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stonepicnicking_okapi ([personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-06-04 03:55 pm
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Word: Banjax

I haven't don't one of these since April, but I've come across some new-to-me words.

Wednesday's word is...

...banjax.


1. ruin, incapacitate, or break.


I found this new-to-me word in the Inspector Rebus I just finished (Saints of the Shadow Bible).

"...Reckons we banjaxed the Saunders case to keep a good snitch on the street."

I would also like to add this saying (also new-to-me) from the same which is very Rebus.

Fair exchange is no robbery

That is definitely going to be the title of my next hard-boiled detective fic. It's great.
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[personal profile] smallhobbit 2025-06-04 08:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I like 'banjax' although I don't think I've ever actually used it.