• crapshoot

• rip

• bowling-alone

• strike it rich <I>pot</I>.

• That's a show biz for you.

• make

• magnificent

• wallow

• one of the faithful

• noctilucent

• timid

• highsider

• wallop

• duck butt

• crank something up; crank up something

• like gangbusters

• crudity

• will do

• almighty dollar

• young blood

• cop

• glossary

• invacuation

• to buy (sth) on the arm / on the cuff / on the HP (hire purchase) / on the never-never…

• (when you) come to think of it

• Be that as it may.

• get one's act together

• sight/ view

• duffer

• attempt

• tall

• Vatican roulette

• big bucks

• quencher

• face-off

• dejected

• elaborate

• duff

• cloggy

• chase up

• tweenie

• to hire sb away

• backlash

• berpwater

• toaster

• hork

• eyeball to eyeball

• geedis

• clip

• liqueur / liquor

• unwind

• near-beer

• zip along

• loose cannon

• soporose

• jungle juice

• related

• con

• resounding

• veg (out)

• dish the dirt

• picky

• accede / exceed

• fishwife

• walk heavy

• a different kettle of fish

• stretch

• placemaking

• hard time

• jack someone up; jack up someone

• Dire straits

• corky

• nose around

• bring out

• jedna jaskółka nie czyni wiosny

• neat

• to beat about the bush

• essential

• piddlefart

• yuk

• downtime

• nickel-and-dime

• middling

• heist

• suck

• get one's stuff together

• dust cover

• remember

• turnout

• glamorous

• fraidy cat

• tough egg to crack

• to pick holes

• wyjść na czymś jak Zabłocki na mydle

• stomp (on) someone

• dabble at

• shade/ shadow

• evidence

• green

• gander

• to soak

• jughead

• stink

• swell

• to have eyes bigger than one's stomach

• make a pig out of oneself

• Joe College

• outfit

• Virtually every film he made was nominated for an Oscar.

• skittish

• wobble

• aspire

• example / copy

• rocky mountain canary

• boardroom

• make away with

• bright

• pamięć jak sito

• dope pusher

• top heavy

• every/ each

• to gain the upper hand

• keyed (up)

• correspondent/ co-respondent

• I don't see any need to bring up this topic.

• veggy

• moldy fig

• feather brain

• flake away / flake off

• advise about

• alligator spread

• (to have) a green fingers ( am. - thumb)

• pell-mell

• dead soldier

• put some distance between someone and someone or something

• Good grief!

• despicable

• antifreeze

• jittery

• ass-master

• bundle of nerves

• pop one's cork

• gun for someone

• Act your age!

• nick

• pussyfoot (around)

• chair

• mickey mouse ears

• paper-pusher

• shutters

• as is

• knee-high to a grasshopper

• rag

• bargain-hunter

• lay*

• haffin

• macho madness

• malkin

• flatten

• purr

• jock (2)

• muddleheadedness

• czekającemu czas się dłuży

• trap

• flush away

• hooted

• kava / coffee

• jape

• way down

• wet sock/ rag

• centre (a)round

• handle

• freckle

• Take a running jump (in the lake)!

• leg-pull

• wkładać w coś całe serce

• close/not far behind

• like nobody's business

• relevant

• junk squad

• have a yellow streak down one's back

• groovy

• to come across with (the money)

• kick on

• tear into someone or something

• wunderkind

• fear

• flagitious

• folderol

• hang in

• well-rested

• I.D.; ID

• to make out a cheque to sb

• daddylac

• pinched (for time)

• fresh

• to go for gold

• blunder into

• sissy

• fray