Related Clues:

• Expression I love: 'Dusky shrouds'
• "Apple of my eye," for example
• One is 'easy as pie'
• Shoot the breeze, e.g
• Bite the bullet, e.g
• "Burn the midnight oil," for one
• I had isolated part of the UK, in a manner of speaking
• Non-standard dialect
• Cash in one's chips or pay the ultimate price, e.g
• Are you texting in tweets, having got confused? It's hard to say
• Hit the road, say
• Way of speaking to fish and duck
• Group jargon
• 'In the red,' for one
• Computerese, e.g