• dash down / off

• in deep

• a recipe for disaster/a disaster waiting to happen

• shuttle diplomacy

• sucker

• mickey mouse

• dirt cheap

• go places

• You completely miss the point, I'm afraid.

• I'm sorry I've kept you waiting.

• pull

• to blow in sth

• track in

• yumbling

• tube

• funding / foundation

• sellout

• make out

• backbiter

• throw money at something

• be down (2)

• for the birds

• to turn the stomach

• nonperson

• espial

• shit*

• Podunk

• assure/ ensure

• That's all she wrote.

• cushion/ pillow

• as for

• gutbucket

• assign

• respite

• Man!

• leadite

• attainable

• raw

• bafflegab

• Could you put in a good word for me?

• rich / reach

• set one's mind on doing sth

• jewellery

• blush for

• finger / toe

• Ain't nuttin'

• oppressive

• tad

• monkey with someone

• professed/professional

• take some doing

• devotion

• stay away

• prate

• fabricate

• to hinge on

• larry

• Marble City

• jiffy

• squish

• desk jockey

• begrudge

• grouse

• rivetes

• rip someone off; rip off someone

• pressed (for time)

• orderly

• criminal / detective story

• you're welcome <I>am</I>.

• harsh toke

• step out on

• bender

• induce

• addict

• there are no flies on him

• mouth off

• indolence

• on the slab

• pack in

• like a ton of bricks

• wipe out; wipe-out

• blue plate special

• bust

• on the chopping block

• insider dealing / insider trading

• get it on

• it's curtains for

• schlep

• go down

• scene

• The government refuses to negotiate with terrorists.

• każda pliszka swój ogonek chwali

• fly at

• recessionista

• twist (slowly) in the wind

• gander

• dish/ dishes

• persistent

• keyster

• hotkey

• hooter

• quaggy

• cite

• knocked something into a cocked hat

• interpellate

• sewermouth

• pet / fag / cigarette

• skeevy

• rinky-dink

• back off

• wildposting

• fever/fewer

• non-appearance

• envelope / envelopment

• bitterly (1)

• to take a walk

• tall in the saddle

• cuffs

• grow on

• shack up (with someone)

• When all is said and done, I think we shouldn't take it seriously.

• bore through

• blob

• idiot box

• Holy cow!

• pencil-pusher

• abject

• scope on someone; scope someone (on)

• earp

• walk away with something; walk off with something

• half-blind

• abscond

• nature's call

• put together

• go about

• show someone or something up; show up someone or something

• invitation

• get one's lumps

• to clock in / to clock on / to punch in / to check in

• key

• chapped

• Prufrockian

• fat

• allay

• severely

• hellified

• pull a fast one

• racaculous

• e-hole

• bad news

• personality promotion

• to be out of this world

• kitty

• ahizzead

• kiss something goodbye

• rollicksome

• get naked

• odd-bod

• corny

• puddle

• irrepressible

• harry

• tear up

• successfully

• lowbrow

• abbreviated piece of nothing

• grabbers

• numeral / number

• learn about /of

• pescetarian

• vest

• chickenability

• grub (sth) off (sb)

• take the pipe

• binder

• miss the boat (bus)

• discommode

• blubber

• knee-high to a grasshopper

• shoot for the sky

• lid

• nitwit

• shake up

• rattlebrain

• dispatch

• breeches part

• to drop someone a line

• fun

• gear

• terpsichorean

• conclusion

• bang for the buck

• V.I.P.

• exponent

• knock-kneed

• travel

• laid*

• hairdab

• scratch

• beemer