| to beat it | to go away |
| to bug | to annoy |
| to bung | throw/give/put |
| to chuck | to throw or give |
| to flog | to sell |
| to hammer sb | to beat sb/another team very easily and very convincingly |
| to knock | criticise |
| to nip to | to go somewhere for a short time |
| to pop | to quickly put |
| to scoff | to eat quickly and greedily |
| to scrounge | to borrow, especially money |
| to stink | to have a bad smell |
| airy-fairy | not practical or realistic |
| chock-a-block | very crowded with people or cars |
| clapped-out | old and in bad condition (for cars and machines) |
| daft | silly, not sensible |
| dodgy | risky and dangerous/dishonest and untrustworthy/weak (body) |
| gross | disgusting to look at, taste or think about |
| hush-hush | secret |
| lousy | bad |
| mucky | dirty |
| nippy | cold |
| posh | expensive and upper class |
| tacky | poor quality, cheap and showing a lack of good taste |
| tatty | old and in bad condition |
| weird | strange |
| to chicken out | not to do sth because you are afraid |
| to chuck (sth) | to get rid of sth |
| to conk out | to break down (for machines and cars) |
| to cough up | to pay sb money |
| to hit it off | to really like one another (two people) |
| to rip sb off | to cheat sb out of money |
| to set sb back | to cost |
| to slag sb off | to criticise sb |
| to wind (sb) up | to tease sb in order to annoy or provoke them |
| to have sb doing sth | to make sb do sth that they probably do not want to do |
| to be pointless | to have no sense or purpose |
| to resent sth happening/sb doing sth | to feel angry and bitter about sth |
| to be (well) worth doing | it would be a good idea to do |
| you would be better off doing sth | used to introduce advice |
| to be the first/second/last person to | sb is the first/second/last person that |
| can’t be bothered to do sth | don’t feel like making the effort to do sth |
| sth/sb is bound to | sth/sb is certain to happen/do sth because it has happened/they have done it before |
| to be certain to | to be sure sth will happen or sb will do sth |
| to fall to/neglect to do sth | not to do what you should have done |
| to know better than to do sth | to be old or experienced enough to know sth is the wrong thing to do |
| not to know how best to do sth | not to know the best way to do sth |
| to manage to do sth | to succeed in doing sth difficult |
| to wish to do sth | (formal) would like to do sth |
| to come close to doing sth | to almost do sth |
| to be committed to sth | to believe strongly in sth |
| not to feel up to doing sth | not to feel well enough to do sth |
| to object to doing sth/sb doing sth | to dislike and feel angry about sth because you think it is wrong or unfair |
| to resort to doing sth | to do sth you disapprove of because you feel that it is the only way you can succeed |
| to dread | +to: I dread TO think (what) | +ing: to dislike and be frightened of sth you have to do |
| to go on | +to: to proceed, after doing sth else | +ing: to continue |
| to mean | +to: to intend | +ing: to involve, entail |
| to regret | +to: to be sorry to | +ing: to be sorry about sth that has/hasn’t happen |