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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

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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[ 本帖最后由 豆腐温柔 于 2008-7-30 12:28 编辑 ]

BOFA

Pour out your soul
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8 g3 W: r) m7 `- |$ A: t- ]Meaning: Tell your private feelings, tell all.

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When Zora visits, she pours out her soul to me about her lover.

BOFA

<font bold>Odds and Ends</font>

6 O' j2 D1 E' J9 z$ bMeaning: Small pieces that are not used, loose ends.
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4 O- o1 e6 n1 `  PExample: 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

- q  r7 N  w# M$ H- u- r  P2 vMeaning: Tendency to think about only one subject

8 e- @, Q% m7 t3 [# XMy son has a one -track mind these days. He thinks only about cars.
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august99

The short end of the stick
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Meaning:
吃亏
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

' n  F( d9 U9 x" W' bMeaning: 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。
5 P9 T$ p6 k+ C5 c9 yExample: 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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1. Laugh up your sleeve
. Y% m: k2 G. t5 f; E    Meaning: laugh secretly at someone, behind your back.
, ~7 B5 o& F7 B- T0 }4 t- L    在背后偷偷笑 (我想应该是不怀好意吧）

! b- y1 d. y1 n/ h" U2 A. Z2. Laugh your head off
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3. Laugh yourself sick
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0 L2 `# \$ _( t2 M: L4. Laugh yourself silly

  f+ @! i- G! _# P- {Item 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.
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Follow Suit
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Meaning: (in Bridge, cards,....games) play the same suit. Generally, take the same action.

BOFA

You Have Me There
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/ e/ _- m5 X4 \9 Q! c4 m, r3 }"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
) L3 j' ^6 I2 @6 W5 v! hYou Have Me There
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+ l" R! W' p% A2 x"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.

You 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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0 ~, {  R% _" J# M# q* v$ [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。
- C; J/ ~) p6 b3 ]4 f         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
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( S- L& `8 h8 n9 c  W% RMhhh. Is the person wanting to buy some ideas from someone else? Surely not.

3 n; C5 V8 D$ U4 c4 m& hIt 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"

$ q8 S" o0 W1 F% CMeaning: 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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3 \- S+ M5 S, D  H2 QTry 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.

0 O; e5 Q( @# W; ]0 e1 _) OCheck the dictionary and it means:
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Very interested in..... or feel suspense in a (story ect. ).

4 @# s' M- A& M! V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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2 z( B* j- Q8 l2 t+ MMeaning: 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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8 E* v4 ^! ^, f. S& J: WMeaning: things are getting better, espcially illness and bad mood.

1 J& c& B+ A* Z# y0 D: gOnline Dicationary explains as follows:
; T) t/ p9 N$ b6 ~* s0 h10. 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.  
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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.