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