• to trade up

• dumb down

• alarm/ alert

• crone / crony

• marauder

• aim for the sky

• buck

• fag

• windfall

• I'm not too keen on the idea.

• brace up

• in company with

• French kiss

• a blank cheque

• blow jive

• straight up

• in the pink

• freeloader

• kicky

• hack around

• all-star

• urge forward

• yock

• reet and compleat

• grease

• chować głowę w piasek

• obstruction

• catchpenny

• polymath

• priggery

• lepszy rydz niż nic

• manana

• bird-dog

• character / hero

• cut corners

• funk

• tater

• babydult

• sap

• bum

• deschool

• He pretended to his wife that everything was fine.

• tampering with the market

• celebrity

• deplorably

• loco

• affect/ effect

• chum up

• one of the faithful

• antiskeptic

• see across

• auteurist

• come into

• duck into

• tall in the saddle

• to try one's hand

• near-beer

• conferee

• layoff / layout

• hopped up

• repetition/ revision

• ramrod

• stoked out

• left-hand / left-handed

• bookling

• Yech!; Yecch!

• buzz along

• pinch

• open and above board

• barnacled

• punk

• to talk a load of codswallop

• pop up

• catchup / catch-up

• abash

• bold / bolt

• offbeat

• mic

• as I can remember/ as far as I can remember

• concussion

• go down

• glossary

• lay on

• excoriate

• go home

• bludgeon into

• shoddiness

• mieć serce z kamienia (jak głaz)

• P.G.; PG

• stay off

• the Himalayas

• schmoozer

• boys in blue

• put the screws on someone

• under someone's thumb

• wheel and deal

• keenness

• cool off

• busman's holiday

• deadly (dull)

• circumspection

• deep pockets

• can

• vacillate between

• give someone hell*

• come unscrewed

• stash

• rank and file

• hair / her

• pasta

• units

• ineradicable

• for / since

• bafflegab

• curl up

• lose one's cool

• drive up

• robić komuś wodę z mózgu

• bar chart

• funk

• McJob

• bad hair day

• ass-master

• dumb Dora

• majority

• mucho

• incongruity

• You can't get there from here.

• two-way street

• upchuck

• wimp out (of something)

• tear

• roam

• a night-cap

• quinquennium

• hoska

• choppy

• tough customer

• rat around

• pique

• to tighten the belt/to pull in one's belt

• advance on

• Trust me!

• lane

• committed

• out of the woods

• light

• sleet

• one for the book

• make a pig out of oneself

• fart

• wag one's chin

• deft / depth

• Chinese puzzle

• to do a Thatcher

• hand out

• evidence

• kill

• class monitor

• art/ the arts

• querulous

• on the side

• rip-off

• gory

• gravel-pounder

• get off

• cheer up!

• hack

• shrill

• suck (something up), suck (up something)

• stocky

• subacid

• shoot fish in a barrel

• shuck

• Go on!

• newjack

• altitude / attitude

• Are your boots laced?

• bean-fed

• lose one's mind

• brevity

• blaze with

• immaculate

• take the trouble

• to have money to burn

• enquire (inquire) after

• prop

• sick (up)

• hot

• pinch hitter

• pervert / perversive

• data/ date

• to make the grade

• odd-bod

• bootless

• stink about

• Jonestown defense

• toss-up

• uzz-fay

• That's the way the mop flops.