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Why can’t it be “tu as l’odeur du pain” ?

I've been taught this phrase in another course but never really understood its use -  ça y est. It was presented to me as one of those catchall phrases for "yes, that's right!", "yeah, that's it" as a somewhat utterance one makes to ones self (or to others) that you've been suddenly successful at something or an acknowledgment that you're at least on the right track. So I used this here instead of "c'est ça". Did I use it correctly? I actually had "c'est ça" first but then I changed it to see if I had actually finally found a way to use "ça y est" correctly.

(By the way, why can't I use the hold down the keyboard trick to apply accents, etc in this Q & A box? I have to admit it prevents me oftentimes from asking questions since I can't be precise.)

J’ai traduit le mot, ’squint’, par ’loucher’ au lieu de ’plisser les yeux’.  Le dictionnaire cite tous les deux comme acceptable, mais l’exercice accepte seulement le deuxième.   Pourquoi ? 

Why is it c'est here and not il?
Tu aimes le violet ? Oui, c'est très joli! 

Can I say "en profiter le plus" for "make the most of it", instead of "en profiter au maximum"?

I’m sure the speed was intentional, but it was a difficult listen! I still can’t catch the de in "prendre de tes nouvelles" (tho knew it ought to be there) nor the dès in the last sentence.

A male sheep is called a ram in English and I thought a male sheep in French was a bélier? Is it that people in France call male sheep "mouton"?

Thanks for clearing this up because I was a little confused...