Matching Pairs Business EnglishOnline version Business English Idioms by Natalia Dmitrieva 1 Pedro Brown was in the ball. 2 He started trying to pass the buck. 3 He had a good nose for a sale. 4 He began to lose his touch. 5 The boss gave him a piece of his mind. 6 Nobody put him in the picture any more. 7 He was always up to his eyes in work. 8 And he usually played his cards right. 9 But success went to his head. 10 And then he put his foot in it. 11 And in the end he was fired. 12 He had a good track record. He passed responsibility to other people. He made the right decisions. He talked to him very directly. He started to make mistakes. He was a natural salesman. He was a clever employee, he knew what was going on. He lost his job. His job experience was good. He began to have too important an opinion of himself. He was not told what was happening. He had too many things to do. He made a big mistake.
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