• mouse race

• hardscrabble

• opt for

• footslog

• dead to the world

• holy stink

• danceable

• Let's hope for the best but prepare for the worst.

• nondescript

• whirly bird

• professed/professional

• hostility / hospitality

• choke down

• fly-by-night

• grand; G.

• dress (oneself)/ dress up/ get dressed

• milktoast

• co dwie głowy to nie jedna

• puppy

• jack someone up; jack up someone

• to brush up one's French, German, Spanish etc.

• two-umlauts

• come from

• to be(lie) in tatters/one's life is(lies) in tatters

• grassroots

• abe

• fib

• historic

• yawp

• gung-ho

• lubrication

• roll

• compare

• fly at

• dehisce

• scuzz someone out; scuzz out someone

• rasta

• drive back on

• abbeverate

• hell of a note

• dispute / row

• scarf

• hands-on

• yabbo

• wench

• headbanging

• dry-house guilt

• truck

• head buyer

• one's bag

• guesstimate

• lay down to

• open shop

• hot

• wrongful dismissal / unfair dismissal

• to be in the limelight

• reach for the sky

• whiz

• jag

• with immediate effect

• supererogatory

• talk through one's hat

• to be enough to make a cat laugh

• powder monkey

• zuzzy

• top banana / top dog

• line up against

• chide

• weeds

• torch song

• lemony / lemon-yellow

• money down the drain

• picky

• freak (out)

• twitter

• gamble away

• blow up at

• half in the bag

• kludgy

• bully

• maze

• easy street

• genius / genus

• speaker

• nose around

• black and white

• pad

• badittude

• flathead

• couple / pair

• have guts

• take a gander (at someone or something)

• nut-foundry

• take the fifth

• spaść / stoczyć się na samo dno

• improve/ increase

• pressed (for money)

• private eye

• shank

• buckle up

• elder-proof

• plummet

• bag your face!

• whiskers

• jobbernowl

• reinvent the wheel

• longueur

• magnifying glass

• rinky-dink

• chocolate-box

• faze / phase

• What can I do you for?

• flunky

• feep

• hobble

• rat race

• rocker

• wylać dziecko z kąpielą

• not know from nothing

• do over

• archon

• assistant / attendant

• cash cow

• liveware

• grunt

• clam up

• bleat

• agonies

• deploy

• jocose

• order in

• downaging

• priceless/ worthless

• wink away

• When all is said and done, I think we shouldn't take it seriously.

• broody/ brooding

• employee

• (be) keyed up

• do sth in one's capacity as

• grabbers

• to be in someone's black books

• discount

• inescapably

• paddy wagon

• salt and pepper

• to earn one's wings

• tab

• go off with

• I'm ghost

• Potterhead

• dad

• baby-kisser

• mower

• tough egg to crack

• the Himalayas

• bold-faced

• sproutsy

• a bookworm

• to talk shop

• każdy jest kowalem swego losu

• to clear a cheque

• noise

• sweet tooth

• cuttingly

• ducks

• get one's shit together

• compassionate

• gratification/ gratuity

• see you later, alligator

• fence-mending

• You and what army?

• protract

• a fair shake

• picture

• take a bath (on something)

• take

• cabbagehead

• intrude

• when the eagle flies

• opportunity/ chance

• previously

• have a bad/guilty conscience

• to shoot up

• close-knit

• soak through

• first-hand

• absorbing

• What (a) nerve!

• work one's tail/ but off

• face-saving

• flak / flake

• bump into

• climb down

• putative

• tightwad

• What in the world?

• sideline

• sticky

• seized

• saint/ holy/ sacred