Fill the gap
"Higher prices ___ up our profits this year."
drove
"Prices drove up."
"Prices drove up profits", drove up needs an object
"spring / on / rainy / weighed / the / production"
"The rainy spring weighed on production."
"It means: X makes a number go up."
drive up
"It means to concede — to stop resisting and accept it."
to give in
"The rainy spring ___ on our solar production."
weighed
"The spring weighed the production on."
"The spring weighed on the production."(weigh on is not separable)
"drove / prices / up / higher / profits"
"Higher prices drove up profits."
"It means: X drags a number down, slowly and steadily."
"It means to postpone — to move something to a later time."
to put off
"The key ___ behind this are prices and wind."
drivers
"This needs to be viewed in context of the closures."
"in THE context of (add the)"
grew / performance / percent / underlying / seven
Underlying performance grew seven percent.
"It means: the real business behind the one-off costs."
"underlying performance"
"It means to investigate — to find out more about something."
to look into
"Profit fell, but ___ performance grew seven percent."
underlying
"The bottom line are the closures."
"The bottom line IS the closures."
"needs / this / the / viewed / in / to / context / of / be / closures"
"This needs to be viewed in the context of closures."
"You say it when you want ONE sentence to be the only thing they remember." → "the bottom line"
"the bottom line"
"It means to exclude something as a possibility — to say it can't happen."
to rule out