[ante up] {v.}, {informal} To produce the required amount of money in order to close a transaction; to pay what one owes. * /"I guess I'd better ante up if […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

Robert Benchley

(1889-1945) U.S. humorist Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment. www.english-slang.com

amount to

[amount to] {v.} Signify; add up to. * /John's total income didn't amount to more than a few hundred dollars./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

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Friedrich Nietzshe

The Germans are like women. You can scarcely ever fathom their depths--they haven't any.

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filth (the)

[filth (the)] {n.} The police (derogatory).

ad lib

[ad lib] {v. phr.} To improvise; interpolate during speech. * /When the actress forgot her lines during the second act, she […]

brave it out

[brave it out] {v. phr.} To endure something difficult or dangerous through to the end; keep on through trouble or danger. * […]

I would like to buy a hamburger

A fragment from "Pink Panther" movie: the French secret agent tries to learn the correct English accent to avaiod suspision.

go-go

[go-go] {adj.}, {slang}, {informal} 1. Vigorous youthful, unusually active. * /Joe is a go-go kind of guy./ 2. Of a […]

lounge lizard

[lounge lizard] {n. phr.} A well-dressed male fortune hunter who sits around in bars and other public places, and attends many […]