I Never Knew There Was a Word for It - Adam Jacot De Boinod [154]
Reindeer’s piss
Wanderlust
Tag-along
Wire donkey
Loosely bolted
Highway code
Jesus’s magimix
Pushmepullyou
Unknown and uneasy
Empty trip
Travellers’ tales
13. Home Sweet Home
Location, location, location
Nesting
Pulling together
Flagging the beam
Dutch decor
Frog in a well
The emperor’s throne
Toilet museum
Spatially aware
Crumb thief
14. Dinner Time
Rushed breakfast
My tapeworm is talking
Sampling
Stirring it up
Surprise water
Dead dog
Xoox
Slug in the hole
Cabbage or cheese
Your legs are long
Gobbling it down
Miss Manners
Slow Food
Menu envy
Picky
My mouth is lonely
Angel cake
Restaurant review
The condemned man is a final meal
15. One for the Road
The towel of a hippy
The milky way
Social drinking
Altered states
Vodka vocabulary
On a slippery road
Under the monkey
The morning after
Vineyard flu
16. All in a Day’s Work
Pounce and decoy
Point blank
Dodo
Spear hurling
Eel dribbling
Sea women
Bamboo cutters
Angel makers
Soul plumbers
Low profile
Horn diggers
Mice milkers
Jobsworth
Promises, promises
Pedalling in yoghurt
Counting the stars
The company tribe
Sell out
Lilies of the field
17. Game Theory
Celebrating Monday
Slow start
Idle time
Cucumber troop
Aggro
Ski-lane terror
Taking a dip
Dizzy dancing
Taking part
Suits and tricks
Live entertainment
One is fun
Stories with bears
Bookmark
Drooping tongue
Nodding off
Staying up
18. Animal Magic
The great rat with a pocket
Fluttering and kicking
Scratch, chew, tear, beat
Wriggle, wriggle
Sunday roast
Tucked away
Crocodile skid
Wa!
Down on the farm
Commanding
To the hand
Aw, aw !
How to count on your chickens
Man’s best friend
Roof-gutter rabbit
Gee gee
Moo
Drinking twice
Flying low
19. Climate Change
Tiwilight
The dawn chorus
Sun’s up
Weather report
Heat haze
The wind of change
Storm warning
Sunshine shower
In a flood
Soaking up the weather
Compass comparisons
Coucher de soleil
Silver goddess
20. The Root of All Evil
A frog’s armpit
Cutting gold
Gifted
Up against it
On the floor
It’s the thought that counts
An umbrella at midnight
Cowherd’s cake
Stall
Red shells out, white shells back
The art of selling
Smoke and mirrors
One-armed bandit
Losers
Tokyo tricks
Retail therapy
You’re safer with prison
21. The Criminal Life
Tea leaf
Gangland
Scissorhand
Kindling
Descending spiders
Radish with glasses
When crimes go wrong
Pig box
Into the pit
22. Realpolitik
Pipe and sunshade
A gift
Changing shirts
Full poodle
Muffled
Power corrupts
Talk box
Problem solving
War elephants
Cancer forces
Heroes
Yellow-bellies
War trophies
Legacy
Cucumbers and shaving brushes
23. From Better to Hearse
Fagged out
Peaky
Hypo
STD
Sweating carrots
Quack remedies
Docteur, docteur
Surgical spirit
Hex
The devil’s in the detail
Recuperation
Curtains
Clogs and slippers
A thousand cuts
Another way to go
Stiff
Feet first
Funeral crashers
In loving memory
Hex revenge
Radish tips
24. The Great Beyond
Fancy meeting you again
Just a jealous guy
Holy cockerel
Broken sewing needles
One who understands
Candle cormorant
On a hedgehog’s back
Sounds better
Charismatic
Whistling in the wind
The crystal ball
Fringed