EffortllessEnglishDRAGVOCABULARY High price means cost a lot And their Mom is helping the business ,but her salary ,the money they pay their Mom is drag on the business A drag means you hurt something ,or you slow something or cost a problem for something For example : Mom is a drag on the business means Mom is carring a problem for the business ,she slowing the business.In this story ,she is carring a problem for the business ,she falling the business down Ok ,let’s start the letter 20 year ago , my sister and I bough a business from our mother It was a Mom’s business Later,she sold the business to her daughter So now ,the daughter own the business.Their Mom is not the owner now She was in the past ,but now ,her daughter own the business and they love their Mom and their Mom love them … • “pay-off means “finish paying” • “Draw” means “take” or “to take” You know the meaning of “draw” ,”drawing with the pencil” But here ,draw meaning diffirent It mean “take” Mom still take a salary • “Salary” means “your payment every month” She draw the salary ,so sister still pay her they pay her to buy the business ,they also pay her a salary Like an employed May be $10 per hour ,they pay their Mom for doing work And they pay mom two diffirent things • “Above and beyond” means “more than” ,or “also” or “an addition to” or “plus” • “Lessen” means “getting smaller” Her workload is getting smaller • “Workload” means “how much what you do” If you have a heavy workload ,then you are very busy at work.You have a lot work to If you have a light workload , it’s easy job Lessen means make smaller • “Retired” means “stop working” Mom said : “No no, I will go crazy ,I don’t want to work less, I want to come every day” They say she could still come in to the office as often as she want She could come every day and her personal paper work,these are all thing she does at work –on the clock • “On the clock” means “when you are working ,during work time” They paying Mom but Mom doesn’t help them with business,she writing letter to her friend,reading book She not doing work.But she want the daughter to continue paying her So,it’s problem If we try to discuss this ,Mom get hurt when they tell Mom : “ Mom ,you costing money ,but you are not working” Mom get hurt and say : “ Just let me know when I’m not worth the money” We hope she would see the fairness of this and suggesst it herself They don’t want to fighter Mom ,they don’t want to make her quit She hope Mom will understand by herself (Last paragraph ), “business expenses are going though the roof ” • Expenses means “cost” ,money you payout Opposite of “income” “Income” means money “coming in” ,”expenses” means money coming out So the business expenses cost are going through the roof • “Going through the roof” means “going up very fast”, cost are increasing So,they are lossing a lot money There are update we should make • “Update” means “improvement” They need improve the business and make it better While we are paying Mom at the level we are ,so they can’t continue to pay Mom for time Because ,the business is losing money ,they can’t pay her that on the top of the money for the buy out • “On top of” means “also”, “in addition to” ,or “ above and beyond” or “plus”,they both a same thing • “Buy out” means you buy a business from someone else they buy a They are buying the business from their Mom ,so they say it is too expensive ,we must pay Mom to buy buy the business ,plus we must pay her salary every hour There are too much ... fighter Mom ,they don’t want to make her quit She hope Mom will understand by herself (Last paragraph ), “business expenses are going though the roof ” • Expenses means “cost” ,money you payout