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Swan around

Move around in a leisurely or showy way

Examples 

Anyone know if she is still swanning around dressed as a Tampon?

He likes to swan around the city on weekends.

Fire in one’s belly 

Being driven by something greater than oneself. It’s about having a sense of purpose and direction that fuels one’s actions and decisions. This idiom reminds us of the importance of passion and determination when striving towards our goals

Examples

Work with fire in your belly, then success will chase you.

Think she’s brilliant. Got some fire in her belly…

Kick around a bag of wind

Speak at too great a length, saying little of value and often with an air of pretentious authority

Example

He made a lot of money by kicking around a bag of wind. He is now trying to do so with hot air.

Plank 

Dull, slow-witted, stupid

Examples 

That movie was so bad, I felt like I was watching a plank for two hours.

Hey, that guy over there is such a plank.

He is a plank. 

Thick as two planks.

Goofy

Silly or stupid, especially in an amusing way

Example 

…are always doing goofy things such as glueing themselves to the road…

A smart cookie

A person who is smart

Example 

She’s a smart cookie. I just think she got the wrong job at the wrong time.

Chip away at 

Gradually and relentlessly make something smaller or weaker

Examples 

“rivals may chip away at one’s profits by undercutting prices”

“the constant stream of scandals chips away credibility”

…will use unrest to justify chipping away at  everyone’s freedom?

Tinpot 

Having or showing poor leadership or organization

Examples 

“he was branded a tinpot dictator””

He is a tinpot dictator.

Put a gold door-knob on a slum

Put together two incompatible things

Example 

…is like putting a gold door-knob on a slum…

Balderdash

Senseless talk or writing; nonsense

Examples 

“she dismissed talk of plots as “bunkum and balderdash.””

What total and utter balderdash