• merger-mania

• plump

• hair-piece

• C'n'E goer

• circular file

• stooped

• harpy

• hoagie

• plethora

• blow beets;

• shark repellent

• jolly-well

• shaggy

• resourceful

• whole nine yards

• curia / curio

• shout down

• ask in

• chew face

• punk

• honest injun

• hit

• cap / cup

• on the street

• to be on double-time

• leeway

• turn off

• Yippee!

• out of work

• ossifer

• boys in the backroom

• lackey

• jacked up

• assist

• apply oneself to

• bushed

• caramel

• bump off

• kajunga

• familiar

• turn up one's toes; turn one's toes up

• loom up

• queer-beer

• give someone a buzz

• whistle in the dark

• upstairs

• dankurtis

• tear into someone or something

• flack

• pigeon

• take back

• big fish

• in a bag

• do's and don't's

• comma / point

• śpiewać jak słowik

• pack of lies

• give someone hell*

• outrageous

• score through

• strong-arm

• buzz along

• mingy

• joyride

• straight arrow

• blubbery (1)

• stumper

• champagne socialist

• the ship of the desert

• excessive

• repo

• evidence

• loss leader

• mad flave

• digital native

• lay a (heavy) trip on someone

• half-under

• foment

• stand out

• clock / watch

• dally over

• pighead

• duke

• local

• stymie

• do sth off one's own bat

• pug-ugly

• move on

• miles apart/ miles away

• meals on wheels

• quango

• enliven

• jacked (1)

• biff

• swipe

• jones (2)

• to no effect

• belly up

• curl up

• pass the hat round <I>pot</I>.

• accusation

• to bend over backwards

• snippy

• onerous

• graciously

• fail / failure

• credit cookie

• I was just saying I was going to take up a job in Ireland

• haggle

• blue-chipper

• to sell off

• stuffed shirt

• Wall Street

• You can't have it both ways.

• whirly bird

• raddled

• middle-of-the-roader

• pussycat

• fall out of bed

• bellies

• jump all over someone

• sit right with someone

• exasperatedly

• frigging

• product placement

• buzz along

• What of it?

• pension

• clip on

• earnest

• kiss the porcelain god

• countenance (2)

• munchies

• go in for

• explode / exploit

• cack

• on top of each other

• nameen

• unk-jay

• defensive

• stag-line

• booby trap

• up in arms

• wimp out (of something)

• bare-assed

• Go fly a kite!

• greenback

• have a crack at something

• bench jockey

• stalemate

• grunge

• gruelling

• roadie; roady

• kewag

• take a dig/ job at someone

• facetious

• band against

• read into

• pinch

• insane

• kosher

• kerfuffle

• in the nick of time

• actualize / update

• one-man show

• committed

• till money

• sproutsy

• airheaded

• eke out

• burn

• roached

• packet/ pack/ package

• headache house

• asleep at the switch

• gross-out

• horse around

• confide / confine

• meddler

• little black book

• cold call

• one's Sunday best

• sit in

• balloon

• stagey

• put on the dog; put on the ritz

• last roundup

• corsage

• dumbo

• carry / wear

• big blue

• head buyer

• lame duck

• to go better

• hold on

• ripe

• calm and collected

• carrot top

• kazaam

• outstanding