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