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