Cross with Me Expressions

Long time no see. During this time I managed to gather up a lot of useful expressions. Watch them all. I like "cross with me" the most.

1. That may be... but our species do have a common ancestor.
   • ancestor - a person, typically one more remote than a grandparent, from whom one is descended
   • be descended form - be a blood relative of (a specified ancestor)
2. However, as employers became more aware of the prohibitions in the new law, race discrimination increasingly took on more subtle
   • subtle - so delicate or precise as to be difficult to analyse or describe
3. Loners don't tend to last long.
   • loner - a person that prefers not to associate with others
4. When joking we call motorcycles models AJS as All Junk and Scrap.
   • junk - old or discarded articles that are considered useless or of little value
   • scrap - any waste articles or discarded material
5. If you bought a car model MGB now you have Money Grabbing Bastard.
6. Regarding the latter, he said that the Russian delegation would introduce amendments to make it more concise and simpler.
   • concise - giving a lot of information clearly and in a few words; brief but comprehensive
7. You had better cover your backside and get insurance for that car or else someone could sue you for everything you own.
   • cover your backside - to do something to protect yourself from blame or criticism in the future (very informal, also UK offensive cover your arse, also US offensive cover your ass/butt)
8. Speak to him and then ring me up.
   • ring up – speak by using telephone
9. Is she cross with me?
   • to be cross with smb - being angry with someone
10. You can give me notice.
11. He was shoved and ordered around by every bloated horse trader, by every drunken deck hand
    • desk hand - sailor
12. The wolves killed coyotes, and as a result of that, the number of rabbits and mice began to rise, which meant more hawks, more weasels, more foxes, more badgers.
    • badger - a heavily built omnivorous nocturnal mammal of the weasel family, typically having a grey and black coat
13. Myron, we don't pass wind without a military escort.
    • to pass wind – to fart
14. In the grammar of some languages, the accusative, or the accusative case, is the case used for a noun when it is the direct object of a verb, or the object of some prepositions. In English, only the pronouns `me', `him', `her', `us', and `them' are in the accusative.
15. Nature never plays dice.
    • dice - a small cube with each side having a different number of spots on it, ranging from one to six, thrown and used in gambling and other games involving chance
16. That's the way the cookie crumbles - that's the way the situation is, and it must be accepted, however undesirable.
17. I thought I throw the idea into the hat.
    • throw idea into the hat - to submit one's own or someone else's idea for consideration in a selection, such as a competition, brainstorming, discussion, etc.