• to be in the hot seat

• lift

• streaker

• shade/ shadow

• rot

• act as

• take someone off/ out; take off/ out someone

• hit

• embittered

• whip something into shape

• okay

• Mrs. Murphy

• clanked

• hold by

• cash cow

• ask for/ ask about

• scatterbrain

• roached

• slump

• jock

• drowsy

• mad

• comprehensive

• glossary

• bull

• parallel

• cheapie

• lay*

• L.I.Q.

• cradle

• estimated

• jerry

• slogo

• rotten luck

• derring-do

• shank's mare

• hassle

• rob someone blind

• there's no mistaking

• don't put all your eggs in one basket

• kradzione nie tuczy

• fast

• chug

• lepiej zapobiagać niż leczyć

• zap

• flock

• steal up on

• to pay in kind

• cop-out

• toaster

• ordure

• creased

• the top storey

• cut some Z's

• sister

• plant

• have the wrong number

• make away

• swear on a stack of Bibles

• cheapie

• deplore

• to break sb in

• nark, narc

• never put a foot wrong

• arbs

• quick-and-dirty

• come down with

• undies

• seen better days

• to go like hot cakes

• clunker

• pal

• haggle over

• schlep

• the American dream

• crap out

• pick-up

• purple prose

• piece (of the action)

• dumb-head

• frigging

• How you been?

• crackpot

• fox

• triple witching hour

• goof off

• rock

• piss-ant*

• go over the wall

• moon over

• a load of bunk

• Estrange / strange

• abject / object

• scoff

• chow down

• a laughing-stock

• have sth off pat

• breakdown / break down

• fool around

• earth up

• ladylike

• That's the way the ball bounces.

• can

• crapshot

• butcher

• laconic

• yield

• flunk

• up and against it

• get at

• bull market

• remote/ abandon(ed)

• foam

• acidulous

• coeval

• to take off for cash

• citizenship

• fool away

• out of wack

• bread and butter

• upstairs

• bowling-alone

• insipid

• No lie!

• stupe(head)

• flip (out)

• keyed (up)

• You completely miss the point, I'm afraid.

• backlash

• railroad tracks

• nuke

• sizzle

• hack it

• bean-counter

• shiv

• eat one's heart out

• incisive

• dexterity

• blow one's top

• klotz

• cool

• cap / cup

• chopping board / chopping block

• to get the show on the road

• blabbermouth

• have a ball

• quidnunc

• let off/out steam <I>pot</I>.

• brew

• come-hither look

• overcook

• works

• not on your life

• dropout

• roundup

• clatter

• rad

• pink slip / to get the pink slip / to give sb the pink slip

• to be in someone's black books

• collar

• fixer

• rewild / re-wild

• underestimate

• skate

• immense/immerse

• talk big

• if you'll pardon the expression

• cake

• filter/ infiltrate

• bore

• die

• genuine

• walk away with something; walk off with something

• a laughing-stock

• party-hearty

• strengthen

• mop

• same o' same o' ; same ol' same ol'

• stick with

• weirdo

• dead-end job

• play the fool

• Joe Schmo

• come to aid

• peel

• arduous

• ball and chain

• uncover

• drink up

• swallow

• saucy

• whammy

• visits by appointment

• shoot for the sky

• esteem/ estimate

• jaw

• run a make on someone

• put the moves on someone

• kląć jak szewc

• to be long in the tooth