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Sweep under the carpet 

To ignore, deny, or conceal from public view or knowledge something that is embarrassing, unappealing, or damaging to one’s reputation

Example

Come on let’s have all the info on him. It is too important to be swept under the carpet.

In the cards

Very likely or certain to happen, occur, or take place

Examples 

If you keep performing at this level, I think a promotion is in the cards.

35% tariff on Canada still in the cards, Lutnick says

Blimey 

Used to express one’s surprise, excitement, or alarm

Examples 

Never thought/ I would be pleased to see him blimey back on the scene.

“Blimey! How on earth did she say that to you without a blush?”

Smoke and mirrors

The obscuring or embellishing of the truth of a situation with misleading or irrelevant information

Examples 

“the budget process is an exercise in smoke and mirrors”

Smoke and mirrors. This is a key example of why we must look at what he says with a grain of salt. Or, at least we should look more at what’s under the smoke or behind the mirror.

Not a cat in hell’s chance 

No chance at all; absolutely no chance or opportunity 

Examples 

Not a cat in hell’s chance Mr President. Choose your side and stick to it!!! 

There’s not a cat in hell’s chance of them getting into the playoffs this year.

Telling off

The act of speaking angrily to someone because they have done something wrong

Examples 

He like the naughty schoolboy getting a telling off.

He gave me a good telling-off for forgetting the meeting.

Sort out

To deal in a forceful way with 

Examples 

And when we rang the alarm bells in the Commons,  ministers did nothing to sort out the situation.

He should be sorting out this country before anything else. The man is hopeless.

Reap the whirl wind

To suffer the negative consequences of one’s actions. This phrase originated in the Bible

Examples 

If you don’t do your homework now, you’ll reap the whirlwind when you have to take your final exam.

That’s what the advertisement said that compelled my wife to sit through a two-hour seminar on the benefits of buying into their insurance plan as twenty-somethings. At one point, the speaker informed us that if we weren’t responsible with our finances now, we’d reap a whirlwind later.

Slime

A morally repulsive or odious person

Example 

OMG. Somebody needs to educate the president into what most sensible, sane Brits really think about Slime ..

Stitch up

Manipulate a situation so that someone is placed at a disadvantage or wrongly blamed for something

Example 

This is the weasel who sent other weasels to stitch the president up!