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English Slang Idioms (21)

He was sick of working for companies that weren't above......... in their business practices. Too many of them had cut illegal or unethical corners.
He wanted to be with his wife and didn't want to hear one more soldier with him in Iraq say, "Absence makes the ......... grow fonder."
He was the clumsiest kid she had ever seen — a definite ......... just waiting to happen.
She hadn't lost the election yet, so she never even let on that she had an ace in the ..........
"Why are you smiling?" Jim asked. "You're about to lose this match; do you have an ......... up your sleeve or something?"
He knew that his opponent had a weakness; he just had to find her Achilles' ..........
He knew that his competitors had a chink in their ......... somewhere. He just had to locate it.
He performed an ......... test on the business he wanted to invest in and saw that it was in a good position to pay its current liabilities.
There have been many across-the-......... changes in the Army since Tim was an active soldier. Everything is different now.
"Don't feel bad, Derek. You couldn't stop the tree from falling on your sister's car after you borrowed it from her. It's an ......... of God," his mother said.