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kjc0123 | 07:12 Thu 19th May 2005 | Phrases & Sayings
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What is the meaning of "train him and all", "croak" in the following sentences?

Ray laughed louder. He could not, at that moment, ever remember having a talk about sex and money with a seventy-year-old woman. He got the impression she had plenty of stories. Claudia's greatest hits. 
"You're looking good, Claudia, you have time for another one." 
"I'm tired, Ray. Old and tired. I'd have to train him and all. It's not worth it." 
"What happened to number two?" 
"He croaked with a heart attack and I didn't even find a thousand dollars," she said.

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"train him and all" meaning teach him how to do it etc

"He croaked with a heart attack" meaning he died from a heat attacked.

the first part suggests that the person or animal he / she is refering to will have to be trained as well as other things he / she will have to be taught. To croak  refers to dying
The phrase "train him and all" has been well explained.  The following gives the origin of croak (v.) 
c.1460, crouken, onomatopoeic or related to O.E. cracian (see crack). Slang meaning "to die" is first recorded 1812, from sound of death rattle. Croaker "prophet of evil" (1637) is from the raven (cf. M.E. crake "a raven," c.1320, from O.N. kraka "crow," of imitative origin). From On-line Etymology...

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