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[UK] P. Theroux Murder in Mount Holly (1999) 34: You can’t have wise-guys in a war, or smart-alecs either.
at smart aleck, n.
[UK] P. Theroux Murder in Mount Holly (1999) 35: They had bowled together, had dime-beers together, grabbed ass together.
at grab-ass, v.
[UK] P. Theroux Murder in Mount Holly (1999) 85: But you’re the big cheese, Charlie [...] Me and Mrs Gneiss are nothing. You’re the one who makes the rules.
at big cheese, n.
[UK] P. Theroux Murder in Mount Holly (1999) 28: ‘You’re early,’ said Miss Ball. ‘You’re an early bird.’.
at early bird, n.1
[UK] P. Theroux Murder in Mount Holly (1999) 53: So we sit here blabbing about it [...] Why don’t we do something about it?
at blab, v.
[UK] P. Theroux Murder in Mount Holly (1999) 40: There was a bit of the Irish in him [...] Full o’ blarney, he was.
at blarney, n.1
[UK] P. Theroux Murder in Mount Holly (1999) 87: Oh, botheration! [...] How can I drive the getaway car if I can’t drive?
at botheration!, excl.
[UK] P. Theroux Murder in Mount Holly (1999) 87: Oh, botheration! [...] How can I drive the getaway car if I can’t drive?
at getaway car, n.
[UK] P. Theroux Murder in Mount Holly (1999) 15: He got choked up. Something of a patriotic nature always brought rheum to his eyes.
at choked, adj.
[UK] P. Theroux Murder in Mount Holly (1999) 87: Think you can do that? Or have I got a real clinker in my platoon?
at clinker, n.7
[UK] P. Theroux Murder in Mount Holly (1999) 53: Decided to have a word in private with the manager [...] Finally went in. You guessed it! A coon in the chair! What could I do?
at coon, n.
[UK] P. Theroux Murder in Mount Holly (1999) 86: ‘Criminy sakes,’ said Miss Ball. ‘I can’t do it for the life of me.’.
at criminy!, excl.
[UK] P. Theroux Murder in Mount Holly (1999) 22: Like when you find out that your best buddy is a crumby stooge.
at crummy, adj.2
[UK] P. Theroux Murder in Mount Holly (1999) 39: Or shall I tell you he was a big producer who did me dirt?
at do dirt to someone (v.) under dirt, n.
[UK] P. Theroux Murder in Mount Holly (1999) 31: ‘He’ll talk your ear off,’ said Miss Ball.
at talk someone’s ear off (v.) under ear, n.1
[UK] P. Theroux Murder in Mount Holly (1999) 28: He dressed fit to kill and was very well-mannered.
at fit to kill under fit to..., phr.
[UK] P. Theroux Murder in Mount Holly (1999) 30: ‘They fixed him up real good. Then he learned.’ ‘Fixed him up?’ [...] ‘Beat the living stuffings out of him.’.
at fix, v.1
[UK] P. Theroux Murder in Mount Holly (1999) 19: Two voices – one from the radio, one from the seat next to him – sassed him, told him he was a useless old fool, a flop.
at flop, n.4
[UK] P. Theroux Murder in Mount Holly (1999) 63: ‘For golly sake!’ she said.
at golly, n.1
[UK] P. Theroux Murder in Mount Holly (1999) 48: ‘Years ago the Hershey Bars were the big things.’ ‘Nowadays they’re a gyp,’ said Mrs Gneiss.
at gyp, n.1
[UK] P. Theroux Murder in Mount Holly (1999) 52: The real problem is right here in our midst: the You-Know-Whos [...] they’re all as Red as they are black.
at you know who, n.
[UK] P. Theroux Murder in Mount Holly (1999) 57: This is the real thing, boy. Get the lead out of your pants.
at get the lead out (v.) under lead, n.
[UK] P. Theroux Murder in Mount Holly (1999) 59: Is it legal for some bastard with dark skin and a Party Card, all niggered-up with fancy clothes, to walk into your own bank and put his fingers all over your money?
at nigger up (v.) under nigger, n.1
[UK] P. Theroux Murder in Mount Holly (1999) 52: ‘Oodles of spunk left,’ Miss Ball interjected. ‘Oodles.’.
at oodles, n.
[UK] P. Theroux Murder in Mount Holly (1999) 34: I plugged my best friend. He used to wise around the place all the time. Had to give him the pay-off.
at payoff, n.
[UK] P. Theroux Murder in Mount Holly (1999) 51: Listened to news of the President’s [...] negotiations with what Mr Gibbon called ‘The Yellow Peril.’.
at yellow peril, n.
[UK] P. Theroux Murder in Mount Holly (1999) 16: Want to know what the Jerries were really like? Ask Pop Gibbon.
at pop, n.3
[UK] P. Theroux Murder in Mount Holly (1999) 36: All the rough-necks and shit-heads.
at roughneck, n.
[UK] P. Theroux Murder in Mount Holly (1999) 40: ‘He was a regular S.O.B.,’ said Miss Ball. ‘And I hope you know what that means ...’.
at s.o.b., n.
[UK] P. Theroux Murder in Mount Holly (1999) 49: Now if I’m imposing you just tell me scoot the blazes out of here.
at scoot, v.
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