Slang idioms

Quitting smoking is very hard. I quit a year ago, cold .....: no patch, no gum, nothing - and it was horrible.

The staff members were getting increasingly angry at the new boss. When asked about whether they were to be laid off or not, he responded in a way that left more questions than before. The double ..... was worse than if he had chosen not to answer in the first place.

"Look at Jake in his fireman's costume. I think he looks every ..... the fireman," Lisa said to Jake's dad when Jake came over to show them his Halloween costume.

"Mark is the best chess player in this state, hands ...... He has won every championship in this state that he has ever played in," his sister told the reporter.

The police were searching for him in town and in the nearby areas. His plan was to hide ..... for a while in an abandoned mine and then try to sneak into Mexico.

"Jim is an atypical kid. He is nice enough to talk to; he just doesn't like to play with others and prefers to be by himself. He is kind of in a ..... of his own," Greg said to Jim's teacher.

"Don't ..... up, Joe. You're going to be fine. You just scraped your knee," Luke said to his brother.

"So just because you got a bad grade, you're going to turn ..... and run away?" Bill asked his younger brother.

He has a reputation at work as a guy who shoots from the .....: quick to criticize people but slow to realize how his words might make them feel.

"May I have your attention please? I've decided to step ..... as CEO and appoint Gerald Hill to take my place," Mr Maxwell told his staff.