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The Remorseful Day choose

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[UK] 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.
[UK] 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.
[UK] C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 174: So I went over to Gloucester Green – and Bingo! Just behind the Irish pub there.
at bingo!, excl.
[UK] C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 74: So what’s biting you?
at what’s biting you? under bite, v.
[UK] C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 27: There’s somebody coming out of the clammer in a fortnight – listen!
at clammer, n.
[UK] C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 228: I think he kept his cool.
at keep one’s cool (v.) under cool, n.2
[UK] 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.
[UK] C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 371: A drink-doped, drug-doped juvenile lout.
at doped, adj.
[UK] C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 290: Could he have fiddled a few quid here and there?
at fiddle, v.2
[UK] C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 106: You’re having me on!
at have someone on, v.1
[UK] C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 57: Grammar’s not so hot, I agree.
at not so hot under hot, adj.
[UK] C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 63: There was the prospect of another case: a big, fat, juicy puzzle.
at juicy, adj.
[UK] C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 99: There’d have to be an end to all that stolen-property lark.
at lark, n.2
[UK] 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
[UK] 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.
[UK] C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 146: Just pack up the booze.
at pack up (v.) under pack, v.1
[UK] 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.
[UK] C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 2: You’re quick on the buzzer.
at quick on the draw under quick, adj.
[UK] 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.
[UK] C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 348: Bert, it seemed, had ‘got the screws’.
at screws, the (n.) under screw, n.1
[UK] C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 366: She with a succession of straight or kinky but always besotted bedmates.
at straight, adj.1
[UK] C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 3: I’ll just poke the thingummy, you know, around the four channels.
at thingummy, n.
[UK] C. Dexter Remorseful Day (2000) 157: When the top brass had finally dispersed.
at top brass (n.) under top, adj.
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