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BOFA

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

. l8 L8 w. S  K* vI remember there is a song having such a line.

[ 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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8 q: s5 @: n" B% I2 P& i' UMeaning: Tell your private feelings, tell all.
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When Zora visits, she pours out her soul to me about her lover.

BOFA

<font bold>Odds and Ends</font>
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* s# N5 E- j" e. ?$ @Meaning: Small pieces that are not used, loose ends.
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& \& q# F  L- ^+ H1 y8 }. b; M& QExample: 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

Meaning: Tendency to think about only one subject

  o' V6 C( |# }: PMy son has a one -track mind these days. He thinks only about cars.


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august99

The short end of the stick

Meaning:
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5 I3 M5 p" W6 b6 i: gEnglish: The worst job, the least pay, also Dump on
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Example:
I work with Ken, I always get the short end of the stick. He gives me the hard jobs

BOFA

Lay a Trip

& G2 g& T* Y8 v' H9 |, y# QMeaning: 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。
  F( E& x2 r9 A$ vExample: Don't lay a trip on me about low grades. I am studying hard.
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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 D9 p# [# d- W' y, u1. 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）

2. Laugh your head off
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3. Laugh yourself sick
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4. Laugh yourself silly
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  G) L( P' I1 u& o) kItem 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.

Follow Suit

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

BOFA

You Have Me There
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# M! g9 L$ |' v"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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( }. C2 d5 g4 [0 y3 fNow 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
: X5 x8 x1 m+ lYou Have Me There
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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.

" U/ [! U* e/ ^You really have me there, Bofa.
. \) Y( X& n: Y7 D0 w& [, U( yYou got me.

xb.su

精品中年老男人

GOOD!!

Some more?

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billzhao

goood, go on

BOFA

<P><font color="Red"><b>When the chips are down</b></font></p>
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6 u& A" W% x# eMeaning: 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。
, c9 K% X- ^, Y$ ~+ y         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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" i* S& A1 E8 z- m<p> <font color="Red"><b> A chip off the old black</b></font></p>

' r2 \0 a% r& R% M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:

7 z7 ^6 C$ U8 Mmakes the ball backspin in pool game

BOFA

A Penny for your thoughts
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Mhhh. Is the person wanting to buy some ideas from someone else? Surely not.
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It means "What are you thinking about?" "What is in your mind" (why you are staring at the ceiling and wordless......."

. Z! |- Q, N: }, \8 V* z9 ^5 |but cautious when use. It should only use between close friends or family members.....

BOFA

Today's sharing is
# ?+ K) y9 w+ h9 H0 f  "By the seat of one's pants"
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Meaning: 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。

3 }5 g/ R7 [! G  l8 K+ w3 x1 XTry 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.

9 M2 T# t: [& u# h9 n7 t+ E9 DCheck the dictionary and it means:
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4 q) z' k; K) K! f6 ~" GVery interested in..... or feel suspense in a (story ect. ).
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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

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/ U* O1 m; _, _8 u; DOnline Dicationary explains as follows:
10. on the mend, a. recovering from an illness.  
! e* t2 C5 P/ V" t+ G. Gb. improving in general, as a state of affairs: The breach between father and son is on the mend.  
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, J  s3 u& c' f3 z1 EI 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.