Canadian Slang Share

BOFA

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

Stick-in-the-mud

Meaning: refer to a person who doesn't go out, also Party-Pooper

" K3 B4 w% O% w2 d- G$ HExample: Farley, that stick-in-the-mud. He never go to parties.

I remember there is a song having such a line.

[ 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.

Example:
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; P! p& s; {+ u5 f0 P9 ^5 MWhen Zora visits, she pours out her soul to me about her lover.

BOFA

<font bold>Odds and Ends</font>
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3 k3 N1 }5 E7 J6 OMeaning: Small pieces that are not used, loose ends.
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0 ?! |! P! P: j3 y, J6 l+ TExample: 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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9 D& Q) s) r4 c/ b/ A% TCopied from the original posting by BOFA

august99

The short end of the stick
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$ x1 x8 c3 L7 G- {) g7 w7 rMeaning:
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: y: D  h: K0 jEnglish: The worst job, the least pay, also Dump on
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: \8 e; [& r/ \; s( X& z1 ^Example:
I work with Ken, I always get the short end of the stick. He gives me the hard jobs

BOFA

Lay a Trip

9 n' ]& O% Y5 }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。
Example: Don't lay a trip on me about low grades. I am studying hard.
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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
! l# j$ O# e* k$ _    Meaning: laugh secretly at someone, behind your back.
& q% D, f* j0 d# U! f    在背后偷偷笑 (我想应该是不怀好意吧）

5 T* d! n' |3 }+ u3 N2. Laugh your head off

( B5 E* a5 A+ D3. Laugh yourself sick
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4. Laugh yourself silly
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! K! W% L+ n0 p% q3 yItem 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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1 q0 {3 f& U! o& l8 GFollow Suit

( b6 @. t" _  MMeaning: (in Bridge, cards,....games) play the same suit. Generally, take the same action.

BOFA

You Have Me There
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9 w2 B  Z: e% Y! U6 M$ T"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
+ }* v* H1 F! A  q- I2 R) d1 g( s. }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)

. y% x. _7 r' c) [Now you make a sentence out of it.

You really have me there, Bofa.
! l( Z% R" _8 g& j/ m* c  _You got me.

xb.su

精品中年老男人

GOOD!!
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Some more?
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! P3 I5 c# w' c, h4 \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。
         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:

$ m/ w5 x; L: d' P0 v/ Smakes 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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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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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"

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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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.

) E! f* s6 h" \5 E& t7 c0 HCheck the dictionary and it means:

& j* a, X0 b. @: Z: dVery interested in..... or feel suspense in a (story ect. ).
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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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7 `5 J) x$ ?1 V# O, hMeaning: 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.

/ Z% }. I9 ]: I" \3 M: X4 R( }Online Dicationary explains as follows:
6 n: f8 B6 T; F9 c  W; |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.  
6 t' D, b0 [% ]5 v http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/on%20the%20mend


( T$ h: I9 k: ~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.