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[UK] J. Hawes Dead Long Enough 72: It’s fucking A1 dismal.
at A-1, adv.
[UK] J. Hawes Dead Long Enough 10: All arranged nicely so that Harry MacDonald can piss ironically about with them in that disarming way he has.
at piss about, v.
[UK] J. Hawes Dead Long Enough 231: Stop me if I’m utterly arsewise on this: but would you be that Harry Mac-Donald off the telly?
at arsewise (adj.) under arse, n.
[UK] J. Hawes Dead Long Enough 63: Swilling Guiness round the campfires with big-arsed digging chicks.
at -arsed, sfx
[UK] J. Hawes Dead Long Enough 274: I spent years of my twenties [...] seriously studying, getting fucking ridiculously overeducated and tightarsed.
at tight-arsed, adj.
[UK] J. Hawes Dead Long Enough 147: The Wop was like a pig in shit: happily squashed between youthful limbs.
at ...a pig in shit under happy as..., adj.
[UK] J. Hawes Dead Long Enough 194: You asked her for a kiss, asked like a bollockless twat.
at ballock, n.
[UK] J. Hawes Dead Long Enough 100: Taxi! Taxi, ya bollix!
at ballocks, n.
[UK] J. Hawes Dead Long Enough 181: You think you need a huge fucking brain to get a Ph.D.? Balls.
at balls!, excl.
[UK] J. Hawes Dead Long Enough 119: I know it’s all balls.
at balls, n.
[UK] J. Hawes Dead Long Enough 13: If you cannot hack life [...] after just one pathetic little old-fashioned night on the batter, you should not be doing it at all.
at batter, n.3
[UK] J. Hawes Dead Long Enough 285: With these forty winters under my widening belt.
at under one’s belt under belt, n.
[UK] J. Hawes Dead Long Enough 61: I scanned for Harry among the massed big-heads.
at big head, n.1
[UK] J. Hawes Dead Long Enough 302: Oh shit, just to see the Bill get a proper pasting for once.
at Bill, the, n.
[UK] J. Hawes Dead Long Enough 262: You Brits take the sheer shagging biscuit.
at take the biscuit, v.
[UK] J. Hawes Dead Long Enough 278: I get shitfaced about once every five days on more than just the black stuff.
at black stuff, n.1
[UK] J. Hawes Dead Long Enough 85: He still had that ridiculous tang in his TV accent, that helpful suggestion of blarney.
at blarney, n.1
[UK] J. Hawes Dead Long Enough 124: Slim is absolutely bollock-all to do with evolution.
at bollock-all (n.) under bollock, n.
[UK] J. Hawes Dead Long Enough 272: None of us had seen him since he left Britland.
at Britland (n.) under Brit, n.
[UK] J. Hawes Dead Long Enough 139: When was the last time you found yourself looking at someone after they just said or did something [...] and thinking: Well, bugger me?
at bugger me! (excl.) under bugger, v.1
[UK] J. Hawes Dead Long Enough 272: We arrived at Dublin mildly charlied up again.
at charlied, adj.
[UK] J. Hawes Dead Long Enough 245: Donal, I really think we have the bastard cold this time.
at cold, adv.
[UK] J. Hawes Dead Long Enough 32: Difficult, Brainy, Tall and Skinny, as a come-on in the virtual Personal Columns of life, appreciates over the years.
at come-on, n.
[UK] J. Hawes Dead Long Enough 21: You think that all these tossers over twenty-five have somehow chosen their copped-out lives.
at cop-out, adj.
[UK] J. Hawes Dead Long Enough 66: Any moment now Harry would up and propel us all towards whatever unknown crappery we were booked for tonight.
at crappery, n.
[UK] J. Hawes Dead Long Enough 242: I did not hear exactly what he was saying, but it included the terms ‘ya fucking bollix’ and ‘I’ll crease you, you cunt’.
at crease, v.
[UK] J. Hawes Dead Long Enough 262: You really do think we’re all a bunch of eejit culchies, don’t you?
at culchie, n.
[UK] J. Hawes Dead Long Enough 72: We can’t bring Salvador Dali through airport security.
at Salvador Dali, n.
[UK] J. Hawes Dead Long Enough 244: Dead on so!
at dead on, adj.
[UK] J. Hawes Dead Long Enough 101: Ending up in the lumpy Death Seat, perfect for being fired out through the screen.
at death seat (n.) under death, n.
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