busybody

busybody(n)

someone who is too interested in other people's private activities - used to show disapproval

willful

willful (adj): continuing to do what you want, even after you have been told to stop - used to show disapproval

• a willful child

willful damage/disobedience/exaggeration etc: deliberate damage etc, when you know that what you are doing is wrong

—willfully adverb

—willfulness noun

pull over

pull over phrasal verb

to drive to the side of the road and stop your car, or to make someone else do this:

• The policeman signaled to him to pull over.

pull somebody/something ↔ over

• He pulled the car over.
• A cop pulled him over and gave him a speeding ticket.

rub salt into the wound

rub salt into the wound

informal/to make a bad situation even worse for someone

get (somebody) off somebody's back

get (somebody) off somebody's back /spoken/ to stop annoying someone with a lot of questions, criticisms etc or to make someone stop annoying you in this way:

• Maybe the only way to get him off my back is to tell him the truth.
• Do me a favor and get off my back !

get someone out of one's hair

to cause someone to stop annoying oneself. 

• What do I have to do to get this guy out of my hair.

trash / find fault with sb/sth

trash(v)informal/ to destroy something completely, either deliberately or by using it too much

• The place got trashed last time we had a party.

especially American English / to criticize someone or something very severely:

• The researchers are angry that attempts have been made to trash their work.

find fault with somebody/something: to criticize someone or something, often unfairly and frequently:

• He could always find fault with something, either in my writing or in my personality.

keep/lose track of somebody/something

keep/lose track of somebody/something: to pay attention to someone or something, so that you know where they are or what is happening to them, or to fail to do this:

• It's difficult to keep track of all the new discoveries in genetics.
• I just lost all track of time.

be/get carried away

be/get carried away: to be so excited, angry, interested etc that you are no longer really in control of what you do or say, or you forget everything else:

• It's easy to get carried away when you can do so much with the graphics software.

can-do

can-do (adj): willing to try anything and expect that it will work

• He has a wonderful can-do attitude towards work.
• I hold a can-do attitude.

back off / back off / back out

back up: especially American English to make a vehicle move backwards:

• The truck stopped and then backed up.

car [intransitive and transitive] especially British English /if a vehicle or its driver reverses, they go backwards [= back up American English]

reverse out of/into etc

• Bob reversed into a parking space.

back something ↔ up

• I backed the car up a little.

to move backwards:

• Back up a bit so that everyone can see.

back off 

to move backwards, away from someone or something

• She backed off and then turned and ran.

back out

to decide not to do something that you had promised to do

• It's too late to back out now.
• After you've signed the contract, it will be impossible to back out.