• What gives?

• drubbing

• casually / causally

• pound the books

• lummox; lummux

• high, wide and handsome

• all the rage

• play

• break bread

• weekend warrior

• all the way live

• inedia

• take a crack/ whack at something

• legit

• make use of

• zod

• gazoony

• welfariat

• unfold to

• go down

• live with (something)

• Mexican breakfast

• (to have) a green fingers ( am. - thumb)

• subtle

• never mind / never you mind

• grovel

• the tide has turned

• shoot from the hip

• cast / caste

• Mr. Big

• take a pop at someone

• guaggy

• eggbeater

• to get airtime

• spurt

• bluff out

• abet in

• you name it

• click with

• a fin

• thin-skinned

• to come within the scope of the contract

• can

• hacker

• peal / peel

• acid

• dirty

• swinging

• labonza

• roach

• drudge

• topless

• reform / re-form

• a golden hello

• showcase

• demo

• Dutch act

• scrub

• rotsee

• idiot card

• help down

• I'm not too keen on the idea.

• tope

• puttyhead

• cadge from

• Awesome!

• annex / annexe

• milktoast

• trumped up

• macho

• meathead

• tweak

• censure/ censor

• standing ovation

• swing shift

• york

• it's all gravy baby

• pawky

• headcount

• morbid

• grisly / grizzly

• wiped (out)

• jaw away

• smooth away

• environs

• O.D.

• death / dearth

• irritainment

• bounce

• call off

• steamy

• in deep

• putrid

• eavesdrop

• key figure

• two-bit

• bite the dust

• grind

• backlash

• gain/ earn

• to be put under the microscope

• barf

• to bore the pants off somebody

• rap sheet

• pink-slipped

• milk-and-water

• come out of

• latitude

• induce

• rocker

• where the action is

• annoy / enjoy

• stump for

• bullion/bouillon

• hush money

• on tap

• century note

• change for the better/worse

• trite

• to have the shorts

• go beyond

• to punch someone's lights out

• to sell off

• benzene

• dope something out; dope out some-thing

• rust belt

• off da heazy

• formality

• get up / stand up

• white coat rule

• munchies

• hype

• vital statistics

• set back

• to have enough on one's plate

• guzzle

• according to

• stargazer

• vic

• steer clear

• absorbing

• corsage

• shoot someone down in flames

• half-cut

• to get out of line

• piss-ant*

• crumble / crumple

• saddled with someone or something

• run one's rhymes

• lousy

• overjoyed

• serious about someone

• killmequick

• blower

• benjie

• shotgun wedding

• fix over

• have it made in the shade

• cuddle up

• hassle

• rocky mountain canary

• take the fifth

• ding

• flusher

• unattainable

• the blackboard jungle

• sad grad

• coarse

• rustle up

• page through

• spirit rapping

• gig

• work at

• bracket creep

• percolate through

• seed

• golf

• frienemy

• clichéd

• kiss someone off; kiss off someone

• tank up

• fast

• malaise

• whoozis; whozit

• to pop for sth

• strachy na Lachy

• conscience

• asking price

• salt and pepper

• shmooze

• auction fever

• pizza face

• pendular

• queer-beer

• surprise

• to blow in sth

• lose one's temper

• pill-dropper

• Come off it!

• put someone out of the way