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