• make a big stink

• foolhardy

• contrarian

• mandate

• Who (in) the hell?

• have the wrong number

• in the pipeline

• fin; finn

• blue plate special

• resilience

• punk

• catch some Z's

• stroke

• mist up

• Woopty-woo

• put the arm on someone

• throw me a bone

• death / dearth

• magnet

• rocks

• sideline

• jive

• zip along

• hooked (on someone or something)

• can

• Want to make something of it?

• keenness

• lackvation

• cool

• lay-off

• woo-pussy

• Give it a rest!

• blabbermouth

• play the dozens; shoot the dozens

• wenchy

• That's a show biz for you.

• altar/ alter

• roast

• fold

• forjudge / forejudge

• jackpot

• roll in

• dressy

• pliant

• drone on

• undertime

• dumping

• Aborigine

• pass out

• to clear a cheque

• songlifter

• schnorrer

• digital display

• uke

• action

• when the eagle flies

• schmendrick

• nah-mean?

• The worst is behind you. Cheer up!

• scrounge someone or something up; scrounge up someone or something

• tab

• taste blood

• Ain't nuttin'

• a gap year

• turn on

• accusation

• painting of/ painting by

• work someone over; work over someone

• cast away

• iron

• to be in the spotlight

• incisive

• attitude

• floodlit

• to fall foul of the law

• Bingo!

• earthborn

• elitism

• gross-out

• than / then

• git / gite

• starve

• nagging

• touch

• gamble away

• sweetie(-pie)

• announce

• zero

• drive away

• buck(s)

• caf

• taped

• whingey

• crocked

• altivious

• sober down

• cabbage

• jerry-builder

• priest-ridden

• whys and wherefores

• cake

• doll up

• doomster

• federal jug

• teeny-weeny bit; teenie-weenie bit; teensy-weensy bit

• return

• ask back

• dumb cluck

• dip into

• knee-jerk

• flow with

• puddinghead

• turn off

• whip something off; whip off something

• bing

• puss

• shoot one's mouth off <I>pot</I>.

• plush(y)

• shack up

• to put the bite on sb (for sth)

• pie-eyed

• comprehensive

• be a drag (on someone)

• half-crocked

• heebie-jeebies; heebie-jeebies

• inertia selling

• boffo

• inapt

• absorbed

• queer-beer

• citation

• meek

• top dog

• plastic card

• make way

• kilobucks

• imprimis

• sourpuss

• honcho

• housebound

• H.T.H.

• insolent

• young blood

• hides

• earthshaking / earthquake

• fuzz; fuzz man; fuzzy (tail)

• benign

• copy down

• ronchie

• hairy-ass(ed)

• obnoxious

• cagily

• blow town

• kick up (2)

• canon / cannon

• crack

• growl

• pension

• yap

• fixed

• stake someone to something

• tag

• cut up

• to badger someone

• quag

• take five

• Bottoms up.

• despicable

• spectre / range

• drop bows

• disapprove / disprove

• foil/ film

• bus girl

• be tired of sb/sth

• damp/ moist

• misconstrue

• partake

• whacked out

• manque

• crumbum

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

• all ears

• boo

• close shave

• take a pop at someone

• volitant

• count against

• strike back

• hork

• bones

• pen

• ability

• jolly-well

• spend

• ace

• Let's do lunch (sometime).

• goob; goober

• tuppence

• advance on

• cutuppery