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• pet peeve
  plural noun: pet peeves
  something that a particular person finds especially annoying.
  "one of my biggest pet peeves is poor customer service"
• As for correctness, conditions without parentheses are a recipe for silly mistakes.
• a person to whom one turns for help or support; also called go-to person.
• meet with someone
  to have a meeting with someone. I will meet with all of them on Monday. When can I meet with you?
  See also: meet, with
  meet with something

1. [for someone] to experience something, such as an accident. Poor Carlo met with a serious accident. Henry always feared meeting with a horrible fate.
2. [for someone or something] to strike or touch something. That board is supposed to meet perfectly with the surface of the wall. Her head met with the top of the car a number of times during the journey.
3. to encounter some kind of response. The proposal met with unexpected opposition. Her speech was met with universal approval.

• at a push
  phrase of push
  1.
  BRITISHinformal
  if absolutely necessary; only with a certain degree of difficulty.
  "there's room for four people, or five at a push"
  synonyms:
  if necessary, in case of necessity, if need be, if needs must, if forced,if all else fails, in an emergency"at a push, you could use a disk editor to recover files"
• bells and whistles
  phrase of bell
  1.informal
  attractive additional features or trimmings.
• allow something for something

1. to allocate a share or a suitable amount of something, such as time, money, space, etc., for some activity or goal. I allowed only an hour for lunch. They did not allow enough money for their expenditures this month.
2. to give consideration to circumstances or contingencies. We allowed room for expansion when we designed the building. Allowing for his youth and lack of experience, I forgave him completely for his oversight.

• hook it up
  make it happen
  about the goods for the party - my friend who works the streets said he could hook it up.
• An out of the box feature or functionality (also called OOTB or off the shelf), particularly in software, is a feature or functionality of a product that works immediately after installation without any configuration or modification.[1]
  [2]
  It also means that it is available for all users by default, and are not required to pay additionally to use those features, or needs to be configured.
• wrap my brain around it
  Make sense of.
  "That algebra equation is really difficult. I can't wrap my brain around it"
• blow someone or something over
  [for the wind] to move strongly and upset someone or something. The wind almost blew us over. The tornado blew the shed over.
  See also: blow
• do justice to sb/sth
  (also do sb/sth justice)
  C2 to ​treat someone or something in a way that is ​fair and ​shows ​their or ​its ​true ​qualities:
  This ​postcard doesn't do justice to the ​wonderful ​scenery.
• in addition
  Also; as well.
  in addition to
  Over and above; besides.
• start someone over
  to cause someone to begin again; to lead someone to begin again. The orchestra messed up the first few bars, so the conductor started them over again. I hope the conductor doesn't start us over again. This is getting boring to play.
  See also: start
  start over
  to begin again. I have messed this up so much that there is nothing to do now but start over. When you start over, try to do it right this time.