• get in with

• gridlock

• to go for gold

• facetiae

• fuzz station

• klutz

• rookie; rooky

• totter along

• foible

• art/ the arts

• thunder

• get one's bowel up in an uproar

• abecedarian

• highsider

• pal

• speculate in

• Win a few, lose a few.

• nipply

• addict

• nerts

• credible

• build up

• warts and all

• eco-tech

• luck

• little boy blue

• mailer

• Johnny Law; John Law

• call

• greenwash

• clucky

• frazzle / frizzle

• quango

• bum

• tack on

• emit

• cover up

• diversity

• obsequious

• get it on

• hack

• Get the hell out (of here)!

• stinger

• burn artist

• headstrong

• behind

• track

• bull

• sharp

• fractious

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

• stand-in

• straight

• laconic

• old man

• to make out a cheque to sb

• to send sth under plain cover

• 5-0

• to break the ice / an ice-breaker

• mad dog

• kite

• dressy

• wire

• in a twit

• top story

• rinky-dink

• grub (sth) off (sb)

• bluff out

• straighten up and fly right

• Although this stuff is child's play, I bet he will bungle it.

• What's in it for me?

• cake and pie

• independent

• give sb a belting <I>pot</I>.

• frank / true

• first night

• shoot the cat

• allay / ally

• turn up

• bullshit artist

• scootch

• once in a blue moon

• nie wie lewica co czyni prawica

• whimsical

• bring through

• G-man

• decade

• barefaced

• horror-stricken / horror- struck

• rosy

• i w Paryżu nie zrobią z owsa ryżu

• to trade up

• incite

• bricks-and-mortar

• slumber

• fun

• lay an egg

• straight from the horse's mouth

• jel

• be borne in on sb.

• bubble water; bubbles

• flop house

• come home

• no-goodnik

• twirp

• fish story; fish tale

• take long/ take a long time

• cosmetician

• draught/ drought

• fry

• screech

• discount

• credibly

• decently

• carry about

• on the side

• bonnet

• twenty-twenty hindsight; 20/ 20 hindsight

• saddle

• shakeout

• prank

• dungeon

• want list

• cairn

• kopnąć w kalendarz

• feckless

• to come across sth

• lunatic

• fait accompli

• 420

• Time's a wasting!

• spuścić z tonu

• stop over

• buffaloed

• blade

• dinky

• ramrod

• piss poor*

• zod

• grovel

• hen party

• to be enough to make a cat laugh

• shimmer

• burnie

• letter-perfect (1)

• fight one's way

• under the weather

• drop-dead date

• world money

• nimrod

• vicious circle

• pissed*

• on the safe side

• screamer

• surfeit

• Put up or shut up!

• slush (2)

• (walnąć) prosto z mostu

• bizarre

• to be (stony) broke

• cop shop

• biff

• chow

• quiddity

• sauce parlor

• cash cow

• middlebrow

• nosedive

• bottom

• trash

• historic/ historical

• hot air

• bread and butter / bread-and-butter

• dead-end job

• price/ prize

• shagged out

• nie taki diabeł straszny (jak go malują)

• misconstrue

• de-hottify

• happy juice

• copycat

• fascinoma

• slippery

• ingenious/ genius/ genial/ ingenuous

• shank's mare

• horse around

• payola

• pet peeve

• story stock

• mucho

• twisted

• groggy

• double entendre

• fizzle out

• take it

• decision/ choice

• galoot

• crack

• as ugly as a sin

• dispirited