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