Questions(vocabulary) Hi, there Could you help me with three questions? 1) Let us say your friend is trying to get you to pay for his part at the restaurant, but he ends up paying for yours instead.

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Questions(vocabulary) Hi, there Could you help me with three questions? 1) Let us say your friend is trying to get you to pay for his part at the restaurant, but he ends up paying for yours instead. Could you say, in a joking way, "He got screwed" or "He ended up on the short end of the stick" or "He came off worse." What could you say to mean that his plan backfired and such. ? 2) Let us say you want to ask your child(inside the bathroom) if he/she could pass feces urine, , so you knock on the door and you say or "Could you go?".. "Are you going?" What could you ask? 3) Does it sound odd to say "Here are some tips for you to save/make time on the SAT hard questions."? Thank you very much!!!!

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For number 1) you could saying "he got screwed" is perfectly fine. You could say "He got the short end of the stick" if you just wanted to imply that he had to pay for it all instead of paying half or not at all, but that saying is more for when the situation is out of anyone's control and they weren't trying to do something sneaky. "He came off worse" does mean that he got the worst half of the deal, but it's just not a saying that a native speaker would use in this situation 2) Either one works, it just depends on how specific you want to be. If they've been in the bathroom for 20 minutes, then "Could you go" would be better 3) "Here's some tips for you to save time on the SAT's hard questions"

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