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