• Why (in) the hell?

• hyperdating

• halcyon

• strange/ estrange

• schlep

• watercolour

• Plenty is no plague, at least so they say.

• push

• zorch

• party hearty

• out of whack

• cheer up

• favourable

• finish with

• fracas

• zerk

• ice over

• As usual the problem comes down to money.

• great divide

• a wolf-whistle

• nic / nic-head

• As the saying goes, you're never too old to learn.

• embalm

• grubbers

• meat tooth

• luck of the draw

• guzzlery

• think over

• dry

• fruit loop

• Trust me!

• half-sprung

• to get one's teeth into

• inflated

• blow one's top

• photograph/ photography/ photographer

• denial

• gullible

• phendinkus

• break it up

• where it's at

• gosse egg

• not cricket

• picky

• guff

• jacked (1)

• hit the road

• steer clear

• bimbo

• pound something out; pound out something

• consentience

• short

• headache

• sweet talk

• right in the kisser

• rip someone off; rip off someone

• make a stink (about someone or something)

• agitation / aggravation / distortion

• powder monkey

• receptive

• whack

• nature's call

• exhibit/ expose

• familiarize

• shuttle diplomacy

• cherry-picker

• on the rocks

• harsh toke

• top up

• bean-counter

• paper over something; paper some- thing over

• vehicle

• accommodation

• tenacity

• hot head

• magniloquent

• to whistle for it

• chitchat

• Uncle (Sam)

• geek; geke

• hotty

• screw-up

• slander/ slender

• peter out

• come out on top

• pretty penny

• plc

• nose around

• a throwback

• foment

• one-sided

• Let's go to the seaside for a change.

• bully

• knockdown goods

• luxurious / luxuriant

• forjudge / forejudge

• adorababe

• techno-weenie

• dressed to kill

• make bricks without straw

• to keep tabs on sbsth

• stuck on someone

• Pac-Man defense / pacman defense

• goody two-shoes

• day the eagle flies

• half board

• ronchie

• distinct/ distinctive

• to be put under the microscope

• user-friendly

• flip (out)

• I'm not too keen on the idea.

• kiss something off; kiss off something

• hellhole

• a different kettle of fish

• proliferate

• You want to step outside?

• rod

• pungent

• huckster

• fricassee

• Peter Jay

• count on

• nail someone to a cross

• to dry up

• to level off

• lively

• yuck; yuk

• old-timer

• storm in

• Do I have the pleasure of speaking to Mr. Johnson?

• case of the shorts

• john

• ak

• falter out

• cruise

• sack

• stand over

• cooking/ cookery

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

• convenient

• blabbermouth

• shot

• common ground

• Tell it like it is.

• assist at

• counter-offer

• Zelda

• lunch out

• raise Cain

• blow town

• limpet

• drowsiness

• dead to the world

• pooh-pooh; poo-poo

• financially embarrassed

• elusive

• dewy-eyed

• bag some rays

• ostry jak brzytwa

• reunion

• Jobs are hard to come by these days.

• weasel

• low-blow

• sluggish

• nomadic

• trickledown

• to fill/fulfil an order

• pet peeve

• one too many

• schlock shop / schlock joint

• melvin

• diminutive

• Keep on trucking.

• larvae

• no bargain

• grisly / grizzly

• grub

• growler

• eye candy

• take the spear (in one's chest)

• moneybags

• to be on double-time

• shush (up)

• gridlock

• crock of shit

• have it all together

• Beg (your) pardon.

• coarse / course

• white-collar worker

• a champagne socialist

• That'll teach someone.

• aspire / inspire

• forethought

• cable ten

• zigguraggerate

• upchuck

• head and shoulders (above something)

• ride shotgun

• pig