• assimilate with

• mark time

• carry weight

• a dab hand

• zap

• civic

• settle a score (with someone); have a score to settle (with someone)

• a crumb of comfort

• carry the day

• say uncle

• many-sided

• fling at

• return

• craze

• paid

• shill

• grub along / away

• harrowing

• blown away

• rock

• send along

• oppose sth/ be opposed to sth

• That's my boy!

• actual

• If you were to live abroad, which country would you choose?

• yap

• hustle

• L.B.O. ; LBO

• fizgig

• you're welcome <I>am</I>.

• shopaholism

• come up with

• quote, unquote

• pretty penny

• puter

• to run up

• abbreviated piece of nothing

• emote

• peachy

• metrosexual

• blunder into

• reader

• comfy

• package

• whale on

• remote/ abandon(ed)

• gain over

• career coach

• live up to

• push aside

• clubhouse

• tope

• bobo

• let something ride

• absent

• banger

• for reals?

• flop

• put something away; put away someone

• bum about/around/round

• sinker

• back number

• species / spices

• grow out of

• off the wall; off-the-wall

• rock bottom

• blow one's lunch

• originate

• allatime

• gutbucket

• (to) have one's hands full

• whiskers (man)

• stringbean

• leadite

• asleep at the switch

• vet

• zeltoids

• wouldn't touch someone or something with a ten-foot pole

• zoned (out)

• rally

• wiped (out)

• actuarial

• yurk

• to hire sb away

• plant

• fast

• scrungy

• dash cold water on something

• alcopop

• flip-flop

• nothing to write home about

• have an ace up one's sleeve

• kaka

• 5-0

• send-up

• ruth

• hall / haul

• kill

• fish-fight

• B.T.O.

• strike down

• preservative

• ask around

• to be in deep water / to be in dire straits / to be in low water

• screw around

• dispirited

• fuel up

• number one

• across

• go over the wall

• for the nonce

• tappet

• rack duty

• squiggle

• hassle

• fizzy

• chuck out

• nabob

• shyster

• obstruction

• fuddy-duddy

• peak / peek

• fancy-schmancy

• v-commerce

• little girls' room

• to be in the hot seat

• They mustn't be allowed to get away with it.

• nigal

• trap

• rib

• techno-weenie

• danceable

• try on

• tool

• Not to worry.

• flophouse

• McD's

• lethal/ fatal

• emancipation

• quadruped

• Johnny Law; John Law

• flivver

• flip someone off; flip someone out

• deplorable

• greenmail

• bacachopam

• Knock it off!

• tube

• blow a fuse

• black money

• bookling

• layout

• cop some Z's

• windbag

• macho

• I hear what you're saying.; I hear you.

• bob up

• nose stud

• wiped (out)

• price/ prize

• AGM (Annual General Meeting)

• golden parachute

• moolah

• joy water

• twenty

• under the gun

• raise hell/ devil/ heck/ hob/ ned

• besieged

• check something out; check out something

• fin; finn

• team / teem

• noun as an adjective

• rare old time

• blitzed

• grime

• toilet mouth

• fight

• demand

• (to) cry over spilt milk

• giveaway prices

• old heave-ho

• untranslatable

• high, wide and handsome

• ride the porcelain bus

• propel into

• in some/large measure

• gilt-edged

• zip

• brew

• put something across

• fussbudget

• asocial

• out of the way

• show out

• That's all she wrote.

• meet

• wasted

• cornball

• signify

• to pass the buck