1. You're doing a good job, Todd. You've made some minor mistakes, but don't .......... the small stuff, his boss said.

2. You know he's going to try to take advantage of you. Don't take any .......... nickels, Jane --- we didn't raise a fool, her father said.

3. That's just throwing stones when you live in a .......... house! You complain that she lies, but you've lied yourself to almost everyone here! his assistant said.

4. It was going fine and everyone was having fun until my alcoholic sister .......... . the party and started a fight with one of my co-workers.

5. Don't upset the .......... The receiving department's procedures have always worked quite well. If you try to change how they do things, you'll just mess it up, Jeannie told Kurt.

6. I hate it when people wash their dirty .......... in public. I don't want to hear who or who slept with John. I don't want to hear any of their personal business! Elise said to Pauline.

7. He was sick of people telling the same old joke at work. The joke had been done to .......... and hadn't been that funny in the first place.

8. She knew it would take .......... 's years for her boss to retire. She wished he would move or quit.

9. You Harvard graduates are the .......... of the crop, the job interviewer told Jessie.

10. He told his grandfather that he had improved his school grades from a C to an A average, and his grandpa replied, " See? I told you .......... always rises to the surface."