• grubby

• imposture

• war paint

• pop off

• definitive/ definite

• forbidden fruit

• answer back

• lube

• feather / father

• acquaintance

• eery

• chickenhead

• to cadge for sth

• anecdotage

• back up

• in some/large measure

• mutter

• hack

• rally round

• scamp

• like a bat out of hell

• bump into

• I beg (your) pardon.

• catbird seat

• Zelda

• Wall Street

• important

• mesmerise / mesmerising

• songlifter

• lay something on someone

• You could have knocked me with a feather.

• speed up

• picture

• transient

• completist

• stumper

• pre-empt

• stick

• need for

• in the driver's seat

• hair

• rinse down

• blow town

• jejune

• seat/ sit

• d'no

• klutzy

• cold call

• Where in (the) Sam Hill?

• crucifix / cruciform

• sass

• on the bandwagon

• yahootie

• tampering with the market

• to beat the band

• dependable

• catch some rays

• shin up

• As a rule the money was kept in a secret place.

• gut

• meeken

• witness / best man

• prang

• stand-in

• by / bye

• team / teem

• yock

• hit the rack

• crank something up; crank up something

• knock about / around with

• altivious

• tinseltown

• suit

• to make light work of

• unwind

• chopper

• come up with

• ta-ta

• yellow streak (down someone's back)

• nitwit

• drop

• dinghead

• delicacy

• column

• sucker for women

• nit-picking

• puzzle over

• the bottom line

• restore

• priceless/ worthless

• square peg (in a round hole)

• hang a huey

• Mexican standoff

• pee'd off

• mince

• facilities

• mess around/ about (with someone); monkey around (with someone)

• deplorably

• drunk/ drunken/ drunkard

• tie on the nosebag

• swarm

• dirt

• brass

• Dire straits

• up in the air

• gay

• to be thick

• swap / swab

• nature's call

• roust

• tough customer

• momz duke

• audacious

• Sunday punch

• flack / flak

• trashed

• dankurtis

• shakes

• painkiller

• diminutive

• to come across sth

• ethereal

• schlub

• Dutch act

• aptly

• push

• zdrów jak ryba

• till hell freezes over

• whiz

• to loom large (in one’s mind)

• in a jam

• jabber

• hype something up; hype up something

• What can I do you for?

• competence / competency

• ice

• get around / about

• rap sheet

• fustian

• whatchamacallit

• callous

• anguished

• mieć głowę nie od parady/na karku

• plothole

• doze off

• muckraker

• hack around

• buzz along

• double take

• descent/ decent

• there's no love lost between them

• Mac(k)

• clown around

• dissemination

• aim for the sky

• blow beets;

• pretty

• risk

• gładki jak pupa niemowlęcia

• hot-shot; hotshot

• kick back

• aazing

• poky

• narc; narco

• brainstorming

• goof

• go straight

• shred

• puzzle out

• pine away

• peoplerazzi

• script(t)

• under arms

• shrink-wrapped

• earthiness

• goldmine

• rumble

• creep

• go down in flames

• sweat it out <I>pot</I>.

• fiddly

• fresh

• Fancy meeting you here.

• Yeah cow!

• suspense / suspence

• do the drug thing

• That's the way the cookie crumbles.

• bulk

• have a crack at something

• gobs

• conehead

• neanimorphic

• brewsky

• inexpiable

• jitters

• pill

• content provider

• rinky-dink

• D.I.D.O.; DIDO

• seized