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BOFA

Per August99's suggestion, I am now putting all in one thread for easy tracing.

Stick-in-the-mud

Meaning: refer to a person who doesn't go out, also Party-Pooper
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( E4 x! u% d1 @1 O2 XExample: Farley, that stick-in-the-mud. He never go to parties.

I remember there is a song having such a line.
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BOFA

Pour out your soul
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Meaning: Tell your private feelings, tell all.
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Example:

When Zora visits, she pours out her soul to me about her lover.

BOFA

<font bold>Odds and Ends</font>
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Meaning: Small pieces that are not used, loose ends.

Example: When you build the fence, save the odds and ends to make toys.

munkkie9909

you've got a major typo in the name of the thread

august99

One-Track
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, B4 s" x8 H1 g1 UMeaning: Tendency to think about only one subject
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( e# n1 B: c2 a9 sMy son has a one -track mind these days. He thinks only about cars.
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august99

The short end of the stick

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. g) O* f7 r1 c( AEnglish: The worst job, the least pay, also Dump on
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$ v2 [) i. d, B0 `, e8 r3 cExample:
I work with Ken, I always get the short end of the stick. He gives me the hard jobs

BOFA

Lay a Trip
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Meaning: suggest guilt or blame or duty。 也就是我们经常说的"不要让我有内疚感，负罪感“的意思。
Example: Don't lay a trip on me about low grades. I am studying hard.

非常好的一个习惯表达法。我们以后要用噢。

BOFA

This issue is about how we laugh.
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1. Laugh up your sleeve
  d/ }# y( `' v& `) w    Meaning: laugh secretly at someone, behind your back.
- ~5 E9 ?; _- W    在背后偷偷笑 (我想应该是不怀好意吧）

2. Laugh your head off

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( l, M8 o7 y7 X- E! J' v/ L4. Laugh yourself silly

Item 2-4 all mean that you laugh so hard, so long, that you feel ache, "sick", or....
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下次我们该知道如何说我笑破肚皮了。

BOFA

I Stepped into the Bookstore today, flipping over an Oxford Dictionary of Idioms, and spotted these. I heard of this on the movie last night too.

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# y6 N8 o- V$ R; bMeaning: (in Bridge, cards,....games) play the same suit. Generally, take the same action.

BOFA

You Have Me There

"你把我问住了, 我无法回答“， ”在这点上你把我抓住了"= I don't know (but i am supposed to know)

Now you make a sentence out of it.

阿虎

yo bofa, you are the man !!

xb.su

原帖由 BOFA 于 2008-7-31 22:34 发表
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"你把我问住了, 我无法回答“， ”在这点上你把我抓住了"= I don't know (but i am supposed to know)
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Now you make a sentence out of it.

You really have me there, Bofa.
  Q, k1 g; C- c1 C: q* y  {; wYou got me.

xb.su

精品中年老男人

GOOD!!

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billzhao

goood, go on

BOFA

<P><font color="Red"><b>When the chips are down</b></font></p>

Meaning: When it is time to make a right decision, or have to win. 在非常关键的时刻，一旦作出决定，成败在此一举。
         来源自扑克牌游戏。Chip是筹码的意思。整体意识是下了赌注，就不能反悔了。。
        =when the situation is urgent.

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+ t4 @( T+ `% q3 n0 ~<p> <font color="Red"><b> A chip off the old black</b></font></p>
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意思很容易理解。 就是旧木块的碎片。。什么意思？？孩子跟他、她爸一个模样

湘沙古人

put english on the ball:

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BOFA

A Penny for your thoughts

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2 P' c( Y& z' G" Q8 r( IIt means "What are you thinking about?" "What is in your mind" (why you are staring at the ceiling and wordless......."
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8 p* a4 q; i" C9 |2 z4 H% Sbut cautious when use. It should only use between close friends or family members.....

BOFA

Today's sharing is
/ Y/ L" g( t+ }! u/ s% d) S; c  "By the seat of one's pants"

2 I0 S  l8 M- e8 xMeaning: based on one's experience, feeling, and sense. depends on one's intuition......凭着经验做。。。。来源于飞行员仪表盘失效后凭屁股的稳定感来驾驶。

: R% O# C& ?4 f6 Q, L$ ?  m; j0 BTry to use it tomorrow and you'll remember it forever.

BOFA

I heard this saying last night in a movie, when one said she had something important to tell the other woman, about her husband's cheating on her. The other woman said this sentence. I  thought she meant to mean that she is so eager to know.

Check the dictionary and it means:

4 \6 s  P/ Y* F- \3 B; Z' U* kVery interested in..... or feel suspense in a (story ect. ).

' P  ]& W- E% J7 p. x* [# l我想下回我们催别人赶紧说的时候，可以用这个表达法了。

BOFA

You can hear this between two close persons when the one being asked seems to show upset, be low, and just be different than usual.

  w& s0 D3 }: q; d# i# A) WMeaning: what is upset  you? What's going on? What happens to you?

0 X! Z7 A7 S$ u$ W' f明天如果见到你的BUDDY情绪低落的话，用这句话试试看。

BOFA

On the Mend
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( _  D+ r4 x6 V0 g1 cMeaning: things are getting better, espcially illness and bad mood.
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Online Dicationary explains as follows:
10. on the mend, a. recovering from an illness.  
9 G5 S  ~- Q- R# e& i' M2 nb. improving in general, as a state of affairs: The breach between father and son is on the mend.  
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I learned this on the cartoon The Simpson's, when Bart faked the sickness to avoid another failuer in his Grade 4 tests that would qualify him for moving foward to Grade 5.