• buzzard

• bungler

• lubrication

• talk away

• vermin

• up for grabs

• zeek out

• absent (oneself) from

• to get a first

• trash

• gift (sb) with

• pawky

• rubber

• What'll it be?

• pop

• breeder

• lose one's shirt

• tub of lard; tub of guts

• ration

• long green

• one of the faithful

• history

• rank someone (out); rank out someone

• botany babe

• half-canned

• guttle

• scratch

• package

• jim-dandy

• whing-ding

• darb

• To be right up one's street

• inept

• contestant / contester

• glop

• nybble

• jelly shoes; jellies; jelly sandals

• variety

• touch on

• level with someone

• to jack around

• railroad tracks

• murky bucket(s)

• flurry

• sullenly

• music/ musician

• boner

• paste into

• to-do

• umpteen

• artificial

• jig is up

• brainstorm

• blaster

• sawed-off

• speculate in

• K.O.

• whitewash

• decided

• softs

• As the saying goes, you're never too old to learn.

• boilerplate language

• moolah

• rug rat

• damn

• low rent

• telegraph one's punches

• to dog it

• allergy

• get round to (doing)

• run down some lines

• eery

• earful

• attn

• appal/ appeal

• defrock

• work permit

• set one's face against sth

• poo

• whooper-up(per)

• eye-popper

• ordure

• Hell!*

• glommed

• pipe down

• vagrant

• sign up

• flair

• shitty*

• yup; yep

• back away

• oddments

• fogey

• onrush

• break the ice

• clodhopper

• to wrap up a discussion

• cop

• eagle-eye

• backognize

• rent/ retirement pension

• wigged (out); wiggy

• shoot 'em up

• banger

• telly addict

• salt horse

• the bottom line

• gruesome

• masterpiece

• compliment/ complement

• swipe

• nut-foundry

• It's strictly from hunger.

• access/ assess

• tighten one's belt

• duff

• shake a leg

• rig

• turn up

• yack

• abash

• rob someone blind

• barman / barmaid

• long story short

• goof

• jubilant

• schlock

• filter/ infiltrate

• Woopty-woo

• to rake over old ashes

• Dutch bargain

• decent / descent

• hickey; hicky

• forty winks

• bundle of nerves

• nonce word

• crevice

• swot up

• fathead

• mutton

• answer/ answer to

• celebratory

• con man

• hell

• roam

• cop a squat

• on the wire

• fry

• carrying a heavy load

• inexperienced

• act for

• suck face

• dickens

• clean out

• joint

• gullible

• egghead

• public-spirited

• maraud

• leave / live

• leads

• do someone dirt

• ace in the hole

• lumpus

• artificially

• squint

• piss elegant*

• run-in

• meany; meanie

• fizzle out

• ick

• goon-platoon

• hoosegow

• in the nick of time

• schmooze; schmoose

• busta

• backroom boys

• bust

• the old-boy network

• like gangbusters

• slush (2)

• macho

• bad trip

• ramify

• wipe someone out; wipe out someone

• airy-fairy

• bligh

• century spot

• hand someone something

• galen

• kabash

• stacker

• poisonous / venomous

• fizz up

• accidentally

• young blood

• sucker for women

• diddle

• Stuff a sock in it!

• dove-eyed