Rewrite the following sentences using words/expressions from the text (found in the box below), replacing the underlined phrases and keeping the same meaning.
1. By the time the girls were old enough to go to school, they had become too big for their uniforms.
2. The neighbors were constantly laughing behind the back of any newcomer.
3. The kids made fun of their teacher’s clothes, when they first met him.
4. Dad used to advise us to agree with the opinion of the majority, in order to stay away from trouble.
5. He was terribly selfish and learned how to care about nobody else.