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[Scot] V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 100: ‘We never had a single suspect worth a damn’.
at not worth a damn, phr.
[Scot] V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 238: What kind of arse would lift a laptop belonging to a polis.
at arse, n.
[Scot] V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 406: ‘I know I’m a pain in the arse too. But you know I’m right’.
at pain in the arse, n.
[Scot] V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 279: ‘You and your smart-arsed [pals pretended that Jason was your friend’.
at smart-arsed, adj.
[Scot] V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 397: ‘Health and safety, my backside!’.
at my backside! (excl.) under backside, n.
[Scot] V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 40: Sometimes she wished for a bagman with a few more functioning synapses.
at bagman, n.
[Scot] V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 176: ‘They’ve got no other obvious candidate to bollock so I’m today’s bollockee of choice’ .
at bollockee under ballock, v.2
[Scot] V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 139: The usual. Analysing evidence from fires [...] The usual bollocks.
at ballocks, n.
[Scot] V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 40: You’re barking up the wrong tree. My Stewart has nothing to do with any crime you’re trying to pin on him.
at bark up the wrong tree, v.
[Scot] V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 161: ‘On the batter with my flatmates. It was Matt’s birthday’.
at batter, n.3
[Scot] V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 201: ‘Did she know she was a beard? Or did she think there was nothing going on between you?’.
at beard, n.
[Scot] V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 3: ‘Ya beauty,’ he yelled, grinding the car into gear.
at beauty, n.1
[Scot] V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 342: They weren’t big on fun.
at big on (adj.) under big, adj.
[Scot] V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 176: ‘Some bastard leaked big time’.
at big-time, adv.
[Scot] V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 112: Tomorrow she’s bite the bullet and sort out some flyers.
at bite the bullet (v.) under bite, v.
[Scot] V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 300: So I blagged my way past the Macaroon by telling him this must be how it happened.
at blag, v.
[Scot] V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 320: ‘Should I be talking to the local bobbies about popping round with a search warrant?’.
at bobby, n.1
[Scot] V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 229: Jeremy laughed indulgently [...] ‘Very funny, you silly old boot’.
at boot, n.2
[Scot] V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 247: ‘I can see that, Shirley [...] it’s a no-brainer’.
at no-brainer, n.
[Scot] V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 138: ‘Come on, bunk off and join me’.
at bunk (off) (v.) under bunk, v.1
[Scot] V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 201: The camera loved her. And she buttered up everybody.
at butter up (v.) under butter, v.
[Scot] V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 62: ‘I’m only playing catch-up with my in-tray’.
at play catch-up (v.) under catch-up, n.
[Scot] V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 77: If our killer’s still around? He might decide that, rather than chance it’.
at chance it (v.) under chance, v.
[Scot] V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 65: ‘Check you out with your scary specs [...] You’re looking good’.
at check out, v.2
[Scot] V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 50: An older lad who had a clapped-out van.
at clapped(-out), adj.
[Scot] V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 70: ‘My case isn’t cold yet’.
at cold, adj.
[Scot] V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 279: ‘Don’t come the cowboy with me, son’.
at come the..., v.
[Scot] V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 320: ‘I don’t care if you’ve got smuggled fags or dodgy vodka in your crib’.
at crib, n.1
[Scot] V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 385: The man he thought was his real dad was pushing up the daisies two years before he was even born.
at push up (the) daisies, v.
[Scot] V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 57: She was getting a lot more support with the kids, now she’d ditched Victor.
at ditch, v.1
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