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

• Who the deuce?

• to make a martyr of oneself

• chew something over; chew over something

• excruciatingly

• sloppy

• stick

• to keep a shop

• break bread

• What's doing?

• Mister Big

• giveaway

• yak

• disruption

• brown-bag

• labour over

• hot air

• unwind

• lug

• income

• schlock

• kicker

• saddle with

• quake up

• plunge

• favour

• filibuster

• celery/ celerity

• Bible-basher

• jugger

• weeds

• on a roll

• pain in the rear/ neck

• observer / observant

• look out

• off-the-clock

• brand loyalty

• shyster

• come down

• have rocks in one's head

• comfy

• strike back

• agit-pop

• sewed up

• gloomy Gas

• sharp

• sinking feeling

• take it easy

• hurry in

• to be pushed/pressed for time

• well-knit

• go downhill

• stick on

• Give me a break!

• ball

• bag it

• paying-in slip

• oft

• call off

• shop steward

• giveaway prices

• hit the roof

• familiarize

• in the groove

• come across (1)

• obit

• wired (up)

• acidulous

• take someone off; take off someone

• hokum

• pawn

• scoop

• roach

• jock

• get one's shit together

• hellacious

• make for

• hizzee

• meagre

• in the twinkling of an eye

• dry

• condense

• put up with

• sheepskin

• to clear one's costs / expenses

• merciless

• Hill

• get with someone

• gut

• cheap shot

• dummy

• What's it like to be responsible for the national security?

• at the cross-roads

• heavyweight

• to blow the cobwebs away

• revelatory / sensational

• straight

• cabbage

• operate on

• make a federal case out of something

• stuffed shirt

• faint

• lay an egg

• gold bug

• jeff

• hit man

• the axis of evil

• bovver

• common ground

• undeniably

• power lunch

• I'd like to be able to spend a few months in Alaska.

• phat

• pigmobile

• zealously

• ticket

• You've got another think coming.

• jurist / juror

• compunication

• chuckle

• copper

• go on doing/ go on to do

• in business

• absent (oneself) from

• peanuts

• congeal

• circumspective

• vacation

• access/ assess

• crash pad

• bucko

• zaniness

• harsh

• talon / coupon

• play at

• outa

• order processing

• tear

• caravan

• At least for once you should think of me and not only of yourself.

• rate/ instal(l)ment

• tool

• up tick / uptick

• to spill the beans

• opt for

• def

• ragtop

• swell

• ba

• go South

• relent

• vibes

• I'm doin' cartwheels!

• purveyor

• old hat

• between sth. and sth.

• clam up

• static

• package

• wallop

• pupa

• see you later, alligator

• lame duck

• tomb/ grave

• to hang up one's boots

• hard-wearing (shoes)

• gazoony

• iffy

• lubrication

• knock around

• nosiness / noisiness

• work on

• pipsqueak

• wait in

• equivocal

• concurrent/ competitor

• idiot light

• nerd mobile

• number cruncher

• crank

• trashout

• to plug sth

• enjoy

• talk until one is blue in the face

• come to aid

• to cash up

• billie

• goon

• Chinese water-torture tactic

• yak

• wimp out

• to buy in

• wypadki chodzą po ludziach

• difficile

• goomer

• ninny

• shot

• r'outathea!

• assist at

• two bit