• work someone over; work over someone

• liquid laugh

• penny-pincher

• assent / ascent

• to have a way with sb

• dismiss a case <I>prawn</I>.

• gridlock

• inhibited

• sharp

• Christmas Eve

• have it all together

• all-nighter

• beside/ besides

• commie

• queer

• in the pipeline

• laggard

• inhabitant

• have a ball

• fucked up*

• stop

• to be on the breadline

• hype artist

• effrontery

• in the chips

• bottom line

• melt

• offset

• pantload

• preemption

• shrimp

• downbeat

• go at

• little black book

• corpse

• easy mark

• human/ humane

• whoops and jingles

• encyclopaedia / encyclopaedic

• pluck; plug

• adalada

• attaboy!

• Vatican roulette

• wallflower

• fix

• twenty

• Q-sign

• have kittens

• domainer

• thumbs up

• kaka

• allow for

• profiteer

• pain

• lowbrow

• scribbler

• donnybrook

• e-hole

• shnook

• roadie; roady

• hardboiled

• Marble City

• hazardous

• politic/ political/ politician/ politics

• junk tank

• the works manager

• knothead

• duly / dully

• to run up

• bustle about / around

• hash over

• look alike

• John Doe

• pin on

• rolf

• clock watcher

• unearthly

• rock

• break down

• head

• muzz

• minds-on

• That's the way the ball bounces.

• chump

• trash

• snigger

• dredge up

• run down some lines

• kluck

• no--nonsense

• go

• gut-wrenching

• aspire

• buttoned-up

• holy Joe

• bad rap

• conspectus

• gosse egg

• chicken choker

• veer

• garbage

• meal/ course

• pull something off; pull off something

• with a vengeance

• tremulous

• to make a splash

• knuckle-dragger

• ak

• to come across sth

• letter-perfect (1)

• fish out

• yenta

• cap / cup

• slave / slaver

• hell of a mess

• perpendicular

• appalling

• whangdoodle; whangydoodle

• mickey; micky

• cry in one's beer

• bindlestiff

• obnoxious

• beat

• content provider

• grub up

• gripe

• pick up on something

• bag

• shouldn't happen to a dog

• depiction / description

• lingerie / lingering

• deserted

• play the fool

• till the fat lady sings

• leisure

• purposely/ purposefully

• skeleton staff/ crew, etc.

• on the beam

• turn up one's toes; turn one's toes up

• take off

• face-off

• puffery

• to hush sth up

• killemquick

• deer in headlights

• helluva someone or something

• get something going (with someone)

• off the track

• dreamboat

• mess around/ about (with someone)

• give someone the ax

• straight

• loaded

• a head-hunter

• back-to-back

• freshen up

• glum / glume

• butterfingered

• switch off

• offie

• sustain

• banging the market

• shoot-out

• back away from

• delitescent

• cut loose

• covet

• to be on a treadmill

• to deal sb in

• stop over

• to have one's bread buttered on both sides

• chief

• rivetes

• hit the road

• continue

• przyszła koza do woza

• coven

• bully

• everything / every thing

• buck

• off-beam

• lines

• hotty

• plumbing

• face-saving

• lose (all) one's marbles

• old-timer

• hall / haul

• catch on to

• whiz-kid

• getaway

• abortion

• pot

• Slip me five!

• deceive

• conk out

• dinky

• bite the dust

• pawky

• outline