• sell a wolf ticket

• to bet the ranch

• whale on

• softs

• he's given up the ghost <I>przen</I>.

• szukać dziury w całym

• shaft

• window-shopping

• shooting iron

• facetious

• a mite

• tappet

• bumpkin

• appropriate

• as the crow flies

• Pull yourself together! It's about time you began a new life.

• one's patience is stretched/wearing wafer-thin

• fluff

• ponderous

• chickadee

• lay an egg

• swear like a trooper

• skid-marks

• whack someone (out); whack out someone

• inconspicuously

• hang up

• take (a) delight in sth

• gay

• snatchy

• putter

• catchy

• lepiej późno niż wcale

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

• shoot

• foot-in-mouth disease

• federal jug

• hurl

• malevolently

• shout out

• eat through

• queer as a three-dollar-bill

• prudish

• famine theft

• impassable

• hurry in

• co się odwlecze to nie uciecze

• specify

• my/ your/ his/ her/ our/ their/ its + ing

• dittohead

• engorge on

• cuddle up

• lay a (heavy) trip on someone

• take

• streak

• cloth/ clothes/ clothing/ clothe

• thick-skinned

• slush (2)

• cry out against

• dispatch

• deadhead

• wybierać się jak sójka za morze

• gravy train

• can

• on the rocks

• mug up (on)

• nuthouse

• grubstake

• whole bunch(es)

• out in the left field

• facility

• bonnet

• Win a few, lose a few.

• dabster

• E.R.

• bore

• peppy

• good-time Charlie

• idiot box

• on wheels

• horse feathers

• valet

• taste/ try

• to talk a load of codswallop

• drop a bundle (on someone or something)

• no--nonsense

• see in

• persuade/ convince

• r'outathea!

• salt and pepper

• inferior

• handwriting

• dining / dinning

• k'aint

• repay for

• front money / seed money

• cast-iron

• lip

• Tycoon

• hellacious

• protract

• kennel

• fickle

• depose / deposit

• number crunching

• squish

• a flash in the pan

• stub out

• big stink

• blurry

• inessentials

• weasel

• eyeball to eyeball

• draw in

• vag

• until kingdom come

• bamma

• discredit

• sticks

• skat

• blow someone away; blow away some-one

• to throw a spanner in the works

• gunboats; battleships

• bleak

• gimmicky / gimmickry

• hungries

• damn(ed) sight better

• go off the deep end

• pacy

• a slanging match

• dead duck

• compulsive

• bad larry

• toyetic

• diddle with

• slaughterhouse

• big board

• rely on

• tawdry

• to beat a ban

• sheet

• undercutter

• not know from nothing

• driver / drover

• one jump ahead of someone or some-thing

• run down some lines

• on the lam

• This is where I came in.

• shellacked

• wallow

• chipper

• up and against it

• thou

• smug

• be on the fritz

• first water

• had

• jack someone around; jack around someone

• gravy train

• old lady; old woman

• gander

• forage

• flexitarian

• to put a sock in it

• I'd better think it over.

• groovy

• dabble

• bowdlerisation

• publicly

• fudge

• debonairly

• classic/ classical

• engi-nerd

• bug

• auction fever

• accurately

• tin hat

• shear / sheer

• laine

• to talk shop

• feminine/ female (masculine/ male)

• mesmerise / mesmerising

• screw

• You might have got killed, you fool!

• squirt

• yutnut

• discriminating

• stand-in

• pick-up

• tree hugger

• advert to

• rinse down

• lay it on the line

• if the worst comes to the worst

• lane

• equivocal

• sharpie

• peaceful/ peaceable

• tremulous

• a dog's breakfast

• zachowywać stoicki spokój