VOCABULARY Focus

• Peek-a-boo!
• You got it!
• plums and prunes
• cinnamon
• To be the black sheep of the family
• To be at the bottom of something: to be the real cause of something. Example: The desire for money is at the bottom of much of the violence in the world.
• bottom of the barrel and bottom of the heap
  Fig. the location of persons or things of the very lowest quality; someone or something of the lowest quality. (The fruit at the bottom of a barrel of apples is likely to be bruised from the weight of the other apples.) That last secretary you sent me was really the bottom of the barrel.