very bluntly, point-blank, directly, all of a sudden, suddenly

(figuratively) losing momentum, losing steam, losing speed

(informal) lousy, shit, shitty, crappy (completely worthless)

(idiomatic) appetite comes with eating

(figuratively) a hawknose

(informal) to have seen it all before, to have survived worse

(informal) to bend over backwards

(informal) to let someone guess (used to dramatise something unsurprising.)

from end to end, right through, through and through

(informal) to overdo it, to go over the top, to go overboard, to blow things out of proportion