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BOFA

Per August99's suggestion, I am now putting all in one thread for easy tracing.

Stick-in-the-mud

9 E+ T$ f+ {% @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.

I remember there is a song having such a line.
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  e+ {  r3 K: C2 F/ Y[ 本帖最后由 豆腐温柔 于 2008-7-30 12:28 编辑 ]

BOFA

Pour out your soul

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>

+ V& ^& l% y: f2 q8 f' [$ i% uMeaning: Small pieces that are not used, loose ends.

" Z& S( E6 }( 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
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Meaning: Tendency to think about only one subject
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# h9 T' i' c4 x& h0 `* n# p0 D/ n/ M& L2 jMy 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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  N0 J/ M# g; ]: V$ M1 BEnglish: The worst job, the least pay, also Dump on

8 i& c& R  P6 T2 b  v0 JExample:
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BOFA

Lay a Trip

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。
, n; r) [  G. C7 x. t& HExample: Don't lay a trip on me about low grades. I am studying hard.

" M6 r7 s" a" X& T9 F3 m: l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.

1. Laugh up your sleeve
    Meaning: laugh secretly at someone, behind your back.
8 e7 K/ V$ |" _* ~. U. Q0 P6 i    在背后偷偷笑 (我想应该是不怀好意吧）
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8 H5 P) X) X3 Q8 s: Q% z! E2. Laugh your head off

% x2 s$ Y; @/ H: W+ A+ n3. Laugh yourself sick

4. Laugh yourself silly
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0 o( q9 S! K/ `7 C' FItem 2-4 all mean that you laugh so hard, so long, that you feel ache, "sick", or....

% T' U7 S3 U2 Y  w0 g4 Y) Y# d) u$ t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

. Z+ K5 ^6 V) r. H; w: K3 kMeaning: (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)

2 v! e9 F0 B9 S# {) p# L: uNow 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)
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7 W; M1 K2 [, X; B+ ~Now you make a sentence out of it.

, ^/ n3 J" t6 WYou really have me there, Bofa.
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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>

" Y) ]; q( F! D/ TMeaning: 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。。
        =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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* S2 n( W0 _1 o' R2 H+ p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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" C! r/ u% j6 I) D/ ymakes the ball backspin in pool game

BOFA

A Penny for your thoughts
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  Z* X" P8 L& H6 u  r9 }Mhhh. Is the person wanting to buy some ideas from someone else? Surely not.
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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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8 t7 O. d4 ?; |6 ^but 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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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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" f0 N9 V/ ?; h9 B& w. @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.

0 S( ?3 o% V1 k( DCheck the dictionary and it means:
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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?

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 {  G* |/ Z: N9 xMeaning: things are getting better, espcially illness and bad mood.

. ^; N5 y( G" P7 V+ `3 i) |Online 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

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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.