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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

9 c& U3 E+ r8 A% ^) d- B  Q  MExample: 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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# g- B" M) c3 w& u! a  d7 yMeaning: Tell your private feelings, tell all.

  \9 t  T( S% S5 d8 d: n% qExample:
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0 V: j3 O7 X3 x8 ]/ C* Q8 L4 n* aWhen 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

Meaning: Tendency to think about only one subject

+ I; {5 G/ k* H- z& G  |# tMy 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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# Z" z# a& I+ }! l9 j8 }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

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.

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.
    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

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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7 u3 p6 y! B: HFollow Suit

* `5 C% f% c0 B' p1 FMeaning: (in Bridge, cards,....games) play the same suit. Generally, take the same action.

BOFA

You Have Me There
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6 o+ z6 L! q& B) k5 [! y' G"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
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)
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" K3 V$ a/ D' N1 J) Q; XNow you make a sentence out of it.

$ H# ], ?" c5 o% ?* e; IYou really have me there, Bofa.
3 L0 \; {( O$ u3 H7 g$ U  x% eYou 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。
( f! n4 f0 `* i( e2 j         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。。
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5 [! r. z2 c# B8 P8 W; r2 l<p> <font color="Red"><b> A chip off the old black</b></font></p>
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' f$ u7 D5 N5 O  m- Y! 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:

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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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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. n7 g0 j% c6 N( [& \8 Kbut 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"

$ L; ~6 U, |, {( GMeaning: 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.
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Check the dictionary and it means:
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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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. a# Y$ }5 }+ o0 ]- pMeaning: what is upset  you? What's going on? What happens to you?

4 A' O) o7 d' x6 s, ]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

' A' p. y' v) I2 q0 T% N3 AMeaning: things are getting better, espcially illness and bad mood.

Online Dicationary explains as follows:
10. on the mend, a. recovering from an illness.  
! P3 l! e; p2 R% U% _1 U& Yb. improving in general, as a state of affairs: The breach between father and son is on the mend.  
6 C3 l+ Q6 X8 g: D1 e: y& L 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.