James Dunne

The quiet Irishman is about as harmless as a powder magazine built over a match factory.

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take a powder

[take a powder] {v. phr.}, {slang} To leave hurriedly; run out or away; desert, flee. * /All the gang except one had taken a powder when the police arrived./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

jerry-built

[jerry-built] {adj.} 1. Built poorly or carelessly of cheap materials; easily broken. * /That jerry-built cabin will blow apart in a strong wind./ 2. Done without careful preparation or thought; […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

George Bernard Shaw

(1856-1950), "The Impossible Irish," 1907 Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him. www.sky-net-eye.com

meet one's match

[meet one's match] {v. phr.} To encounter someone as good as oneself. * /The champion finally met his match and lost the game./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

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по-барабану

[по-барабану] {adv. phr.} {informal} {colloquial} {slang} {used by youth} [po-bara`banu] Not caring abt. smt. * […]

in order to

[in order to] or [so as to] {conj.} For the purpose of; to. - Used with an infinitive. * /In order to follow the buffalo, […]

nervous prostration

[nervous prostration] {n.} An illness of the mind that makes you feel very tired, worried, and bored, and that often causes […]

Yiddish curse

Leeches should drink him dry.