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The Daughters of Cain choose

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[UK] C. Dexter Daughters of Cain (1995) 38: She just about takes the biscuit, that woman – give or take one or two congenitally compulsive liars we’ve had in the past.
at take the biscuit, v.
[UK] C. Dexter Daughters of Cain (1995) 191: It was so quick to Brum now [...] they’d do it in an hour almost.
at Brum, n.
[UK] C. Dexter Daughters of Cain (1995) 333: You know what’s buggering us up the whole time, don’t you? It’s simply that we’re going to have one helluva job making a case against anybody.
at bugger up, v.
[UK] C. Dexter Daughters of Cain (1995) 374: You think she’s done a bunk?
at do a/the bunk (v.) under bunk, n.1
[UK] C. Dexter Daughters of Cain (1995) 295: ‘That would mean the alibis they’ve fixed up for themselves have gone for a Burton.’ ‘What’s the origin of that phrase?’ Morse shook his head. ‘Something to do with beer, is it?’.
at go for a Burton (v.) under Burton, n.
[UK] C. Dexter Daughters of Cain (1995) 372: I wish we could have gone out for shampers together.
at champers, n.
[UK] C. Dexter Daughters of Cain (1995) 45: He handed across a postcard marking the relevant page of notes [...] including a chicken-hearted comment on Glubit.
at chicken-hearted, adj.
[UK] C. Dexter Daughters of Cain (1995) 372: I’m not much cop at writing.
at no cop under cop, n.2
[UK] C. Dexter Daughters of Cain (1995) 6: I’ve got this gut-feeling that Phillotson wouldn’t have got very far with it anyway.
at gut, adj.
[UK] C. Dexter Daughters of Cain (1995) 237: And if they wanted to know whether she’d woken up with a bad head, the answer was ‘yes’ – a bloody dreadful head.
at head, n.
[UK] C. Dexter Daughters of Cain (1995) 111: ‘Lordy me!’ Brenda managed to say in her soft Oxfordshire burr.
at lordy me!, excl.
[UK] C. Dexter Daughters of Cain (1995) 189: What about a little ride with me, darlin’? I got the necessaries.
at necessaries, n.
[UK] C. Dexter Daughters of Cain (1995) 175: I remember a few weeks ago trying to get rid of an old soldier in a rubbish bin in Banbury Road.
at old soldier, n.
[UK] C. Dexter Daughters of Cain (1995) 261: Phone plonked down pronto.
at plonk, v.
[UK] C. Dexter Daughters of Cain (1995) 372: She’s getting a bit of a smasher, that one.
at smasher, n.2
[UK] C. Dexter Daughters of Cain (1995) 280: Like I told you, I’m gettin’ spliced – got to be a respectable girl now.
at splice, v.
[UK] C. Dexter Daughters of Cain (1995) 258: We were both tight as ticks later that night.
at tight as a tick (adj.) under tight, adj.
[UK] C. Dexter Daughters of Cain (1995) 42: To totters and toffs – in a levelish ratio – / My darling K offers her five-quid fellatio.
at totter, n.
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