• vigilance

• bar

• answer back

• blanket/ form

• conclusion

• nosedive

• I have my doubts about this trip.

• Does that seem to make sense?

• shark

• jeff

• bring in

• comma-counter

• all-nighter

• night person

• hermit

• tank

• in the alloted time

• peremptory

• propel

• Q.

• advise on

• hassle

• whole bag of tricks

• honker

• set one's face against sth

• steep

• blusterer

• clamour for

• Saturday night special

• Hollywood

• dumb-ass; stupid-ass

• jump down

• Knock it off!

• beer / bear

• cack

• potty mouth; toilet mouth

• green light

• vie with

• off

• narc; narco

• switch on

• fry

• keanu

• devote

• knock-out agreement

• schedule

• live out

• Says who?

• take a gander (at someone or something)

• give someone the brushoff

• poke

• breakdown / break down

• ankle

• sore

• earful

• biweekly/semiweekly

• phony as a three-dollar bill

• leave off

• Were you born in a barn?

• breach / breech

• back down

• badger into

• close down

• drink up

• umbrella advertising

• how

• to boom

• bring someone down; bring down someone

• in the catbird seat

• edgy

• mountebank

• fit-out

• old man

• shoehorn (verb)

• grungy

• talk sb's head off <I>pot</I>.

• crisp up

• repo

• in the buff

• con man

• Don't exaggerate! You have everything you could wish for.

• daily grind

• edged

• put something away; put away someone

• rip on someone

• move on

• copy

• eggbeater

• to run amok

• Sez me!

• freeze someone out; freeze out someone

• junk yard

• a City man

• steam someone's beam

• trashy

• punker

• cloudiness

• back office / backroom

• popper

• cite

• to waste one's breath

• noddy

• coffin stack

• in the chips

• whiskey tenor

• probe

• in the black

• shoppe

• responsibility

• swaggerer

• intimidating

• talk about

• to call in

• riveted

• honey

• melting

• to trade in

• rolf

• advergame

• envelop / envelope

• schlock

• groggy

• get with someone

• jig is up

• warden

• edged

• lump

• You must weigh the pros and cons.

• dig in

• Bahama-mama

• demimondaine

• rac

• anticity

• lowbrow

• creased

• whaling

• sign away

• hell of a note

• Break it up!

• yuck

• goofball

• tobacco/ snuff

• clip

• folks

• to pick holes

• hand it to someone

• a nanny state

• excoriate

• to be foxed

• glazed (drunk); glazed (over)

• yuck

• potbelly

• flivver

• television/ radio

• hardline

• cloth/ clothes/ clothing/ clothe

• bundle up

• to be in a fix

• mordant

• get across

• shit-faced*

• platform

• bigheaded

• return

• in the (home) stretch

• panache

• Never mind, let's leave it at that for today.

• long tall Sally

• prexy

• arty

• gander

• babeldom

• flatfoot; flatty

• broad/ wide

• There, there. It's not the end of the world, is it?

• hissy fit

• murky

• complain

• harp on

• blade

• nutcake

• down

• until kingdom come

• clog

• make out

• gauge

• eco freak; eco nut

• yo-yo; yoyo

• amorist

• hungry

• skate

• jug

• to go places

• wedge

• joint

• faltering

• a cold fish

• talk away

• dolefully

• flip over