Canadian Slang Share

BOFA

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

' m9 L0 p4 x3 v6 g2 I7 q# \9 rStick-in-the-mud

+ i5 H7 H6 X1 \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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BOFA

Pour out your soul
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3 _& u8 E" `' Y, `6 jMeaning: Tell your private feelings, tell all.

9 X* }* a1 `. {# b0 XExample:

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
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2 I" {8 A3 P% Z4 b4 _: }My son has a one -track mind these days. He thinks only about cars.

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Copied from the original posting by BOFA

august99

The short end of the stick

Meaning:
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English: 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

  e2 K$ U( ^# F7 nMeaning: 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。
; L6 ]: E7 \7 `& y7 \' V+ SExample: Don't lay a trip on me about low grades. I am studying hard.
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7 b4 H* b4 Y) k1 p8 w& c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）

2. Laugh your head off

3. Laugh yourself sick

+ @5 l: r& Z7 @$ n: n4. Laugh yourself silly

Item 2-4 all mean that you laugh so hard, so long, that you feel ache, "sick", or....

/ i" b% ]. F8 k3 H% ]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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Follow Suit

. @6 |" w0 `6 f- V$ j- b- W! h0 Y8 wMeaning: (in Bridge, cards,....games) play the same suit. Generally, take the same action.

BOFA

You Have Me There

5 M1 `, K" i# Z( @0 {7 p1 f) R' @"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.

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

3 c1 i7 p2 e, a* x5 e! U) y"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.

0 H1 C9 ~7 W3 ]# UYou really have me there, Bofa.
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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>
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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。
% k& ?' K( T0 G) E         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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<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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makes the ball backspin in pool game

BOFA

A Penny for your thoughts

: i( Z- y9 U: ?* b& C3 mMhhh. Is the person wanting to buy some ideas from someone else? Surely not.
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" O# u) K) N% V  Y' g2 C' aIt 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
  "By the seat of one's pants"

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。

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.
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* }% c9 _9 s9 v' \' s4 K+ ]- |Check the dictionary and it means:
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' T/ _+ ]$ T' g; L; D2 vVery interested in..... or feel suspense in a (story ect. ).
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5 \& L0 Y! p0 Z# R4 q2 p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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Online Dicationary explains as follows:
* \' ?* m1 U% E' z8 V: E10. 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.  
; y1 |3 M, I. \" p# H9 j8 D1 c http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/on%20the%20mend


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.