• be caught with one's pants down

• beat a path

• be made for it

• be at odds with him

• be wise after the event

• be all over bar the shouting

• be out of practice

• be a new one on him

• be spoiling for it

• stand up and be counted

• be to the point

• be in short supply

• not to be able to see the wood for the trees

• not to be in the same street as

• be asking for trouble

• be up to no good

• be in his line of country

• be a match for him

• be on a winning streak

• be on speaking terms

• be in the middle of doing it

• be taken with it

• be get in a stew

• be up with him

• that will be the day

• be meat and drink to him

• be over the hump

• be go down with

• be a marked man

• beat a hasty retreat

• be up against it