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[UK] C. Dexter Last Seen Wearing in Second Inspector Morse Omnibus (1994) 418: I don’t think he’s completely above-board with me.
at above board, adj.
[UK] C. Dexter Last Seen Wearing in Second Inspector Morse Omnibus (1994) 365: You’re not a very good policeman. You’re too airy-fairy.
at airy-fairy, adj.
[UK] C. Dexter Last Seen Wearing in Second Inspector Morse Omnibus (1994) 515: It’s some clown of a sergeant who’s ballsed the whole thing up.
at balls up, v.
[UK] C. Dexter Last Seen Wearing in Second Inspector Morse Omnibus (1994) 382: It may have gone with the last pile. Blast.
at blast!, excl.
[UK] C. Dexter Last Seen Wearing in Second Morse Omnibus (1994) 451: I shan’t give two buggers if we never find her.
at not give a bugger (v.) under bugger, n.3
[UK] C. Dexter Last Seen Wearing in Second Morse Omnibus (1994) 522: She’s buggered off with Maguire, I suppose.
at bugger off, v.
[UK] C. Dexter Last Seen Wearing (1994) 405: ‘Will it buggery!’ said Morse.
at ...buggery!, excl.
[UK] C. Dexter Last Seen Wearing in Second Morse Omnibus (1994) 434: Ainley thought she was bumped off.
at bump (off), v.
[UK] C. Dexter Last Seen Wearing in The Second Inspector Morse Omnibus (1994) 450: I think Baines knows a hell of a lot more about the whole caboodle than anybody.
at whole caboodle (n.) under caboodle, n.
[UK] C. Dexter Last Seen Wearing in Second Inspector Morse Omnibus ) (1994) 511: Somebody caught him with one of the girls with his trousers down.
at catch someone with their pants down (v.) under catch, v.1
[UK] C. Dexter Last Seen Wearing in Second Morse Omnibus (1994) 450: Phillipson would be a dead duck then, and they’d have to appoint a new headmaster.
at dead duck, n.
[UK] C. Dexter Last Seen Wearing in Second Inspector Morse Omnibus (1994) 392: As if she was in a dickens of a hurry to meet somebody.
at dickens, the, phr.
[UK] C. Dexter Last Seen Wearing in Second Morse Omnibus (1994) 450: And what a dog’s breakfast he’d made of it all!
at dog’s dinner, n.
[UK] C. Dexter Last Seen Wearing in Second Morse Omnibus (1994) 444: Thinking of nothing but that great lump of gristle hanging between your legs.
at gristle, n.
[UK] C. Dexter Last Seen Wearing in Second Morse Omnibus (1994) 368: Mona Lisa with the guts-ache.
at gut-ache (n.) under gut, n.
[UK] C. Dexter Last Seen Wearing in Second Inspector Morse Omnibus (1994) 384: A honey of a girl from Brighton.
at honey, n.1
[UK] C. Dexter Last Seen Wearing in Second Morse Omnibus (1994) 364: You mean she just hopped it and – that was that.
at hop it, v.
[UK] C. Dexter Last Seen Wearing in Second Inspector Morse Omnibus (1994) 363: Most women of her type would surely go for [...] something with a bigger kick than Coke.
at kick, n.5
[UK] C. Dexter Last Seen Wearing in Second Morse Omnibus (1994) 361: The whole thing must have cost the Local Authority a real packet.
at cost a packet (v.) under packet, n.
[UK] C. Dexter Last Seen Wearing in Second Morse Omnibus (1994) 405: The last thing that Morse wanted at this juncture was a rough-house.
at roughhouse, n.
[UK] C. Dexter Last Seen Wearing in Second Morse Omnibus (1994) 445: There’s an old saying, isn’t there – if you’ll excuse the language – about not shitting on your own doorstep.
at shit on one’s own doorstep (v.) under shit, v.
[UK] C. Dexter Last Seen Wearing in Second Morse Omnibus (1994) 533: He was a shithouse.
at shithouse, n.
[UK] C. Dexter Last Seen Wearing in Second Morse Omnibus (1994) 406: Look, you miserable sod. You want a fight?
at sod, n.1
[UK] C. Dexter Last Seen Wearing in 2nd Inspector Morse Omnibus (1994) 406: Where shall we go, you dirty little squit?
at squit, n.1
[UK] C. Dexter Last Seen Wearing in Second Morse Omnibus (1994) 404: Ever been to a strip club, Lewis?
at strip joint (n.) under strip, v.
[UK] C. Dexter Last Seen Wearing in Second Morse Omnibus (1994) 436: And what did the old twerp have to say this time?
at twerp, n.
[UK] C. Dexter Last Seen Wearing in Second Morse Omnibus (1994) 360: He was getting lost: waffle on, keep talking.
at waffle, v.1
[UK] C. Dexter Last Seen Wearing in Second Morse Omnibus (1994) 516: Abortions still get done unofficially – no doubt for a whacking private fee.
at whacking, adj.
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