But Laura's inventing days were over just as Yoyo's were starting up with her school-wide success. Rather than the rolling suitcase everyone else in the family remembers, Yoyo thinks of the speech her mother wrote as her last invention. It was as if, after that, her mother had passed on to Yoyo her pencil and pad and said, "Okay, Cuquita, here's the buck. You give it a shot."
Which context clue provides the best hint for the meaning of the underlined idiom in this excerpt?
The context clue that provides the best hint for the meaning of the underlined idiom "here's the buck" is "Yoyo thinks of the speech her mother wrote as her last invention."
The underlined idiom in this excerpt is "give it a shot." The context clue that provides the best hint for its meaning is "her mother had passed on to Yoyo her pencil and pad." This suggests that Yoyo's mother has given Yoyo the tools she needs to try something and implies that "give it a shot" means to attempt or try something.
The underlined idiom in this excerpt is "give it a shot." To determine the meaning of this idiom, we can look for context clues. In this case, the context clue that provides the best hint for the meaning of the idiom is "her mother had passed on to Yoyo her pencil and pad." This clue suggests that Yoyo's mother passed on something to Yoyo and encouraged her to try it or give it a try. Therefore, based on this context clue, we can infer that the idiom "give it a shot" means to try something.
