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