Answer:
His speech and diction were plain, terse, forcible.
Can you please take my cat to my cousins for me please?
Answer:
on a shoestring. With very limited financial means, as in The newlyweds were living on a shoestring. The precise allusion in this term is unclear. One fanciful theory is that debtors in British prisons would lower a shoe by its laces from a window so as to collect funds from visitors or passers-by.
Explanation: