Slang idioms

He decided to buy the guitar even though he was kind of broke. At the price it was listed for, it was a ......

He knew that he had been hired to do the ..... work, but this did not bother him.

"I could give up my TV and my bicycle but I couldn't do ..... my guitar," John told Wesley.

"You just heard that our office might be closing too? I got ..... of that at lunch. I hope our manager can tell us what's going on," Pam worriedly told Jake.

He knew that he would get a raise. He had a reputation as a .....-hitting salesman and he had been at the company long enough to achieve seniority.

He didn't think that it would take as much time to ..... out the rations to the troops and now they were late for the planned exercises. This didn't bode well since the Brigade Commander was out to inspect his leadership and his troops.

"Don't do me any favors. I know that whatever you do now, you'll throw in my ..... later and try to make an advantage of it," Christian said to Lisa.

"I hate walking on plywood, but I'm stone-..... at the moment. As soon as I get paid, I'm going to buy some carpet," Matt told Paul.

I really like my brother-in-law because he's so laid-back.

I'm so tired. I have to rack out for a while.