• stick around

• rubber-stamp

• Dutch courage

• as stiff as a poker

• pluck up courage

• anchors away

• a nosey parker

• get one's knickers in a twist

• Davy Jones's locker

• scare him stiff

• knock around

• bore scare him stiff

• do it by a whisker

• put the mockers on it

• ring down the curtain

• a baker's dozen

• make his hair curl on end

• screw up one's courage

• not to give a tinker's cuss for it

• keep one's pecker up

• make oneself scarce

• blood is thicker than water

• stand corrected

• off one's rocker

• hook line and sinker

• scare him out of his wits

• a miscarriage of justice

• baker's dozen

• their on curtain

• the cat's whiskers