There are a lot of questions here. Personally, I'd just ask one or two so you don't exhaust people who answer. Here goes. 1. I haven't seen "slick" used to mean sneaky. 2. Saying "you're just like your dad" is very common. Adding the nuance that this is yet another way in which he's like his dad seems like a really uncommon thing to want to say. But if you wanted to add that nuance you might say "You're just like your dad in that way, too." 3. "Have our trip be ruined" is a very common speech pattern, and it's just a way of saying it passively. Think of it as meaning "have our trip be ruined for us". That captures the passivity better. 4."try to be slick/clever", see 1. 5. Get burned means to in some way be injured or harmed. It's using the literal injury of burning in a metaphorical sense. For example if my hotel is cheap because it's in a high-crime neighborhood and/or the hotel has no security, and I have my belongings stolen as a result then I got burned. In fact I burned myself by making a poor choice. 6. "Hotel arrangements" means the arrangements you've made for your accommodations.