colloq.
11slick shift — (colloq.) (AE) to operate a slick shift …
12watz — (colloq.) (d; intr.) to watz through (she just watzed through the test; to complete with ease ) …
13swop — (colloq.) (BE) see swapI, II …
14apple-pie order — (Colloq.) Perfect order, fine or perfect trim …
15back out — (Colloq.) Withdraw from a bargain, not keep a promise, not stand to an engagement, retreat, withdraw, resile …
16bark up the wrong tree — (Colloq.) Mistake, err, make a mistake, be in the wrong box, on the wrong scent, or on the wrong track …
17beat hollow — (Colloq.) Surpass completely, excel beyond all question, beat out and out …
18beat into — (Colloq.) Teach (by laborious effort), instil, inculcate implant …
19cart before the horse — (Colloq.) Absurdity, absurd thing, hysteron proteron, topsy turvy …
20come to grief — (Colloq.) 1. Fail, result disastrously. 2. Be ruined, meet with disaster, come to a bad end …