• I didn't use to believe in such things.

• hand-me-down

• blow one's top

• chill (out)

• interpret

• toss

• covet

• grubbs

• douceur

• ticketholder

• do oneself justice

• pour cold water on something

• brownfield

• hoser

• vent one's spleen

• sit still for something

• hot paper

• pissa

• commandment

• lugubrious

• ricky

• redress

• snag / snug

• fly kites

• sawbones

• rebuff

• toss something off; toss off something

• junk mail

• noodle

• in the raw <I>pot</I>.

• frost

• collar

• Look alive!

• popper

• eyewash

• painkiller

• hang left

• piddle (around)

• crisco

• un-necs

• bring over

• morsel

• two shakes of a lamb's tail

• hatch

• to have the run of the house

• grease

• horde / hoard

• nacho

• armchair research

• birth / berth

• offbeat

• starveling

• contingently

• hoocher; hootcher

• scene

• peppy

• trashed

• jerks

• vic

• to have a dirty tongue

• czarny jak smoła

• cosmic

• straight

• wiara góry przenosi

• knickknack

• a golden hello

• clean up after

• old lady/ woman

• better safe than sorry

• case the joint

• move / movie

• drink up

• slow your roll

• gunboats; battleships

• york

• palm (off) someone or something (off) (on someone)

• human/ humane

• savage

• pendular

• mount

• a mite

• butt

• crap*

• classis-chassis; classy-chassy

• stalemate

• Now tell me, what's eating/bothering you?

• kingpin

• incisive

• a laughing-stock

• spout / hock shop

• no great shakes

• hired gun

• dad

• in deep

• malicious

• shade/ shadow

• go underground

• nic / nic-head

• colour

• feeby; feebee

• acreage

• bar

• maxed out

• knuckle sandwich

• Win a few, lose a few.

• drive the big bus

• off da heazy

• rust belt

• still life

• for chicken feed

• quick buck; fast buck

• guesstimate

• speak up

• hotkey

• max

• comfy

• money from home

• loot

• lug(head)

• fancy goods

• pop the question

• yap

• A.W.O.L.

• trigger-happy

• can/ may

• mug

• unsung

• choke

• pinch

• extant / extent

• lay*

• hock

• swim in something

• arrive in

• blow town

• internment

• banalysis

• gazoo

• cat's paw

• mop

• nonpareil

• President / the President

• blue flu

• invidious

• lend/ borrow

• up tick / uptick

• sleepeater

• dump

• nohow

• chciwy dwa razy traci

• crocked

• tappet

• revelry

• blockhead

• pale beside

• Grand Central Station

• vacillate between

• right guy

• bust

• a bit/ a little bit/ a bit too

• blunder around

• confusing

• kick some ass (around)*

• bean time

• mosh

• back-ender

• aural

• Awesome!

• quadruped

• jam

• prepense

• stump

• squirmy

• hand on

• hands-on

• sweetie(-pie)

• crossly

• yuppie

• bag it

• deep-seated

• cruise

• have one's ass in a sling*

• cudgel / cudgel into

• rapid

• shuck

• tux

• Dig up!

• corps/ corpse/ corpus

• hit pay dirt

• correspondent/ co-respondent

• What's new?

• stand over

• eminent / eminence

• pinch

• oeuvre

• bulletproof

• level with someone

• nursery slope (BrE) / bunny slope (AmE)

• bug

• African black