• hick town

• on the wire

• juncture/ junction

• manifestation/ demonstration

• sipid

• cheer up

• ball and chain

• trap

• it’s no use/ it’s no good/ there is no point

• swank(y) / swish / ritzy / nifty / toney / tony / posh / snaz-zy /snazzy

• breeze

• chaser

• old lady; old woman

• gut

• sapheaded

• shout for

• right as rain

• case of the shorts

• disconsolate

• barefaced

• gink

• ace in the hole / ace up one's sleeve

• tomcat

• at first sight

• working stiff

• urgently

• donnybrook

• fly-by-night

• peevish

• curmudgeonly

• ticker

• hobo

• Bean Town

• a mite

• grape(s)

• shake someone down; shake down someone

• suffer

• hunt-and-peck

• grounded

• Give (me) some skin!

• clunker

• rabbit on

• lockdown

• reciprocate

• head-locked

• long-wearing

• hot item

• to throw somebody in at the deep end

• swamped

• stroke

• rub over

• hangar/ hanger

• quackery

• clunker

• queer

• two-time

• crudités / crudity

• to shop around

• red tape

• hole up

• garbology

• bear

• glug

• jewellery

• guru

• lie down

• the game is up

• erase

• fare

• gold

• as merry/chirpy/lively as a cricket

• wrinkle

• fresh

• short end of the stick

• expressionist / expressionistic

• schoolmarmish

• once and for all

• turn

• outbrave

• peppy

• plc

• nippers

• soak through

• give someone the shaft

• loiter in

• schmendrik

• go belly up

• fuzzy math

• totalled

• aficionado

• as the crow flies

• loony; loonie

• jaw

• credit / credits

• candy man

• a thin dime / a (one) red cent

• beware of the dog!

• You must learn to accept the world as it is.

• gunner

• deuce

• all-round

• to eke out a living

• fortuna kołem się toczy

• rain on someone or something

• mordant

• put the kibosh on something

• ask in

• eat one's heart out

• letter-perfect (1)

• crackle

• mock

• sorry about/ sorry for

• wallop

• ostensibly

• palić jak komin

• sister

• kopnąć w kalendarz

• fescennine

• highway robbery

• increase

• completist

• goodie

• devotion

• What you see is what you get.

• consultant / consultancy

• bunch up

• crammed

• kiss and tell

• tailor made

• the USA

• kick out

• stack

• shocks

• barrel ass*

• to get the hang of sth

• perfunctory

• cool out

• just what the doctor ordered

• tinklebox

• duck soup

• clunker

• It's strictly from hunger.

• brain on a stick

• roust

• Tell me another (one)!

• anytime i in.

• blue Johnnies

• nadmit

• yuke

• hall / haul

• loaded

• contumelious

• horse trading

• wasted

• hoodwink

• bet one's bottom dollar

• fossil

• bottom line

• Lump it!

• intrigued

• benjie

• reassuringly

• hangover

• bite the dust

• century note

• get off (on something)

• padded

• buffet

• dead soldier

• parch

• delay

• a dab hand

• throw one's weight around

• grumpy

• charm with

• reign/ govern

• schedule/ timetable

• rough someone up; rough up some-one

• standoffish

• call away

• Oh, boy!

• nay

• gutter

• monastery

• out of wack

• wash out

• go haywire

• clip

• the world at large

• latrine lips

• up stakes and leave

• pump

• clam up

• fickle

• able to cut something

• chirp

• malice

• in a cold sweat

• choke down

• fat cat