• true fact

• kitschy

• not know beans (about something)

• step off the curb

• nuthouse

• Could you arrange for a taxi to pick me up from the airport?

• salad/ lettuce

• hang around

• pro

• deadhead

• spellbinding

• camisole

• to mark down

• impede

• outline

• sink

• shrink from

• jigamy

• historic/ historical

• flake

• gory

• jerks

• soporose

• to drop a bundle

• repose

• jerkwater

• iffy

• rats

• backside / backsight

• athletics / athleticism

• willy-nilly

• assimilate with

• atone

• have kittens

• call away

• decent

• inhibit

• turn off

• armful

• stretch one's legs

• lardhead

• penny-ante

• honcho

• junglestiff

• geetus

• mag

• keep up

• root

• mushily

• on the lam

• knock

• Damn!

• bones

• jerry-built

• hornblowing

• moneyed

• wart

• on the rocks

• to tighten the belt/to pull in one's belt

• ungodly

• How's by you?

• work someone over; work over someone

• hype

• wasted

• inflated

• lingerie / lingering

• pinned

• conjure up

• twelfth

• brummagem

• dead in the water

• short end of the stick

• Something important slipped my mind.

• kinky

• jab at

• in a bad shape/ way

• attire

• sulky

• come-hither look

• smooth over

• aim for the sky

• apology

• bunch up

• let off/out steam <I>pot</I>.

• hearth

• demiworld

• buck

• hostess party selling

• all that meat and no potatoes

• patsy

• tenderfoot

• boss man

• trepidation

• weisenheimer

• a think-tank

• schmooze; schmoose

• eat something up; eat up something

• improve/ increase

• discredit

• quack

• dirty deal

• That's all someone needs.

• to sting sb (for sth)

• Uncle Sugar

• be tied up

• precooked

• convoy

• despondently

• swindle sheet

• abruptly

• flapjaw

• umpteen

• bolt-hole

• twister

• G.

• letdown

• oppose sth/ be opposed to sth

• I've been working on this project for my entire life.

• explain away

• crack a book

• not know from nothing

• Come in and take a load off your feet.

• mistake

• Mickey-Mouse

• the life and soul of the party

• calumniator

• grassroots

• decided

• subliminal advertising

• light bulb

• junk food

• insomnia

• obambulate

• example

• break even

• like a million (dollars)

• give someone a buzz

• leave sb out in the cold <I>pot</I>.

• actual

• bacachopam

• nico-teen

• four-flusher

• tough cookies

• dickens

• klupper

• flow out

• bowdlerisation

• wiped (out)

• dopey

• helluva someone or something

• soft touch

• naw

• I get the feeling that you're hiding something from me

• Vamoose!

• guzzle

• pull

• occifer

• jungle

• in jeopardy

• kack

• hooks

• companion

• keep it on the down low

• dash cold water on something

• paste

• feminine / effeminate

• on the beam

• to grill somebody

• cookie pusher

• brief

• lack / luck

• floridly

• rap sheet

• upset price

• to the tune of something

• skinflint

• sky-high

• gams

• a cry-baby

• lea

• litigiousness

• wagon

• kidney-buster

• chopper

• Stuff a sock in it!

• nut-factory

• hit the bull's eye

• yawp

• turn someone or something upside down

• freeze someone out; freeze out someone

• punker

• invidious

• to be on the nut

• porky

• nick

• it isn't a bed of roses

• bustling

• urk

• hit the sack

• make a killing