Slang idioms

Every time he looks at me, I feel like someone is dancing on my ...... He gives me the creeps.

"My best friend is on the gravy ..... now. He wrote three best-selling novels and makes more on the royalties a year than I have in the past ten years," Tom told his parents.

"When are you going to build the new shed, Jim?" his wife asked. He replied, "You know how busy I have been lately - especially with work and fixing the roof. All in ..... time, honey."

Many of the military's .....-ups have been exposed but one has to wonder how many more have gone undetected.

"Why are you all ..... up? You have a dinner dress on, your make-up done, and your hair styled and you told me that you were going to a faculty meeting tonight," Jane asked her roommate.

"Did you hear that Jay is in jail for punching his boss? He really flushed his career down the ..... when he did that," Christian said to Jesse.

"Your shed is in pretty poor ...... The back of the foundation is sinking and there is water getting into it from the roof. I can't help you with the foundation but we can look for ways to seal it," Rob said to Christian.

He was worried about his son. It wasn't like him to be off his ...... He usually ate like a pig and tonight he had barely touched his food.

"I am mad at the cable company. We keep getting charged for equipment rental the cable box and remote and that was not part of the deal. I asked them up ....., when we arranged for the service, if we would have any other charges other than the monthly service and they said no," Ken said to Cathy.

"I try to ..... up each candidate to see if they can physically perform warehouse work. Then I ask them about their skills and experience," Lou explained to Chris.