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