• deduck

• upbeat

• Does that seem to make sense?

• I'm not allowed to smoke

• urge on (1)

• waffle on

• satisfied

• valuejet

• maven; mavin

• barfly

• sulky

• camping

• D.O.A.; DOA

• split into

• geedis

• parlay and marinate

• tremulous

• hit

• track

• triple witching hour

• ankle (2)

• prevenient

• schmaltz

• quail

• prepense

• come apart

• dicey

• buoy up

• compare

• Fish or cut bait.

• hoarse

• fixed

• Jesus!

• eco freak; eco nut

• at a dead bargain

• max

• sclerosis

• Marble City

• dumb ox

• Gimmie what?

• drop

• dough

• junky

• draw back

• P

• banker's hours

• munchkin

• caboose

• to gear up (for sth)

• add to

• bounty hunter

• dagwood (sandwich)

• zuzzy

• get in with sb

• bunkie

• to blow money

• hunt-and-peck

• unquestionable

• neglectful

• ineluctable

• precede/ proceed

• miles from anywhere

• hyperdating

• notable

• media

• bagonize

• whip something into shape

• schedule/ timetable

• spell out

• crummy

• blown away (1)

• push

• make a big stink

• leeway

• mickey mouse

• pad

• click with

• to get side-tracked

• wind up

• glop

• local

• deranged

• fry / fray

• on the road to recovery

• Get lost!

• mudslinging

• enhance

• the queen bee of sth

• break even

• Vatican roulette

• asap

• bum

• stand tall

• misunderstanding

• have ants in one's pants

• cat burglar

• talk about

• yack

• Dow Jones Average

• playact

• it doesn't matter

• develop

• kicky

• take-off

• go-getter

• environs

• retard

• junglestiff

• count on

• flag

• hatchet man

• bed of roses

• goof

• to flack / to flak

• right up one's alley

• randy

• Stow it!

• K.O.

• sit on someone or something

• rip

• padded

• loss leader

• mountebank

• bolt

• a broken reed

• demimonde

• tawdry

• professed/professional

• callously

• paperhanging

• hacker

• fall over

• pastry/ pasta

• to take care of number 1

• tale / tail

• delayed / delaying

• look away

• To hell with that!

• Although this stuff is child's play, I bet he will bungle it.

• extirpate

• dolphin

• malaise

• wake up

• gourmet / gourmand

• macho

• tag

• back order

• centre / central

• lines

• come away

• squish

• switched on

• guard/ guardian

• to scratch one's head

• to have sth on the tip of one's tongue

• okay

• bumpy

• the board

• cackle

• package

• loco

• to buy (sth) sight unseen

• drop out

• come upon

• knockout

• sub(marine)

• coauthor

• comic (book) / comix

• exasperating

• lay a guilt trip on someone

• megadork

• exasperatedly

• big drink

• bovver boy

• asleep at the switch

• shimmer

• hermitage

• uptight; up tight

• songlifting

• whiskey tenor

• lap of luxury

• break dance / break-dance

• look around

• sticks

• bamboozle

• potato

• stink

• cagey

• croak

• Drink up!

• emotive

• squirrel-food

• sell a wolf ticket

• run

• scratch

• to clean (clear) sb out / to take sb to the cleaners

• goof-proof

• freeload

• fomp

• maxed out