] J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 69: What it would be like to [...] spin her over and bite her firm little bottle.
at bottle (and glass), n.
[UK] J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 158: This bottle next door reckon someone give him two grand in readies to drop the bird out.
at bottle (and glass), n.
[UK] J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 215: Jimmy would be putting the bubble in and expecting a squeeze from the Other People in return.
at put the bubble in (v.) under bubble (and squeak), v.
[UK] J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 108: Kids of ten and twelve, smoking salmon and spitting non-stop.
at salmon (and) trout, n.
[UK] J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 12: We’ve got a Junior-Yuppie-Mafia thang going down, living the life, with JPG suits, Suzuki jeeps, Champagne and whistle all the way.
at whistle (and flute), n.
[UK] J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 28: They’re been in and out of the shovel since approved school.
at shovel and pick, n.
[UK] J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 236: Very nice, chicken and rice.
at chicken and rice, adj.
[UK] J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 16: The old boy wouldn’t take any money for the Andy Pandy.
at Andy Pandy, n.
[UK] J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 266: Arsenal are at home [...] I’m on my period.
at Arsenal are at home, phr.
[UK] J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 85: Being joes who take it up the arse from the City cartels anyway, they’ll go along with the swindle.
at take it up the arse under arse, n.
[UK] J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 10: All these fuckers who [...] came across as real up-their-own-arse types.
at up one’s own arse under arse, n.
[UK] J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 282: Don’t be givin it the big ’un, yer greasy little arse-wipe.
at arsewipe, n.
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