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