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Q1. I can't recongnize what difference is between head and brain .
Q.2.get a leg up on the competition
Q.3.keep it on the down-low,( It means to do rock band, right?" , please explain what the down-low mean.)
Q.4. kick it into overdrive.

The lines go in the movie, "The School of Rock"
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-I think it's time we started our new class project.
- A science project?
- No. It's called..."Rock Band".
- Is this a school project?
- Yes. And it's a requirement.
It may sound easy, but nothing could be harder.
It will test your head and your mind and your brain too.
- Will other schools be competing?
- You could say that.
You could say that every school in the state will be competing for the top prize.
- What's the prize?
- A win will go on your permanent record.
Hello, Harvard,yo.
The thing is We're not supposed to get started until next quarter,
but I think we should get a leg up on the competition, don't you?
- I do.
- Who else wants to go for the gold?

- I do. All right. But if anyone finds out we’ll do in here
we'll be disqualified.
So let's just keep it on the down-low, shall we?
- Can we tell our parents?
- No! Just trust me.
They don't want to know. Keep it zipped.
All right, you guys, let's kick it into overdrive.

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One more thing.

Please correct my sentences for my better English composition.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

It sounds like these people are kidding around:

"I think it's time we started our new class project."
"A science project?" (The people who are talking here are not the type of students who would be enthusiastic about a science project, so for the person to answer, "A science project?", is ridiculous.)
"No. It's called....'Rock Band." (Again, this is ridiculous. Starting a rock band would never be a school project.)
"Is this a school project?"
"Yes. And it's a requirement." (More ridiculous talk.)
"It may sound easy, but nothing could be harder." (He's ridiculing real school projects, like science projects, which are hard.)
"It will test your head and your mind and your brain too." (More ridiculing of real school projects, which challenge the mind. By unnecessarily using three words for mind - mind, head, and brain - he's emphasizing how much contempt he has for real school projects.)
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"Hello, Harvard, yo." (None of these students are going to get into Harvard, so this is ridiculous.)
"The thing is we're not supposed to get started until next quarter,
but I think we should get a leg up on the competition..." (Again, more ridicule of real school projects. "Get a leg up on the competition" means to get a head start or to begin before the others you're competing against do. But this is not a real school project, so he's just ridiculing real school projects. He simply wants to start a rock band immediately.)
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"But if anyone finds out what we're doing here we'll be disqualified." (More ridiculous talk. They can't be disqualified because there is no real completion, like in real school science projects.)
"So let's just keep it on the down-low, shall we?" (That is, let's keep this rock band we're starting a secret. "On the down-low" means to keep it quiet, like when you turn the volume on a stereo down low.)
"Can we tell our parents?" (Parents don't like their kids starting rock bands.)
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"All right, you guys, let's kick it into overdrive." (This is, let's start this rock band quickly. "Kick it into overdrive" means to accelerate the pace of what you're doing - like putting a car into overdrive, which means you're going real fast.)

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