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BOFA

Per August99's suggestion, I am now putting all in one thread for easy tracing.
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( t: @* ?1 N! H# cStick-in-the-mud

+ @8 C- t5 [2 ]$ Y# Q) cMeaning: refer to a person who doesn't go out, also Party-Pooper

Example: Farley, that stick-in-the-mud. He never go to parties.

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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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>

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
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  E# C5 a* l8 A. V! ^" H! V# }2 CMeaning: Tendency to think about only one subject

4 E3 H! D2 j7 M$ EMy son has a one -track mind these days. He thinks only about cars.

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august99

The short end of the stick

! c: v1 G1 Y# g+ R$ p7 y+ ^Meaning:
吃亏
English: The worst job, the least pay, also Dump on

Example:
: x3 ?2 l+ b7 d" c2 HI work with Ken, I always get the short end of the stick. He gives me the hard jobs

BOFA

Lay a Trip

; ~$ H1 o3 [7 l7 J3 _! O4 EMeaning: 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。
+ g0 r9 P$ x" G% [: P8 zExample: Don't lay a trip on me about low grades. I am studying hard.
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* P1 t/ f) }' a" o& i" X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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1. Laugh up your sleeve
. @- R# K/ s. V8 S    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

4. Laugh yourself silly
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Item 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.
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4 J! Q1 c9 h6 L* S9 L5 s, GFollow Suit

Meaning: (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)

5 u' O. d7 r; B0 A, j7 ~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
4 z0 L0 l2 ?* j; l+ RYou 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)

Now you make a sentence out of it.

2 Y* `5 _  k# }4 ^You really have me there, Bofa.
You got me.

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>

8 N; H' b$ m. L. BMeaning: 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。。
+ Q) M7 M- f# T        =when the situation is urgent.
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7 [# ~# X4 Y$ Z: x7 {1 \% `' `<p> <font color="Red"><b> A chip off the old black</b></font></p>
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9 x1 N2 B3 Q% ~3 S- N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:

# Y# a; H1 K0 s' vmakes 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.

1 k& R; {' N- l# V% X6 rIt means "What are you thinking about?" "What is in your mind" (why you are staring at the ceiling and wordless......."

* t- h0 T' F+ l- O) r9 bbut 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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6 @4 O5 l9 \8 ~/ _) ?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.
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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 H2 }, ?2 U2 `2 DCheck 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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. _1 `# h& S! X5 `7 d5 D2 LMeaning: what is upset  you? What's going on? What happens to you?

" L5 B7 u  w- ~2 I; c  M' X& v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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( v. v2 s/ p* g! |: QMeaning: 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.  
2 N# I% G* L! Hb. improving in general, as a state of affairs: The breach between father and son is on the mend.  
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, \6 F6 j8 r; B+ E0 vI 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.