• lubricated

• flapjaw

• imprimis

• old soldier

• kewag

• faded

• golden opportunity

• tale / tail

• Take over

• yuck

• Estrange / strange

• well-off / well-to-do

• guys

• incisive

• fossil

• valour

• pitch into

• hooch hound; hooch head

• out

• stacker

• to go down in history

• back off (from someone)

• have the hungries

• get something going (with someone)

• free up

• scarf

• sit right with someone

• grubby

• overseas / oversee

• trash

• marbles

• skate

• sharp

• neck

• hitched

• colourize

• What's it to you?

• bar chart

• noise abroad

• notice/ take notice

• make tracks

• think through

• to smell blood

• high grade

• bluff into

• agonies

• howdy

• babe in the box

• nag

• wimp

• to leave a lot to be desired

• anguish

• pug-ugly

• wonk

• red hot

• skag

• convivially

• desert/ deserted/ dessert

• out of sight

• journal

• bohunk

• hock

• hardboiled

• spurt

• schmuck*

• interchange with

• B.S.

• draw down

• shape out or ship out

• butt in

• allusion

• no go ; no-go

• can

• nickel and dime someone (to death)

• stingy / stinging

• askable parent

• withdraw

• book on

• eat one's hat

• bushed

• back number

• prune / prone

• happy juice

• a-loin

• make it

• all-time

• astounded

• quaggy

• nay

• chicken

• choppers

• lay someone out; lay out someone

• forward to

• homeless / homesick

• creep

• it isn't a bed of roses

• allowance

• intimate / close

• sitting pretty

• salt horse

• hit the rack

• Tell me another (one)!

• eke out

• cloudlet

• chips

• yuk

• pity / pithy

• glued

• defiant

• cage in

• give someone hell*

• loco

• year-old / years old

• small talk

• wise up (to someone or something)

• gregarious

• grease

• zap

• to hoover

• concourse / competition

• nudy na pudy

• bigger fool theory

• tag

• whistle away / boo

• catch some Z's

• to drown one's sorrows

• doll

• nabber

• give someone the finger

• walk tall

• I was just saying I was going to take up a job in Ireland

• obvi

• derring-do

• mama bear

• suspend

• see you

• ask in

• riveted

• g'd up from the feet up

• derive

• to boot sb out: to get the boot / to give sb the boot

• dead-end job

• alpha girl

• Motown

• genteel

• to skinny sth down

• honey wagon/ cart

• It looks like they have other fish to fry.

• chickadee

• believe

• bluff out

• potatohead

• fleshmeet

• bleat

• land a blow

• gainsayer

• puke

• tip one's hand

• lecture at

• relentlessly

• squib

• alive and kicking

• to smell bacon

• do-gooder

• brainstorm

• revolve/ circulate

• queer-beer

• scene

• frank / true

• get across

• stonewall

• return

• gill

• teow

• all the way

• Do your best to finish it in time.

• roscoe

• mix in

• No lie!

• squirmy

• grate

• command / commend

• zerk

• empathetic / emphatic

• The auction turned out to be a tremendous success.

• L.I.Q.

• pull one's punches

• parental units

• elusive

• put away

• dorf

• gag

• speaker

• blunderbuss

• phony

• grubbers

• beastly

• pawn

• (to) burn up the road

• recipient