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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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Example: Farley, that stick-in-the-mud. He never go to parties.
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I remember there is a song having such a line.
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[ 本帖最后由 豆腐温柔 于 2008-7-30 12:28 编辑 ]

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>

Meaning: Small pieces that are not used, loose ends.
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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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Meaning: Tendency to think about only one subject

My 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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* C! Z) R$ f3 W# R3 {+ W) l7 QEnglish: The worst job, the least pay, also Dump on

Example:
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。
% i% u* H2 b/ PExample: Don't lay a trip on me about low grades. I am studying hard.

7 \: U+ N- Y1 y% h2 s  E% |4 _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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5 e' y2 x, u# T% ]: \1. Laugh up your sleeve
    Meaning: laugh secretly at someone, behind your back.
1 H& w$ {! C# ]# g0 n    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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4. Laugh yourself silly
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Item 2-4 all mean that you laugh so hard, so long, that you feel ache, "sick", or....

; p" @/ |- L, O. q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.

3 E+ m' m, S( [& E9 GFollow Suit

# X/ P3 U2 |; a8 OMeaning: (in Bridge, cards,....games) play the same suit. Generally, take the same action.

BOFA

You Have Me There
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. v- R7 w' f: p3 D4 J, \; S"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
6 E& J9 h( a' s6 T, ?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)
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Now you make a sentence out of it.

- O) E  |1 b! r2 \2 V; U) m! iYou really have me there, Bofa.
You got me.

xb.su

精品中年老男人

GOOD!!
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Thanks for sharing!!

billzhao

goood, go on

BOFA

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

- c) m* _' J1 O8 j/ P6 ~9 r8 lMeaning: 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。。
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<p> <font color="Red"><b> A chip off the old black</b></font></p>

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湘沙古人

put english on the ball:
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( v4 g% `. E8 H3 Smakes the ball backspin in pool game

BOFA

A Penny for your thoughts

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5 ?" Z5 G$ ^# O  FIt means "What are you thinking about?" "What is in your mind" (why you are staring at the ceiling and wordless......."
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6 Q8 k, b: I( F1 Ybut cautious when use. It should only use between close friends or family members.....

BOFA

Today's sharing is
  "By the seat of one's pants"

' x) T" e/ x) L- \2 M9 zMeaning: 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。
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Try 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.

1 ^( n' q3 T) YCheck the dictionary and it means:
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Very interested in..... or feel suspense in a (story ect. ).
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! _6 Z9 t# q: O2 D" b% g" d+ r% 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.
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Meaning: what is upset  you? What's going on? What happens to you?
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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

) Z/ k: l5 C) d; C( z+ l3 h5 W* cMeaning: things are getting better, espcially illness and bad mood.

) N& Q+ ?- L, Y& @9 v2 yOnline Dicationary explains as follows:
9 b& a* `: }( u10. on the mend, a. recovering from an illness.  
b. improving in general, as a state of affairs: The breach between father and son is on the mend.  
8 H4 l/ O9 W) Z4 o$ r/ f) O http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/on%20the%20mend


: y! y- z& e7 Q3 QI 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.