• shield

• bird-dog

• whiskers (man)

• jack something up; jack up something

• buffet

• smashing

• peach

• undeniable

• great-grandfather

• complain

• reticence

• have one's hands full

• clerisy

• indelible

• skag

• duck into

• What's shakin' (bacon)?

• lowbrow

• swim in something

• last roundup

• Siberian express

• in a twit

• em; emm

• the world at large

• to keep something low-key

• long-wearing

• give sth a second thought

• rundown

• A-OK

• take something public

• get someone going

• dumping

• envisage

• zinger

• dump

• ages

• go downhill

• enquire (inquire) after

• cadge from

• You can say that again!

• hacker

• labonza

• dust / dusk

• conversable

• exaggerated

• front

• utter

• sack up

• initiation

• know where one is coming from

• (to) butt in

• brewski

• Trust me!

• director

• rif

• high-risk

• unlax

• assent / ascent

• aggregate

• riot

• private eye

• throw the bull/ crap

• yock

• grunch

• agonism

• feminine / effeminate

• lickety-split

• scorn

• phone in

• blast

• go haywire

• flack

• furtive

• shaggy

• cans

• scag

• mighty

• to fall back on / upon sth

• nostophobia

• You can't win them/ 'em all.

• umpteen

• go

• dizzy

• fop-rock

• to move

• jig is up

• drop

• example / copy

• knock down something; knock something down

• flimflam

• sharp-witted

• in the pink

• hack

• mundane

• to fall foul of the law

• grunt work

• muckamuck

• opt for

• put away

• talk out of

• What do you say?

• hit the panic button

• exhausted

• wreck

• deckchair

• forked tongue

• wired (up)

• two-timing

• getaway

• top dog

• partisan

• shoot one's cookies/ breakfast/ supper

• toolies

• blackjack

• I-beam

• whole nine yards

• uninstalled

• pitfall

• adapt for

• answer back

• chain store

• clean one's clock

• walk off

• hush money

• commute

• 86

• despondent

• laction

• only way to go

• post-haste

• noid

• rag out

• dole / lot

• nail

• commence

• vac

• vanilla

• dopeman

• importune

• ache/pain

• drug; drug out

• dog meat

• Bag it!

• huffy

• face-saving

• nail-'em-and-jail-'em; nailer

• That's what she wrote.

• rank someone (out); rank out someone

• buy the farm

• caf

• wooden ticket

• gruby jak wieprz

• groan under

• straw boss

• touch base (with someone)

• half-crocked

• pre-empt

• ease

• frizzle

• hood

• powder monkey

• wypadki chodzą po ludziach

• brown goods

• bonehead

• toyboy

• flatfoot

• hook, line and sinker

• grunge

• ubiquitous

• iron

• to put one's feet up

• stingy / stinging

• deadhead

• pampered

• chopped liver

• leave someone cold

• hold off

• flurry

• flagging

• to be as fit as a fiddle

• order around

• mickey mouse

• wise guy

• headstrong

• quant

• steam someone's beam

• pray to the porcelain god

• cut with

• shellacking

• sweat something out; sweat out some-thing

• gungy

• big enchilada

• squirrel

• grub

• cupcake

• cost-effective

• cry out

• to be enough to make a cat laugh

• fussy

• ankle