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Question 1

Shape up or ship out

Answer 1

used as an ultimatum to someone to improve their performance or behavior or face being made to leave.

Question 2

Costs an arm and a leg

Answer 2

be extremely expensive.

Question 3

rip somebody/something ↔ off

Answer 3

1 to charge someone too much money for something SYN overcharge
The agency really ripped us off.
2 to steal something
Somebody had come in and ripped off the TV and stereo.
3 to take words, ideas etc from someone else’s work and use them in your own work as if they were your own ideas SYN plagiarize

Question 4

crook

Answer 4

WHat are you doing with these crooks?

Question 5

facade

Answer 5

The other option is to toughen up, put up this facade.

Question 6

wayward

Answer 6

I was some wahyward orphan.

Question 7

run-in

Answer 7

I’ve had run-ins witht he cops in Alexandra.

an argument or disagreement, especially with someone in an official position

Question 8

wrath

Answer 8

I’d been caught many times. caught and subjected to my mohter’s wrath.

Question 9

dick

Answer 9

cops are dicks for the most part.

2 spoken not polite an offensive word for a stupid annoying person, especially a man

Question 10

impound

Answer 10

He took me in and the car was impounded.

if the police or law courts impound something you have or own, they keep it until it has been decided that you can have it back SYN confiscate