• duck soup

• pick-me-up

• heavyweight

• red hot

• tore (up); torn (up)

• bear/carry

• scare the hell/ pants out of someone

• languid

• cream

• squirrel

• efface

• go-ahead

• imprimis

• unclued

• the jewel in the crown

• party animal

• bug

• proclamation

• compositor/ composer

• wolf something down; wolf down something

• ten-spot

• package deal

• delectable

• noise

• Please make sure that your passport is valid.

• wallop

• bout

• street

• to talk a load of codswallop

• pumped

• Chinese water-torture tactic

• wash down

• cheapie

• pirthee

• killjoy

• mop

• wire

• capital / capitol

• morbid

• sutra

• bonehead

• cinephile

• yegg

• angry with / angry about

• ptomaine-domaine; ptomaine palace

• grasp

• lack / luck

• grit one's teeth

• bulk

• reign/ govern

• cuttingly

• get with someone

• sign up

• break in/ break down

• invite

• creep joint; creep dive

• dig (2)

• Don't ask me.

• screamingly

• gainsayer

• to be in the loop / to be in the wired

• sad

• do with

• buffer

• uncool

• read out

• keepsake

• rad

• icky

• agree on

• tough break

• Fantabulous!

• retread

• uphill

• outbrave

• whisker

• sack time

• pill-pusher; pill-roller; pill-peddler

• truck

• galamble

• come back to

• sad sack

• fudge

• make a boo-boo

• mug

• pickler

• have something done

• cut loose

• unread bestseller

• factoid

• to milk sbsth

• in a blue funk

• in the black

• diehard

• ins and outs

• out of work

• honk

• taste

• strive / thrive

• Name your poison.

• commiserate

• blue-chipper

• lay someone out; lay out someone

• to pay down / to put money down

• flapdoodle; flamdoodle

• crocked

• doomsayer

• accede / exceed

• jam

• gink

• hear through

• fantasy

• randy

• basket case

• harry

• fuzz-face

• odious / odorous

• moonstruck

• impudent

• rap

• schtoonk

• mickey mouse

• pinstriper

• wearily

• upscale

• be at (one's) ease

• split on

• dirty mouth

• clubhouse

• cantankerous

• arsy-varsy

• fray

• triple witching hour

• chciwy dwa razy traci

• exurb

• sweetheart contract

• breathtakingly

• take the cure

• the big score

• zapped

• alternative/ alternate

• groupie

• hustler

• influential

• ticket

• Zip (up) your lip!

• above-the-line advertising

• put the squeeze on someone

• long dozen

• break

• had

• buzz off

• contrivance

• scag

• prelapsarian

• stickler

• take a bath (on something)

• allow out/ through

• double nickels

• donkey's years

• crown

• to take off for cash

• do time

• pluck; plug

• scarf out

• schlimazl

• get out

• doxy

• straight up

• tough row to hoe

• mental job

• button up

• on fire

• blag

• mandate

• keester

• funding / foundation

• put the arm on someone

• dogface

• copycat

• prosty jak drut

• gab

• cairn

• butt in

• hit

• variety

• example / copy

• cast about / around for

• God only knows!

• intimate / close

• lip

• hot-shot; hotshot

• shrink from

• descent/ decent

• top-drawer

• gulp down

• relevant

• bookkeeper

• hired gun

• hot