If you shell out for something, do we talk about little or big money?

Describe Billy, our protagonist's brother, in two words

If you can stand on your own two feet, you are __________________________________________

If you stiff somebody, you ______________________________________ (has to do with money)

If you lay off your employees, you__________________________

If something costs you an arm and a leg, it costs you _____________________________

By the end of the story, a certain sort of vocabulary is used when describing the two friends travelling in a car: crank it up, have it floored, streak down the mountain, go flat out. What do these phrases refer to?

You would pawn something when you need______________________

If you do something (come) rain or shine, you do it ____________________________

The protagonist in Elephant says, "Once in a while I'd get fed up with it all." Give an alternative for the verb form used there

If you get yourself all psyched up for something difficult, you _______________________________________________

Complete with the right preposition: Trust me __________ this