Question

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

Explanation:

The idiom "here's the buck" implies a transfer of responsibility. The context clue "after that, her mother had passed on to Yoyo her pencil and pad" shows a transfer (passing on tools for inventing/writing, symbolizing responsibility transfer).

Answer:

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