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  • It's being six foot two and desperate-looking that does it, you know; if I'd been short-arsed with no chin and knock-knees, no one in search of a hero would have looked at me twice.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • Carla Bruni's short-arsed spouse has sorted it all out today.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • "Any relation to a paranoid, short-arsed soap-dodger?"

    Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

  • Wednesday morning, said short-arsed soapdodger is looking at a floorplan of Craigurquhart House when he notices that the two unfortunate bodyguards were shot through the forehead at one end of a fifleenyard-long corridor with no doors off it.

    Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

  • She was an excrudatingly petite bluestocking with a fruitily upper-class accent; interngent, educated, charming and almost irritatingly attractive, but with the inexplicable flaw of a sexual craving for short-arsed Glaswegian investigative journalists who could break into hotel rooms.

    Quite Ugly One Morning Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1996

  • Another short-arsed surgeon with small-man syndrome, barking orders at everyone because he's got a point to prove.

    Quite Ugly One Morning Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1996

  • It's being six foot two and desperate-looking that does it, you know; if I'd been short-arsed with no chin and knock-knees, no one in search of a hero would have looked at me twice.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • It's being six foot two and desperate-looking that does it, you know; if I'd been short-arsed with no chin and knock-knees, no one in search of a hero would have looked at me twice.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • Obviously, I should have said something like, "by being grown-up human beings, you short-arsed prat".

    Top stories from Times Online 2010

  • He came out, started singing and took one look at the 14-foot drop off the Apollo's stage and retreated to the piano at the back of the stage which of course meant that hordes of people in the front rows couldn't see the irascible short-arsed Irishman.

    Word Magazine - Comments 2009

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