• The point is that your chances are slim.

• cuttingly

• mean business

• have it all together

• hero

• glum / glume

• spreadeagled

• to pull in money

• hot number

• proclamation

• busyness / business

• tough buck

• fever / fewer

• vegetable

• discredit

• rook

• (good) heavens!

• ride the porcelain bus

• shade/ shadow

• railroad tracks

• duke someone out; duke out some-one

• hit the panic button

• fatigue

• scrape up

• pound one's ear

• Philly

• It's not as easy as you think.

• trap

• flush off

• scrag

• middle-of-the-roader

• sustain

• shout down

• get one's stuff together

• squealer

• plop

• run over

• meatspace

• sometime / sometimes

• ralph something up; ralph up something

• For all I know, this travel agency always arranges everything.

• clobber

• eminent

• let sleeping dogs lie

• cheat on

• blob

• bug

• technicolor yawn

• grotty

• get one's shit together

• television/ radio

• ticker

• P.G.; PG

• rolling in it/ money

• get nowhere fast

• rush out

• impractical / impracticable

• lively

• tiresome/ tiring

• untouched

• grease monkey

• do-or-die

• that's done it!

• come unscrewed

• dust someone off; dust off someone

• crate

• viewshaft

• tricks of trade

• Shake the lead out!

• speech

• invitation

• bonkbuster

• to be on the dole

• no sweat

• clunkhead

• cough up

• give someone the finger

• non compos

• jerry

• mac out

• broody/ brooding

• cut some Z's

• wait in

• fix

• tax-dodger

• to be keen on

• too big for one's britches (boots)

• claim

• uncover

• hell of a someone or something

• huddle

• presence of mind

• genteel

• entertainer

• squib

• out

• draught/ drought

• scag

• rank

• Dammit!

• monkey

• lose one's temper

• falter out

• bitlegging

• on the shelf

• Keep in touch.

• yummy

• whole wide world

• bus girl

• I'm not kidding.

• (to) skate on thin ice

• schmooze

• one-track mind

• daggy

• atone

• rub out

• splog

• elongate

• T.

• five-finger discount

• step right up

• top banana / top dog

• it ain't nothing but a chicken wing

• for free

• hustle

• dopey

• odd-bod

• goof

• rot

• hung

• demimonde

• earthiness

• wouldn't touch someone or something with a ten-foot pole

• go fooey

• stitch

• on the cheap

• kennel

• start out

• be in league with sb

• a daredevil

• au contraire

• punk

• totalled

• kipple

• white elephant

• double for

• Estrange / strange

• big stink

• burn off

• eighteen wheeler

• ashram

• play ball (with someone)

• opportunity/ chance

• knocked out

• fit-out

• legitimation

• barrel

• frail

• heat

• to get on like a house on fire

• big house

• lights out

• carry about

• to cover one's tracks

• whack something (out); whack out something

• copy down

• young blood

• fade

• berries

• significant

• człowiek strzela Pan Bóg kule nosi

• on one's (or its) last leg

• hoser

• start-up

• headbone

• hit the bricks/ pavement

• lea

• kagilliaton

• dot/ (full) stop/ point

• xero/ xerox

• neanimorphic

• Freeze!

• straight

• dependable

• suit

• a slowcoach

• can

• dining / dinning

• vertical / vortical

• get on with

• hell's half acre

• bathos

• well-fixed

• elfin

• laughing soup/ water

• yeardisc

• swell up

• binge

• cut a deal

• help down