• Close, but no cigar.

• jostle away

• That's show business (for you).

• kick back

• plight

• 556677

• addicting / addictive

• divisiveness

• poox

• head-locked

• board over

• powder room

• cotton-picker

• phat

• double-dutch

• wooden ticket

• flutter down

• gun

• y'heard me

• judiciously

• signify

• balla

• snatchy

• coffin nail

• reader

• kiss-off

• to burn the midnight oil

• armchair research

• as for

• to-do

• wear

• vaunted

• pinstriper

• subacid

• deportment

• action

• kick it

• flip someone the bird

• perfunctory

• peanuts

• bone factory

• let's show a little respect for this one

• shiver/ quiver/ tremble

• ace

• reek

• satisfied

• to keep up with the competitors

• pinched (for time)

• A-OK

• pink slip

• ensorcell

• play hooky

• If I remember correctly, you can get it at Marshall's.

• enquire (inquire) after

• niech mnie/cię kule biją!

• to knock off

• oppress

• switch on

• corsage

• benjie

• dirty work

• recipient

• wing

• hoard / horde

• haggle over

• tacit

• You've got another think coming.

• an Indian summer

• to sell one's saddles

• dope something out; dope out some-thing

• kegger(s)

• track up

• to win one's spurs

• truckonaut

• rev something up; rev up something

• stay behind

• Kentucky fried

• to be shell-shocked

• pink-house syndrome

• It's raining cats and dogs.

• wing-ding

• golden hello

• apparatchik

• bring- down

• bottle up

• finger

• lunatic

• eyewash

• to bend over backwards

• yanked

• flounder about / around

• grime

• lifer

• pale at

• riffed; rift

• eighteen wheeler

• You should have seen it for yourself!

• twister

• gimpy

• lamps

• scare away

• bilious

• rattlebones

• skittish

• goof

• long-tongued

• bairn

• make tracks

• Pardon my French.

• dismiss a case <I>prawn</I>.

• sit still for something

• juice

• all in

• click for

• hunky-dory

• kiss the dust

• hop

• continue

• red-letter day

• drzeć się jak (stare) prześcieradło

• boot / booty

• to be in a rut

• size

• make it like someone or something

• inferior

• bear/carry

• hot number

• stick

• believe

• yucky

• folks

• pertly

• minds-on

• be down with

• shades

• incongruous

• tall

• rush

• key figure

• Acapulco spread

• Hill

• die

• head over heels

• nothing upstairs

• turn turtle

• sometime / sometimes

• lucrative / well-paid

• crouton

• greyhound

• ace someone out, ace out someone

• swot up

• come up for air

• kto mieczem wojuje ten od miecza ginie

• You can't have it both ways.

• witness / best man

• yurk

• habituate to

• movers and shakers

• john

• ball and chain

• go fooey

• flip (out)

• schizophrene / schizophrenia

• flop

• scare someone or something up; scare up someone or something

• lip

• a number of

• gravamen

• to stick sb

• rankle with

• blusterous

• laine

• visitability

• in the pink

• Zip (up) your lip!

• well-heeled / well-fixed

• go haywire

• happen along

• arrive in/ arrive at

• futile

• ag

• I was just saying I was going to take up a job in Ireland

• flag

• shoot

• advertisement canvasser

• barney

• tape-watcher

• deft

• bear market / bear run

• to pay out

• yak it up

• herd / heard

• not worth a fig

• clodhopper

• taker

• drop in

• for kicks

• intricate

• live in an ivory tower

• vaccination