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To refuse to continue working
To down tools
To be experiencing a bad situation
Be down on my luck
To be available to be taken or won
Be up for grabs
A deposit (noun)
A down payment
To be tired and ill
Be run down
To be likely to succeed soon or in the future
Be up and coming
To pay in advance
Pay up front
To be behaving  in a dishonest or bad way
Be up to no good
To be unhappy
Be down in the dumps
To be in a difficult situation with no way of getting out
Be up the creek without a paddle
To be distracted
Be miles away
When other people seem to be in a better situation than you
The grass is always greener (on the other side)
To not know all the facts of a situation
Have your head in the clouds
To be too worried about the details than you miss the general idea
See the wood for the trees
To delay making a decision
Sit on the fence
To make a small problem seem like a big one
Make a mountain out of a molehill
To worry about a possible future problem when/if it happens
Cross that bridge when I come to it
To no longer have a problem or difficulty
Be out of the woods
A bad situation which is likely to get worse
A slippery slope
To be facing a difficult task
Have a mountain to climb
To start a process again
Get back to the drawing board
To understand
Get the picture
Very moden and using the most recent ideas and methods (adjective)
State of the art
To provisionally arrange an appointment
Pencil in
A situation where nothing has been decided (noun)
A blank canvas
To consider the facts and make a decision
Draw your own conclusions
To tell a different verion 
Paint a different picture
A person who deceives other people by making them believe something false or making them give money away (noun)
A con artist
A story containing few details (adjective)
Sketchy
To tell someone the facts about a situation
Put him in the picture
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