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BOFA

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

+ |# }$ {" }. }5 [Stick-in-the-mud

( E2 M; D" V" k4 D9 n1 jMeaning: 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.

! X- }3 r' b5 @8 n2 @0 FI 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

+ B8 `7 \" R8 G& u7 R  \) v+ e: d4 uMeaning: 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>
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$ `2 F; b7 }* K+ }( M% tMeaning: Small pieces that are not used, loose ends.
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# b: M, |3 @$ g8 ]" w+ GExample: 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

8 r* ^3 O1 I& }$ _; B, M0 sMeaning: 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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Copied from the original posting by BOFA

august99

The short end of the stick

Meaning:
吃亏
7 P/ k" Z  z* Z, R4 D0 w, ZEnglish: The worst job, the least pay, also Dump on

2 e5 e5 e4 M' ~! s- G4 u% hExample:
I work with Ken, I always get the short end of the stick. He gives me the hard jobs

BOFA

Lay a Trip
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" f% C' P% \+ [+ P9 T* I9 R! nMeaning: 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.

7 q+ d9 a3 z7 O+ {  a0 _5 A1. Laugh up your sleeve
/ Z" G! U! |8 D# e* S. U    Meaning: laugh secretly at someone, behind your back.
    在背后偷偷笑 (我想应该是不怀好意吧）
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0 @4 M/ ~! x3 g$ K" g! s' e+ x+ y2. Laugh your head off
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3. Laugh yourself sick
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4. Laugh yourself silly
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7 U+ U0 ~6 ?9 v4 W! Z, F9 fItem 2-4 all mean that you laugh so hard, so long, that you feel ache, "sick", or....
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8 o# G3 a; q0 P4 |1 x9 W! D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.

' C: M$ [8 Q7 wFollow Suit

* \- i( [. \! [, i+ W* OMeaning: (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)
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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( i1 t* B9 N8 I* TYou 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)

7 K5 g/ l6 o. [7 q# _& ]1 vNow you make a sentence out of it.

! w4 i: ?, t* a! O' ]You really have me there, Bofa.
) \2 y* Z$ g/ w8 ^4 Z3 v3 v9 q- RYou got me.

xb.su

精品中年老男人

GOOD!!

Some more?
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1 _3 }2 [7 `' H4 n. v9 x- ~8 ^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。。
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<p> <font color="Red"><b> A chip off the old black</b></font></p>
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/ ?7 t* A2 F8 d2 I. Y# ]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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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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; \# F5 T( v3 l7 E( ~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.

Check the dictionary and it means:
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Very interested in..... or feel suspense in a (story ect. ).

5 [- }+ U7 L- E- v  V5 \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.

# t2 Y5 _- t8 n( X+ H9 P6 KMeaning: 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
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. o$ a' C$ m% c- g. |8 g4 vMeaning: things are getting better, espcially illness and bad mood.

Online Dicationary explains as follows:
10. on the mend, a. recovering from an illness.  
/ X5 Q" ~* f9 y' g6 Z. Tb. improving in general, as a state of affairs: The breach between father and son is on the mend.  
1 F0 p8 B7 Y2 c+ R$ m$ I3 l0 K1 p http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/on%20the%20mend
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3 m/ y$ g# V% f5 |3 dI 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.