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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

2 z% h: X1 _3 uMeaning: refer to a person who doesn't go out, also Party-Pooper

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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( n- e  |, k6 X5 R/ qMeaning: Tell your private feelings, tell all.

Example:
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7 o8 \) G* G7 @) `, jWhen 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.

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

Meaning: 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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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
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) V3 U! ~! {2 [, @6 v! R' l! 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.

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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6 P/ Y% o  O" h" x# j/ }- P1. 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

4. Laugh yourself silly
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7 l( @* F2 ?" r! e# a/ lItem 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.

3 O8 m5 X' S. t, R+ d0 b7 x6 PFollow Suit
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Meaning: (in Bridge, cards,....games) play the same suit. Generally, take the same action.

BOFA

You Have Me There

"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)

8 U1 Q. U8 P' A+ J' LNow 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
1 x2 t. y5 g$ N) g, S# d' iYou Have Me There
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7 N% s9 ~  d+ K7 C0 F"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.

* }- k+ D# \# UYou 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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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。
$ u, k6 D: W! j* L% }: M, F: a5 f0 d& |         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。。
$ D: X  M6 x4 w+ u/ |4 L        =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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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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Mhhh. Is the person wanting to buy some ideas from someone else? Surely not.
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7 S5 |, R- g9 Z- xIt means "What are you thinking about?" "What is in your mind" (why you are staring at the ceiling and wordless......."

+ @& h- K; ^1 p$ V# L' O# P; pbut 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"
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& R) c$ g! j/ u8 XMeaning: 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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& a# u" G: w) T" W. [) ^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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Check the dictionary and it means:

Very interested in..... or feel suspense in a (story ect. ).

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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Meaning: things are getting better, espcially illness and bad mood.
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Online Dicationary explains as follows:
10. on the mend, a. recovering from an illness.  
- |/ J" i- Z$ Q* eb. 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


: h+ Q+ i: @! A, G8 ]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.