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Describe Billy, our protagonist's brother, in two words
Cheeky / Bloodsucker / Parasite / Hanger-on / Leech / Sponger
What do our protagonist's family keep asking him for?
Money
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?
The car going very fast / The speed the car was going at
Billy tells his brother he won't be out of the woods unless he's lent some money. What does that phrase mean? "not be out of the woods"
Not yet free from difficulties or problems
If you get yourself all psyched up for something difficult, you _______________________________________________
prepare yourself mentally for it
Do you remember what our protagonist dreams about in the story?
His dad giving him a ride on his shoulders and being an elephant / Himself and his former wife being happy together
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
I'd get fed up = would = used to = past simple (got fed up)
If something costs you an arm and a leg, it costs you _____________________________
a lot of money
If you can stand on your own two feet, you are __________________________________________
independent and able to take care of yourself
Billy says that he has several irons in the fire when talking about his plans and life in general. What does he mean?
He's involved in several activities, hoping that at least one will be successful
If you keep your nose to the grindstone, you _______________________________________
work hard for a long period of time without stopping
The saying It never rains but it pours / When it rains, it pours means ____________________________________
when one bad thing happens to you, other bad things happen soon after
In the story, we learn about the IRS in the US, which is the government department responsible for _________________________________
collecting most national taxes, for example income tax (Inland Revenue Service)
The protagonist's brother, Billy, says he's a goner. What does he mean?
Someone who cannot be saved from a difficult situation
If you shell out for something, do we talk about little or big money?
Pay a lot of money for something
If you stiff somebody, you ______________________________________ (has to do with money)
cheat them or not pay them what you owe them
If you do something (come) rain or shine, you do it ____________________________
whatever happens
If a business goes belly up, it _______________________
fails completely
You would pawn something when you need______________________
money
If you lay off your employees, you__________________________
make them redundant / fire them / dismiss them / let them go
Complete with the right preposition: Trust me __________ this
on
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