read the excerpt from \daughter of invention\. but lauras inventing days were over just as yoyos were…

read the excerpt from \daughter of invention\. but lauras inventing days were over just as yoyos 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, heres the buck. you give it a shot.\ which context clue provides the best hint for the meaning of the underlined idiom in this excerpt? but lauras inventing days were over the rolling suitcase everyone else in the family remembers yoyo thinks of the speech her mother wrote as her last invention after that, her mother had passed on to yoyo her pencil and pad

read the excerpt from \daughter of invention\. but lauras inventing days were over just as yoyos 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, heres the buck. you give it a shot.\ which context clue provides the best hint for the meaning of the underlined idiom in this excerpt? but lauras inventing days were over the rolling suitcase everyone else in the family remembers yoyo thinks of the speech her mother wrote as her last invention after that, her mother had passed on to yoyo her pencil and pad

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Brief Explanations:

The idiom "give it a shot" means to try something. The context - clue "after that, her mother had passed on to Yoyo her pencil and pad" implies that the mother is giving Yoyo the tools and the opportunity to try inventing or writing, similar to passing on the 'buck' (responsibility) to give it a try.

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D. after that, her mother had passed on to Yoyo her pencil and pad