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