• by/in fits and starts

• hang around

• decide on

• inject into

• addictive

• something's got to give

• dweeb

• fescennine

• dusty butt

• Hot ziggety!

• command

• what's his face/ name

• That tears it!

• burn off

• finger / toe

• Motown

• big time

• do someone dirt

• take off

• pipe dream

• The news came as a great surprise to everyone.

• woo

• airy-fairy

• scarf

• copicide

• nothing to sneeze at

• hoofer

• stone (cold) sober

• continue

• barefaced

• grubby

• do sth off one's own bat

• fit in with

• vaccination

• hang about

• layoff / layout

• knockdown goods

• raw

• armchair research

• crash

• big man

• induce

• riff

• squat

• double cross

• janked up

• backstreet

• quicksand

• people

• except/ exception/ accept

• bonkbuster

• for all I know

• macho

• You're dern/ durn tootin'!

• tfu, na psa urok!

• shot

• old hand (at something)

• shot in the dark

• get the sack <I>pot</I>.

• ambiguity

• streeter

• number

• knee-slapper

• caramello

• to pay through the nose

• gosse egg

• bolt-hole

• unit

• chuck at

• tag on

• nondescript

• to do time

• put in a plug (for someone or something)

• key grip

• rag

• look round

• young blood

• a big stick

• damn

• hard-earned

• danceable

• squawk

• munificent

• bedridden

• illicit

• have kittens

• interviewee

• jigger

• dork

• red

• pitchman

• painkiller

• profuse

• chciwy dwa razy traci

• damp/ moist

• pits

• wired into someone or something

• perpetrator

• juice

• workaholic

• bullshit

• poor-mouth

• glamorous

• tall

• monkey around (with someone)

• Who (in) the devil?

• deny

• bird-dog

• resigned

• peoples

• off color

• surfeit

• take the spear (in one's chest)

• cite / site

• take the heat off someone

• shutters

• as for

• walkshed

• What's doing?

• lap of luxury

• ethicals

• dabster

• turn up one's nose at someone or something; turn one's nose up at someone or something

• Excuse my French.

• ridicule

• odds-on

• crunchers

• bang about/around

• insolent

• squeeze/ squash

• nie dla psa kiełbasa

• without a hitch

• have guts

• discus / discuss

• fix up

• knock for a loop

• backroom boys

• have butterflies (in one's stomach) <I>pot</I>.

• effect/ influence

• to be on the same wavelength

• That's what she wrote.

• chirpy

• stickler

• goon

• to be nuts about someone

• gobble

• once and for all

• jungle juice

• en route

• scratch sheet

• cast aside

• whipped

• holy mackerel!

• zunkie

• biedny jak mysz kościelna

• head

• gag

• gyppy tummy

• show around/ round

• poindexter

• baltic

• hostility / hostilities

• dike

• out of line

• rasta

• tight money

• cheap shot

• do a snow job on someone

• bargain price

• tea party

• breeze along

• come hell or high water

• relevant/ appropriate

• I get the feeling that you're hiding something from me

• get a bang out of someone or something

• shake

• look down on

• hit man

• one of the faithful

• Cut it out! You'll kill us driving so fast.

• off artist

• dyed-in-the-wool

• eat away

• perking

• dressy

• shoddiness

• stand-in

• stomp (on) someone

• Bag it!

• cash machine

• hand-to-hand fighting

• mail shot / mailing shot

• cagey

• look after number one

• class monitor

• invidious

• pipe

• monk

• mickey mouse ears

• Says who?