• overarching

• go over the wall

• buck for something

• take it on the chin/ nose

• between a rock and a hard place

• headache

• gooner

• breath/ breathe

• take on (so)

• to be laid up (with a disease)

• counselling

• eats

• swipe

• pedantic

• in the twinkling of an eye

• face fungus

• rasorial

• super-strap

• alternative/ alternate

• psych someone out; psych out some-one

• pet / fag / cigarette

• deceiver

• furnish to

• aight

• feel about

• murky bucket(s)

• spring a leak

• opportunity/ chance

• nibble

• Go to the devil!

• acerbity

• sticky wicket

• commonplace

• too rich for someone's blood

• ankle (2)

• phutz

• stud-muffin

• go-ahead

• shuck

• junk bond

• jump down

• to kick the bucket

• a / an

• głuchy jak pień

• holy Joe

• hit the hay/ sack

• freckled

• hold forth

• ubercute

• have it all together

• lash into

• ass-licker

• switch

• number one

• mouth-breather

• attenuation

• unclued

• fad-get

• Johnny-be-good

• lackey

• most

• screenplay

• tethered

• timesuck

• approve/ approve of

• barf- out

• weeper

• scag

• velitation

• blank

• homesick

• to sign on for the dole

• stinkpot

• give sth a second thought

• fancy goods

• floodlit

• lie/ lay

• plump

• upper crust

• whip-round

• command / commend

• faint-hearted

• prophet / prorogue

• riveted

• sink

• bungler

• veg

• double cross

• WYSIWYG

• tightwad

• incestuous share dealing

• long tall Sally

• cagey

• gaga

• patronizing

• engorge on

• No fair!

• movers and shakers

• e-back

• staff / stuff

• career coach

• advance on

• milk of human kindness

• golf

• hold one's liquor

• all wet

• whomp

• storm in

• ram something down someone's throat

• Could you put in a good word for me?

• toss something off; toss off something

• touch

• atrabilious

• M.C.P.

• bum check

• helluva someone or something

• ripe

• to be down on one's luck

• bug

• top up

• elder

• lean

• witty

• altivious

• pathetic

• take one's lumps

• poise

• two shakes of a lamb's tail

• eat something up; eat up something

• scag

• stack the deck

• thank you / thank-you

• go downhill

• consume / consumerise

• increase

• muckraker

• gork

• I've searched everywhere but to no avail.

• wrapped up (in someone or something)

• dilli

• blow a fuse

• peppy

• bean-counter

• all-nighter

• familiar / familial

• purple prose

• tube steak

• fussbudget

• old heave-ho

• goof-proof

• dump all over someone or something

• ice

• Jane Doe

• arm candy

• sidewalk superintendent

• drop

• to move

• lip

• mazuma; mazulla

• tawdry

• catch up with

• to shop around

• value above

• yuppify

• compositor/ composer

• ingredient

• freak-out

• moolah

• old hat

• grime

• get down

• tab (1)

• bench jockey

• stinker

• done to a turn

• calumniator

• trendy

• contactee

• formality

• thunderbolt

• ugly as a sin

• spell out

• easy money

• crumbum

• caramello

• accord/ chord/ piece-work

• xeno

• strike up

• Nerts!

• Hollywood

• clink

• I('ve) been there.

• one-man show

• stalking horse

• think tank

• incisive

• peel

• count on

• pizzazz

• breast / bust