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BOFA

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

Stick-in-the-mud
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1 m0 R. m" x; S; g! CMeaning: refer to a person who doesn't go out, also Party-Pooper
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2 C8 ?0 J! w3 {  K' B2 IExample: Farley, that stick-in-the-mud. He never go to parties.

8 q8 c4 h$ `& G" ]1 M0 L$ _! YI 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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" U- b# B, r2 g0 q0 E7 h% FWhen Zora visits, she pours out her soul to me about her lover.

BOFA

<font bold>Odds and Ends</font>

8 K! F& T& O: mMeaning: 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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Meaning: Tendency to think about only one subject
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1 R$ H& F' u" v1 e* ZMy son has a one -track mind these days. He thinks only about cars.



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august99

The short end of the stick

) N+ F- `2 T* A& x1 U+ T7 KMeaning:
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0 I! X4 B. g" `4 t5 Y" PEnglish: The worst job, the least pay, also Dump on
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/ n! {2 I3 Y' G8 w3 P5 rExample:
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.

; Z( y3 J2 R. B/ s' H( e" _  c+ W! e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.

1. Laugh up your sleeve
    Meaning: laugh secretly at someone, behind your back.
    在背后偷偷笑 (我想应该是不怀好意吧）
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6 u/ i, ?3 Y6 q1 g7 \9 L; ~2. Laugh your head off
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3. Laugh yourself sick

4. Laugh yourself silly
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, C' v/ y2 Y9 z% S5 u7 T% lItem 2-4 all mean that you laugh so hard, so long, that you feel ache, "sick", or....

) @3 t7 U  h- k5 ~! p, x) C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.

  _; x8 b% \3 U$ ]+ tFollow Suit

Meaning: (in Bridge, cards,....games) play the same suit. Generally, take the same action.

BOFA

You Have Me There
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3 r* d6 \3 G: L" X+ n"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
You Have Me There

5 z( M% e; Y5 }"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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/ e+ h% A. F' pNow you make a sentence out of it.

3 x' m3 w4 {$ O4 x2 J5 Q$ r  i( oYou really have me there, Bofa.
6 _3 f; w$ m& B' @1 ?: \; O# }You got me.

xb.su

精品中年老男人

GOOD!!
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Some more?

Thanks for sharing!!

billzhao

goood, go on

BOFA

<P><font color="Red"><b>When the chips are down</b></font></p>
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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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: P1 ^+ ]1 @3 ^" e. j. q) {<p> <font color="Red"><b> A chip off the old black</b></font></p>

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

0 j6 J" Q9 {9 d7 j# L; R; bMhhh. Is the person wanting to buy some ideas from someone else? Surely not.
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* p, z/ y( X" Z* wIt means "What are you thinking about?" "What is in your mind" (why you are staring at the ceiling and wordless......."
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but cautious when use. It should only use between close friends or family members.....

BOFA

Today's sharing is
0 `1 }% ?' n# c' b# N5 `: q- y  "By the seat of one's pants"
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& k# m7 N. \, i8 e+ Y5 NMeaning: 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。

Try to use it tomorrow and you'll remember it forever.
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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.

" g2 [: b4 ?0 W* MCheck the dictionary and it means:
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% J+ b6 u/ b( @0 hVery interested in..... or feel suspense in a (story ect. ).

1 j' j9 d- H$ z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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3 j- c* a+ F4 S5 p. FMeaning: what is upset  you? What's going on? What happens to you?

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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# }- x) d+ w) m6 ^' z: L7 V8 H- y0 CMeaning: things are getting better, espcially illness and bad mood.

Online Dicationary explains as follows:
10. on the mend, a. recovering from an illness.  
6 Z) p, z- a' Xb. improving in general, as a state of affairs: The breach between father and son is on the mend.  
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/on%20the%20mend
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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.