A person who does not speak a great deal; someone who talks with as few words as possible.

Anything that requires minimal brain activity to accomplish.

It can be challenging to teach a person something new

It can refer to the popular rope pulling game or it can mean a struggle for authority.

To cut the mustard is to meet a required standard, or to meet expectations.

Two things have been completed, but there is one more that has yet to be finished.

To risk it all, even if it means losing everything. To go all out.

Often said by the winner in poker, as the others 'weep' over the loss.

To be left behind; abandoned. Being in a helpless situation without a way to recover.