• wipe out

• blue-button

• chaperone

• clubhouse

• a laughing-stock

• jocose

• I'm inclined to believe her.

• appal/ appeal

• journo

• blogebrity

• placate

• contemporary

• squish

• nail-biting

• lie/ lay

• curia / curio

• weekend warrior

• funny business

• draw out

• rib

• sit up

• do a dump on someone or something

• paper over something; paper some- thing over

• breathe of

• rank and file

• make a boo-boo

• mad money

• to put out feelers

• Mickey D's

• pew

• annoy / enjoy

• cushion/ pillow

• not worth a damn/ plugged nickel/ beans

• corps/ corpse/ corpus

• grind away at

• enquire (inquire) into

• an Aladdin's cave

• dehisce

• envelop / envelope

• sweatshop

• skittish market

• mundane

• legwork

• black economy

• blockbuster

• vim

• urk

• shallowness

• all over it

• squeak through

• potty

• took

• right as rain

• tinkle

• riant

• tick sb off <I>pot</I>.

• idwic

• lighten up

• That's the way the cookie crumbles.

• burn rubber

• click for

• sticky

• seize up

• hold all the aces

• Contrary to popular belief, you can win with these people.

• to make headway

• set back

• stale cheque

• super-duper; super-dooper

• to work on a shoe string

• heat

• distract

• easy / simple

• swig

• beat

• valuejet

• to come off well

• kipe

• dicey

• four-bits

• kick in the teeth

• to be cheesed off

• schmuck*

• to meet sb halfway

• get outta here!

• plug nickel

• skate

• run over

• paid

• What's cooking?

• other/ another

• Name your poison.

• mac out

• stick around

• flub (up), flub-up

• spot cash / cash on delivery

• subacid

• dog meat

• peaceful/ peaceable

• redlining

• muster up

• café / coffee

• stinker

• scale

• amber / ember

• ace in the hole

• split off

• hump it (to somewhere)

• shop around / shop round

• African black

• wrinkle

• run off

• N.B.T.

• hard/tough nut to crack <I>pot</I>.

• slash/slush

• maintain

• That's the way the mop flops.

• belt out

• sipid

• hip-shooter

• stash

• find out

• droog

• setback

• shelf / shelve

• debris

• prepense

• deception

• labonza

• get it on

• ducks

• kidult

• play hell/ devil/ hob with sm or st*

• to bring (sth) under the hammer

• hefty

• metrosexual

• go Dutch

• fall out of bed

• catnap

• hazardous

• yegg

• skate over

• alternative/ alternate

• do a snow job on someone

• laughing soup/ water

• protracted

• big stink

• local

• vaccination

• high and dry

• cooler

• inferior

• juggle

• explode / exploit

• urge on

• squirrel

• burn down

• flush off

• chill someone's action

• leapfrog

• hatt

• bash

• pounds

• cinch

• take a load off one's feet

• preserve (verb)

• come into

• all Rolls-Royce team

• cry up

• tunnel vision

• rep

• leap out of

• predispose to

• milquetoast

• damp off

• have egg on one's face

• to wipe the smile off someone's face

• monkey with someone

• erection

• scoop

• blue-pencil

• come-hither look

• putz*

• hatch

• have the hungries

• kiss the dust

• to plunge / to plummet

• stick together

• banging the market

• plastic

• sail (right) through something

• stake someone to something

• dish the dirt

• half-under

• pencil-pusher

• cross someone (up); cross up someone

• sub

• gobble

• schoolboy Scotch

• command