He's so CHEAP he didn't even buy me a card for my birthday (US)/ CHEAP/ I wish you'd stop making CHEAP jokes about my friends. (Unpleasant and unkind)

(IFML) A self-confessed SHOPAHOLIC, Diane loved looking for new clothes with her two daughters.

AMEBA (US) (PLURAL: AMEBAE, AMEBAS)

DRINK LIKE A FISH

An extra $20 million has been BUDGETED FOR schools this year/ You will have to learn how to BUDGET your time to get all your work done=> BUDGET airlines have forced major airlines to lower some of their prices.

"Why do these things always happen to me?" is a RHETORICLAL QUESTION

Could you STEP ON IT? I'm late.

After he lost his job, he GOT INTO debt. Are you trying to GET ME INTO trouble?=> When he GOT his girlfriend INTO TROUBLE, her parents wanted them to marry. (OLD-FASHIONED)

The most STRINGENT laws in the world are useless unless there is the will to enforce them/ (FINACNE&ECONOMICS) (Involvin nt enough money bein available fo borrowin as a result f firm controls on the amount f money in an economy)

SALTWATER fish, SALTWATER crocodiles=> SALT WATER (sea water

I'm a little WARY OF/ABOUT giving people my address when I don't know them very well.

There are many priorities, but reducing the budget deficit is PARAMOUNT/is of PARAMOUNT importance.

The article DREDGED UP details of her unhappy childhood/ Survivors of the disaster are still DREDGING UP new fragments of their ordeal.