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[US] P. Cornwell Point of Origin (1999) 191: And to be honest, I don’t like that worth a damn, either.
at worth a damn under worth a..., phr.
[US] P. Cornwell Point of Origin (1999) 209: I like you a lot, even if you are a pain in the fucking ass.
at pain in the arse, n.
[US] P. Cornwell Point of Origin (1999) 152: One minute a zombie and bar-hopping the next.
at bar-hop, v.
[US] P. Cornwell Point of Origin (1999) 165: I’ll be there with bells on.
at with bells on under bell, n.1
[US] P. Cornwell Point of Origin (1999) 154: She did a blitz mailing.
at blitz, n.
[US] P. Cornwell Point of Origin (1999) 367: Petty, spiteful, chicken shit generated by an ignorant, little mind.
at chickenshit, n.
[US] P. Cornwell Point of Origin (1999) 2: This letter’s probably not from her at all. Probably some other cuckoo.
at cuckoo, n.1
[US] P. Cornwell Point of Origin (1999) 331: That’s another freaky thing.
at freaky, adj.1
[US] P. Cornwell Point of Origin (1999) 363: He was dealing with someone who knew what the shit he was doing.
at what the fuck, phr.
[US] P. Cornwell Point of Origin (1999) 190: Is there any reason Carrie might know where you guys live?
at guy, n.2
[US] P. Cornwell Point of Origin (1999) 191: This is the sort of neighborhood she would hang in.
at hang, v.3
[US] P. Cornwell Point of Origin (1999) 37: Thankfully, Pepper doesn’t hit on alcohol [...] Because there’s about a thousand gallons of bourbon out here.
at hit on, v.
[US] P. Cornwell Point of Origin (1999) 37: That’s a hell of a lot of hooch for one guy.
at hooch, n.1
[US] P. Cornwell Point of Origin (1999) 205: I’m on the horn.
at horn, n.2
[US] P. Cornwell Point of Origin (1999) 57: ‘You’re getting kooky on me,’ I said as I imagined wolves and campfires in the night.
at kooky, adj.
[US] P. Cornwell Point of Origin (1999) 179: Unless you’re dealing with a loony tune, you don’t find killers mutilating the faces of victims.
at looney tune, n.
[US] P. Cornwell Point of Origin (1999) 113: Ball. Remington nine-mill.
at mill, n.2
[US] P. Cornwell Point of Origin (1999) 152: Prozac weirded her out.
at weird out, v.
[US] P. Cornwell Point of Origin (1999) 86: Don’t even consider pinning this on me.
at pin on (v.) under pin, v.
[US] P. Cornwell Point of Origin (1999) 140: ‘Geez, who pissed in your cornflakes?’ Marino answered back.
at piss, v.
[US] P. Cornwell Point of Origin (1999) 62: ‘Until that Coke machine out front quits,’ the woman said with a wink.
at quit, v.
[US] P. Cornwell Point of Origin (1999) 17: Did you know you have a peeper in this ritzy white-bread place?
at ritzy, adj.
[US] P. Cornwell Point of Origin (1999) 272: To be honest, it makes the rest of us schleps afraid to be around you, afraid you’ll look at us and disapprove.
at schlep, n.1
[US] P. Cornwell Point of Origin (1999) 162: ‘It’s called a shark attack.’ ‘Uh oh. Damn fucking lawyers. Who was it this time?’.
at shark, n.
[US] P. Cornwell Point of Origin (1999) 164: What the shit’s going on?
at what the shit...?, phr.
[US] P. Cornwell Point of Origin (1999) 236: Maybe things got out of control and went to shit.
at go to shit under shit, n.
[US] P. Cornwell Point of Origin (1999) 70: Meaning yours truly here is stuck on this case like a fly on a pest strip.
at yours truly, n.
[US] P. Cornwell Point of Origin (1999) 26: You’re talking to the expert in weird-ass names and how they fit the squirrels who have them.
at weird-ass (adj.) under weird, adj.
[US] P. Cornwell Point of Origin (1999) 6: The whirlybird’s picking us up before dawn.
at whirlybird, n.
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