2016 V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 100: ‘We never had a single suspect worth a damn’.at not worth a damn, phr.
2016 V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 238: What kind of arse would lift a laptop belonging to a polis.at arse, n.
2016 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.
2016 V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 279: ‘You and your smart-arsed [pals pretended that Jason was your friend’.at smart-arsed, adj.
2016 V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 397: ‘Health and safety, my backside!’.at my backside! (excl.) under backside, n.
2016 V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 40: Sometimes she wished for a bagman with a few more functioning synapses.at bagman, n.
2016 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
2016 V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 139: The usual. Analysing evidence from fires [...] The usual bollocks.at ballocks, n.
2016 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.
2016 V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 161: ‘On the batter with my flatmates. It was Matt’s birthday’.at batter, n.3
2016 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.
2016 V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 3: ‘Ya beauty,’ he yelled, grinding the car into gear.at beauty, n.1
2016 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.
2016 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.
2016 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
2016 V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 229: Jeremy laughed indulgently [...] ‘Very funny, you silly old boot’.at boot, n.2
2016 V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 247: ‘I can see that, Shirley [...] it’s a no-brainer’.at no-brainer, n.
2016 V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 138: ‘Come on, bunk off and join me’.at bunk (off) (v.) under bunk, v.1
2016 V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 201: The camera loved her. And she buttered up everybody.at butter up (v.) under butter, v.
2016 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.
2016 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.
2016 V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 65: ‘Check you out with your scary specs [...] You’re looking good’.at check out, v.2
2016 V. McDermid Out of Bounds (2017) 50: An older lad who had a clapped-out van.at clapped(-out), adj.
2016 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
2016 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.
2016 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