1999 C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 12: ‘You know you just said you didn’t give a dam. Do you know how you spell “dam?”’ ‘You spell it “d – a – m”. Tiny Indian coin – that’s what a dam is.’.at not give a damn, v.
1999 C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 188: ‘You’re twisting my arm,’ said Morse. ‘Make it three pints of Guinness,’ said Lewis.at twist someone’s arm (v.) under arm, n.
1999 C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 174: So I went over to Gloucester Green – and Bingo! Just behind the Irish pub there.at bingo!, excl.
1999 C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 27: There’s somebody coming out of the clammer in a fortnight – listen!at clammer, n.
1999 C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 228: I think he kept his cool.at keep one’s cool (v.) under cool, n.2
1999 C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 101: She’d be ‘Debbie Repp’, then; and that would be too close to ‘demi-rep’.at demi-rep, n.
1999 C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 290: Could he have fiddled a few quid here and there?at fiddle, v.2
1999 C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 63: There was the prospect of another case: a big, fat, juicy puzzle.at juicy, adj.
1999 C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 99: There’d have to be an end to all that stolen-property lark.at lark, n.2
1999 C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 296: Well ... Chap’s got to get his oats occasionally.at get one’s oats (v.) under oats, n.2
1999 C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 358: Everybody called it a ‘radio’ these days – well, everybody except Morse and one or two of the old ’uns.at old ’un (n.) under old, adj.
1999 C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 27: Like I said, that woman had more pricks than a second-hand dart-board.at more pricks than a pin-cushion under prick, n.
1999 C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 2: You’re quick on the buzzer.at quick on the draw under quick, adj.
1999 C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 77: ‘What does “The Ringer” mean to you?’ [...] ‘It’s a horse that’s raced under the name of a different horse.’.at ringer, n.
1999 C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 348: Bert, it seemed, had ‘got the screws’.at screws, the (n.) under screw, n.1
1999 C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 366: She with a succession of straight or kinky but always besotted bedmates.at straight, adj.1
1999 C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 3: I’ll just poke the thingummy, you know, around the four channels.at thingummy, n.
1999 C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 157: When the top brass had finally dispersed.at top brass (n.) under top, adj.