• keep the ball rolling

• final nail in the coffin

• an ugly duckling

• a stumbling-block

• fall into place

• a splinter group

• plain sailing

• take a telling

• a slinging-match

• as easy as falling off a log

• all in good time

• take the king's shilling

• have the ball in one's court

• burn a hole in his pocket

• all in all

• wash one's dirty linen

• wheeling and dealing

• the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

• all in one

• feel in one's bones

• fill in for him

• a nail in his coffin

• call in into question

• in a twinkling of an eye

• fall in

• roll in

• be spoiling for it

• capital investment

• the pot calling the kettle black

• wash one's dirty linen in public

• all in a day's work