how to understand “ I assumed I’d gone down in her estimation now both my sons have dropped out ”？
“I assumed I’d gone down in her estimation now both my sons have dropped out. But I miss her company. We’d have been out there having a fag on the pavement once upon a time.’
is having a fag meaning smoke？“dropped out” meaning be out of school？how tounderstand “gone down”？

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how to understand “ I assumed I’d gone down in her estimation now both my sons have dropped out ”？
“I assumed I’d gone down in her estimation now both my sons have dropped out. But I miss her company. We’d have been out there having a fag on the pavement once upon a time.’
is having a fag meaning smoke？“dropped out” meaning be out of school？how tounderstand “gone down”？

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Yes your right. Theres a lot of local language in this sentence so it is a little difficult. But 'having a fag' means smoke, 'drop out' usually means drop out of school and going down or 'gone down in her estimation' is reduce or drop in estimation

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“I assumed I’d gone down in her estimation now both my sons have dropped out. But I miss her company. We’d have been out there having a fag on the pavement once upon a time."
Having a fag is slang and does mean smoking. Dropped out is also an expression which means leaving schooling. “Gone down" means declined. 'She' - the third party- supposedly had a lower amount of respect for the narrator afterwards. This is purely the narrators opinion, not a fact.

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