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[US] P. Cornwell Body of Evidence (1992) 310: They still lie to you, tuck the animal in bed and spoon-feed him chicken soup like he’s Mr. Apple Pie America.
at apple pie, adj.
[US] P. Cornwell Body of Evidence (1992) 127: Old Man Hunt who thinks his only kid’s a fuckin’ fairy because you’re not a mean-ass-son-of-a-bitch slumlord who don’t give a shit about anybody’s welfare or feelings.
at mean-ass, adj.
[US] P. Cornwell Body of Evidence (1992) 54: Maybe I’m shooting blanks, Pete.
at shoot a blank (v.) under blank, n.
[US] P. Cornwell Body of Evidence (1992) 376: His eighty-one Mercury Lynx blew the transmission.
at blow, v.2
[US] P. Cornwell Body of Evidence (1992) 315: So he was approached in a men’s room and lost his cookies? What happened? What psychosis?
at lose one’s cookies (v.) under cookie, n.1
[US] P. Cornwell Body of Evidence (1992) 367: What better time than when you’re half crocked and getting out of your car on a dark driveway in the middle of nowhere?
at crocked, adj.
[US] P. Cornwell Body of Evidence (1992) 175: ‘I don’t suppose he’s a journalist for some tabloid,’ I said in jest. ‘Yo. Dream on.’.
at dream on!, excl.
[US] P. Cornwell Body of Evidence (1992) 49: You got any idea how many frootloops call in this kind of crap on a regular basis?
at fruit loop, n.2
[US] P. Cornwell Body of Evidence (1992) 309: I just might [...] slap you with a warrant and haul your ass off to lockup for accessory to murder.
at haul oneself (v.) under haul, v.
[US] P. Cornwell Body of Evidence (1992) 127: They was sorry as hell to see you leave.
at as hell (adv.) under hell, n.
[US] P. Cornwell Body of Evidence (1992) 365: We finally caught up with him at Sloppy Joe’s, by which time he was three sheets to the wind.
at three sheets in the wind, phr.
[US] P. Cornwell Body of Evidence (1992) 232: He related to her killer to the point he freaked, took himself out of circulation, kissed off before he cracked.
at kiss off, v.
[US] P. Cornwell Body of Evidence (1992) 211: Sometimes he snitches a little, other times he zips his lip.
at zip one’s lip, v.
[US] P. Cornwell Body of Evidence (1992) 266: ‘You prefer light meat, don’t you?’ he asked, selecting a pale flesh-colored male chest.
at white meat, n.
[US] P. Cornwell Body of Evidence (1992) 310: Swear to God I’ll pop ’im if I have to, nail his ass.
at nail someone’s hide to the (barn) door (v.) under nail, v.
[US] P. Cornwell Body of Evidence (1992) 174: If he was, it’d probably be soprano after the number you done on him.
at do a number on (v.) under number, n.
[US] P. Cornwell Body of Evidence (1992) 247: One of the queerbaits from the restaurant she wrote about in her letters is dying of AIDS even as we speak.
at queerbait (n.) under queer, n.
[US] P. Cornwell Body of Evidence (1992) 344: I told her to stay here. I told her to screw the rent, that she could stay.
at screw, v.
[US] P. Cornwell Body of Evidence (1992) 344: It’s screwed me, too, PJ. [...] I’m living Beryl’s nightmare.
at screw, v.
[US] P. Cornwell Body of Evidence (1992) 310: I hate like shit when someone lies to me.
at like shit (adv.) under shit, n.
[US] P. Cornwell Body of Evidence (1992) 376: He was reciting what he knew from conversations with his sicko pal.
at sicko, adj.
[US] P. Cornwell Body of Evidence (1992) 377: He saw it coming – what his squirrelly pal finally did to Beryl.
at squirrely, adj.
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