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BOFA

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

Stick-in-the-mud
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6 H5 Z0 F' g1 B' X; b2 WMeaning: refer to a person who doesn't go out, also Party-Pooper

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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BOFA

Pour out your soul

% Z2 u* ?3 D+ z+ h3 g) xMeaning: 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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Meaning: Small pieces that are not used, loose ends.
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5 F5 I- ~5 [2 Z, 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

Meaning: Tendency to think about only one subject
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  ?7 V, i# F; ?My son has a one -track mind these days. He thinks only about cars.
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august99

The short end of the stick

5 }+ z# S: Z# E8 `' R9 V0 h7 ~Meaning:
吃亏
English: The worst job, the least pay, also Dump on

Example:
7 [  G/ y, L. x4 EI 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。
! C& P$ Z0 j9 l1 B% K8 ~Example: Don't lay a trip on me about low grades. I am studying hard.

1 W' ~" L) ]1 |! R8 _" J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.

: D; _. P* k% R( h# D; \" p% c1. Laugh up your sleeve
- O7 b, Q  }4 z! Y  s    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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2. Laugh your head off
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3. Laugh yourself sick

4. Laugh yourself silly
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! n4 |" Y/ H- A8 M2 x6 jItem 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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Meaning: (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)

* H4 p+ p( X/ J2 R( u9 q) ^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
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: j1 P6 N9 P1 V( G# G5 o"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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, {0 n5 T0 _8 y: ^1 z) g5 Q$ {0 \Now you make a sentence out of it.

You really have me there, Bofa.
You got me.

xb.su

精品中年老男人

GOOD!!
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& ^6 D; k# H' g, [+ ]) USome more?
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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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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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, G- x1 V9 p3 O$ uMhhh. Is the person wanting to buy some ideas from someone else? Surely not.
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1 z: K: X/ k! C! {) C5 yIt means "What are you thinking about?" "What is in your mind" (why you are staring at the ceiling and wordless......."

8 y' I* c, v$ }0 T& U$ P0 N  ~: ^! {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。

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.
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% X5 G$ y; U1 Q% o0 Q' J/ OCheck the dictionary and it means:
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, T; a5 }: s( j7 T; r  o+ j. PVery interested in..... or feel suspense in a (story ect. ).
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1 |3 l! w  [, o; y3 ~" T. D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.

Meaning: what is upset  you? What's going on? What happens to you?

0 e$ S3 O* A: o% o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.
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Online Dicationary explains as follows:
' L' e: b: A* c3 a6 x% G) O# D4 `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.  
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  ]5 L) A0 H, WI 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.