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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

3 Q8 t4 t( S1 R3 N7 M, }Meaning: refer to a person who doesn't go out, also Party-Pooper

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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& L; ]. @' J7 Y7 Y6 ^" T. B[ 本帖最后由 豆腐温柔 于 2008-7-30 12:28 编辑 ]

BOFA

Pour out your soul

; P5 X3 V0 O/ w' p8 W' SMeaning: Tell your private feelings, tell all.
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Example:
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4 e1 A& q! Z! e/ \- GWhen Zora visits, she pours out her soul to me about her lover.

BOFA

<font bold>Odds and Ends</font>

+ Y6 A2 S1 c$ \" [8 EMeaning: Small pieces that are not used, loose ends.
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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

2 U) ?5 [, r" S, V. F9 gMy son has a one -track mind these days. He thinks only about cars.



Copied from the original posting by BOFA

august99

The short end of the stick

Meaning:
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1 f2 a7 y% V- f8 l2 z2 z% c4 \8 R8 ZEnglish: The worst job, the least pay, also Dump on
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Example:
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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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。
9 h* v5 h: l3 |% D* a0 OExample: 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
    Meaning: laugh secretly at someone, behind your back.
: Q. _8 V1 s2 T1 E0 V3 j    在背后偷偷笑 (我想应该是不怀好意吧）

' O" ]% \! T! j2 t+ \0 Z* O2. Laugh your head off
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5 }8 W9 |3 W. o3. Laugh yourself sick

4. Laugh yourself silly
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Item 2-4 all mean that you laugh so hard, so long, that you feel ache, "sick", or....
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/ ^. X7 x9 r8 t7 V/ [4 L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

Meaning: (in Bridge, cards,....games) play the same suit. Generally, take the same action.

BOFA

You Have Me There

8 ^' d; Y: G) Q7 t6 H$ D"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)

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
( T: |" }8 u- K' eYou Have Me There

% N( x  G. \) R* J) ]0 E: z"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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* _( `+ e* c( @# O: d! c  yNow you make a sentence out of it.

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xb.su

精品中年老男人

GOOD!!

Some more?
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' K1 Q1 ^: y9 T7 c" y$ eThanks for sharing!!

billzhao

goood, go on

BOFA

<P><font color="Red"><b>When the chips are down</b></font></p>

4 h! \% R7 d3 v, GMeaning: 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。
7 I1 _0 ^% p7 n! h! U' A         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.


<p> <font color="Red"><b> A chip off the old black</b></font></p>

/ Y! i" ~6 o* v$ E6 q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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+ w2 R+ ]/ O+ `- K3 uIt means "What are you thinking about?" "What is in your mind" (why you are staring at the ceiling and wordless......."

% l6 M$ @, E0 Fbut 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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6 Z0 o& z+ I  m& n) B) i; ?" FMeaning: 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.

7 y! I, Z5 m* x: \$ W5 V$ o- CCheck the dictionary and it means:
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Very interested in..... or feel suspense in a (story ect. ).
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3 S: F, \! T( k! E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.

  T1 w, M* X  n2 c6 @/ FMeaning: 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

Meaning: things are getting better, espcially illness and bad mood.

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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+ E# s4 ~, D3 Y; ^; t" ?+ v$ XI 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.