• flack

• elbow grease

• Say you!

• make

• in a familiar way

• scope / scop

• jovial

• to stick to one’s guns

• band against

• grabbers

• progress: make or do

• in a class of one's own

• five it

• luck out

• noise

• jabber

• back seat driver

• comprehensible/ comprehensive

• to get back on track

• recover from

• package

• enquire (inquire) after

• where someone is at

• see red

• dodger

• bump off

• rally's

• hired gun

• harrowing

• betty

• diddle around

• the Old Lady of Theadneedle Street

• palanka

• specify

• old man

• antifreeze

• hit the trail

• Aborigine

• wicked

• joy ride

• pace around

• drowsiness

• astronomical

• to zero out

• coxcomb

• invacuation

• wing it

• urgently

• You hear?

• whip something into shape

• poor-mouth

• chicken

• yarn

• call away

• grow into

• freak (out)

• knockers

• How you been?

• flatten out

• raggle-taggle

• contemporary

• lunch in

• piss-ant*

• paper profit

• mucky

• telly

• sleeping partner

• skeeter

• where the action is

• dime

• donator/ donor

• tube steak

• like a ton of bricks

• petrol / petrel

• ho-hum

• commander / commandeer

• to do a snow job on sb

• bet someone's dollars to doughnuts

• anecdotage

• juggler

• to put one’s foot in it

• make away

• techno-weenie

• case the joint

• half-baked

• search

• big man

• to milk sbsth

• kite

• schmuck*

• concede

• lucky dog

• intrepidity

• allowance

• have an ace up one's sleeve

• merciless

• simp

• kibosh

• clutch

• weeper

• jingle

• persistently

• flash

• gross someone out; gross out some-one

• wear

• intimate / close

• overripe

• geetis

• forjudge / forejudge

• works

• bag of bones

• 10-4

• Good golly, Miss Molly!

• get one's stuff together

• blubber

• rain pitchforks

• flatty

• notch

• lose one's mind

• almighty dollar

• two-umlauts

• You can search me.

• queered

• apostrophe

• showcase

• dinghead

• coffin nail

• grassroots

• beeper

• beat sb to a pulp

• mug up (on)

• learning computers

• action

• poignant

• when push comes to shove

• bad egg

• to pony up

• No lie!

• to have the gall to ...

• turned off

• kick in the ass*/ butt*

• two-by-four

• groan under

• metrosexual

• easy to do

• ronchie

• gink

• opportunivore

• alive/ living/ lively

• to burn one's fingers

• be pressed for time

• romcom

• throw me a bone

• ball

• schnook; schnuck

• grumpily

• berk

• plonko

• Shucks!

• imaginary/ imaginative/ imagery

• turn

• swift

• wipe the floor with somebody

• rangy

• cool down

• bushed

• card

• As the saying goes, you're never too old to learn.

• mien

• ass

• blivet

• lie doggo <I>pot</I>.

• AGM (Annual General Meeting)

• tacky

• accord/ chord/ piece-work

• blue

• tensed up

• to be/walk on a knife-edge

• puke

• twister

• knockers

• clockwise

• shark

• jolt

• attaboy!

• mimbo

• scoot

• persuader

• This is it!

• falling-out

• impression

• emotive

• poise

• chain(saw)

• pass out

• break even

• shark

• hang around

• push into

• modishness