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BOFA

Per August99's suggestion, I am now putting all in one thread for easy tracing.
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- v$ g, r4 Y9 {, VStick-in-the-mud
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) s- U  u5 `# C8 ^7 f) A  JMeaning: 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.

  |! n5 \, O" F4 S: [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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  W& A5 ]$ s# x$ D/ ~+ U  ^Example:
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When Zora visits, she pours out her soul to me about her lover.

BOFA

<font bold>Odds and Ends</font>

# ]& B" r- y( Z4 @5 T, o( pMeaning: 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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, e$ ^/ B3 g" J4 y- MMeaning: 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

Meaning:
吃亏
English: The worst job, the least pay, also Dump on

/ X" K& q: V# C9 H) UExample:
* r* v8 A; S) b, k6 Q) M* oI 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.

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BOFA

This issue is about how we laugh.

  o6 U+ l: H: ]* B/ A$ M9 j) G  e1. Laugh up your sleeve
& }" ^& V  `  Y6 y. T' h    Meaning: laugh secretly at someone, behind your back.
" Y. L& A# W/ D& `6 K; c% \    在背后偷偷笑 (我想应该是不怀好意吧）

2 }4 f8 t& {5 T9 |" Z2. Laugh your head off

3. Laugh yourself sick
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4. Laugh yourself silly
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) K( Q& `" f" C4 [9 W5 LItem 2-4 all mean that you laugh so hard, so long, that you feel ache, "sick", or....

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.

) T4 Q, B, F/ q6 G/ D; c2 J" J5 T& QFollow Suit

& c5 V" y7 s. U& ~+ w! JMeaning: (in Bridge, cards,....games) play the same suit. Generally, take the same action.

BOFA

You 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)

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
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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)

: z2 M( R# i( m. gNow you make a sentence out of it.

You really have me there, Bofa.
You 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>
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: B9 U. n, k' r4 |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。。
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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:

7 R. [, S6 o" x$ Umakes the ball backspin in pool game

BOFA

A Penny for your thoughts

Mhhh. Is the person wanting to buy some ideas from someone else? Surely not.
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3 J$ [: U% v% P; t7 ?0 j, LIt means "What are you thinking about?" "What is in your mind" (why you are staring at the ceiling and wordless......."

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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。
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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.

Check the dictionary and it means:
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Very 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.

Meaning: what is upset  you? What's going on? What happens to you?
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0 D8 @7 a& _, ^+ s1 q( ?% Y0 e$ R( n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

6 }. H( W, _+ y* ]8 H  M) oMeaning: things are getting better, espcially illness and bad mood.

( s2 N) t" E( \8 |: fOnline Dicationary explains as follows:
10. 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.  
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/on%20the%20mend


+ x6 o2 I( X: F, aI 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.