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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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, y5 ~/ g8 M) d" KMeaning: refer to a person who doesn't go out, also Party-Pooper
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( Q) W8 ]5 Q% @+ ]5 C  `Example: Farley, that stick-in-the-mud. He never go to parties.
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. ]! N  l% p* fI 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

4 N: G) J5 v; w0 _Meaning: Tell your private feelings, tell all.
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4 c- t% T7 v; f3 I5 `4 ~Example:
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: Y+ r. z7 ?; N2 k# g! oWhen Zora visits, she pours out her soul to me about her lover.

BOFA

<font bold>Odds and Ends</font>
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Meaning: Small pieces that are not used, loose ends.
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% \8 w' g2 s, @/ a! ~  uExample: 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

$ Y) t. f* h5 S3 GMeaning: 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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Copied from the original posting by BOFA

august99

The short end of the stick
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2 ?! S' ^, O) b6 U: HMeaning:
吃亏
English: The worst job, the least pay, also Dump on
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5 T: j+ d+ ?& k4 bExample:
I work with Ken, I always get the short end of the stick. He gives me the hard jobs

BOFA

Lay a Trip

; d( T( Q7 k: L0 V) mMeaning: 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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+ B! `# w8 H  r$ C0 A4 n3 ^1 N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.

, Y/ N" m; B0 ~3 U" Q* [5 I1. Laugh up your sleeve
% F, [7 j6 J) {  u# V& P) L5 E    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 i+ F+ w2 P3 S, t& f! Z( G4. Laugh yourself silly

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

3 }' q3 g$ C$ ?7 s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

# ~. B* ^( B6 v- c. [% AMeaning: (in Bridge, cards,....games) play the same suit. Generally, take the same action.

BOFA

You Have Me There

8 U( f7 p/ g8 n0 u"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
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/ l/ S- d0 h9 [5 d8 `0 }"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.

8 ^$ l7 U4 a# Q- `2 ^1 ~8 pYou really have me there, Bofa.
You got me.

xb.su

精品中年老男人

GOOD!!
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Some more?
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. `7 Y6 [. ^& a0 \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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- Y9 k# x+ ?  d! X2 Z* L0 IMeaning: 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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makes the ball backspin in pool game

BOFA

A Penny for your thoughts
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# j" f1 y$ F) vMhhh. Is the person wanting to buy some ideas from someone else? Surely not.
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0 p. r% y5 d/ M# }It means "What are you thinking about?" "What is in your mind" (why you are staring at the ceiling and wordless......."
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; @7 \/ j- G+ wbut cautious when use. It should only use between close friends or family members.....

BOFA

Today's sharing is
& D0 \3 i. ~* y1 o4 @  "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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% k) l" N, ~0 X3 kTry 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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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.

9 D+ S0 [: d; r  a8 O- G' A& I8 tMeaning: 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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4 e) h( H  ]# P" t) fMeaning: things are getting better, espcially illness and bad mood.
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+ u3 g2 t+ J& ?4 k0 X10. 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

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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.