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BOFA

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

Stick-in-the-mud

& m3 I! {4 P/ F  ]! aMeaning: 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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, p7 c# S' x  @$ ^8 p: i6 LI remember there is a song having such a line.
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) U- {+ f% [3 Q; N[ 本帖最后由 豆腐温柔 于 2008-7-30 12:28 编辑 ]

BOFA

Pour out your soul
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$ W# L: z8 E: H* a9 K! OMeaning: Tell your private feelings, tell all.
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Example:
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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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9 t- W; V- L& FMeaning: 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
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Meaning: Tendency to think about only one subject

: L/ v7 U& K. u; l( _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

Meaning:
吃亏
English: The worst job, the least pay, also Dump on
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! N& |; p) z. X2 OExample:
- K4 {1 k1 r( n$ Y1 u5 [# _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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# R/ y" C, }% |7 `* J# TMeaning: 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.
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* q$ c* G* \% B9 P/ L. `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
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  I% d% Z; R# u9 t( m6 P; l4. 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....

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.

Follow Suit
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9 W9 }% `9 W% MMeaning: (in Bridge, cards,....games) play the same suit. Generally, take the same action.

BOFA

You Have Me There

4 ]5 ~0 ]- J* H; ?  ["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
You Have Me There
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% q' r# T* N! f$ h"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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$ c5 m' W* |. z! A3 oNow 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!!

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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, T5 M& O) r! Q4 V$ r3 d/ TMeaning: 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。
% C  `4 W- I% N3 u9 n         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>

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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

( a* V. q6 t# G! d0 xMhhh. 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......."

: R2 o. x6 O- u6 P# Hbut 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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3 A9 k6 r9 ~; Z# HTry 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:

% l% p% N4 J% q1 o1 a( UVery 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.

; \( B) c3 V; Y- GMeaning: what is upset  you? What's going on? What happens to you?
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' v) \. n  T0 M$ _, f1 S3 D% h% n1 _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

/ X3 ]0 Y6 i8 e" S2 KMeaning: things are getting better, espcially illness and bad mood.

0 O, I/ f$ q+ d2 S% COnline Dicationary explains as follows:
: |' x! t5 }  t+ x: \5 j4 }2 m10. on the mend, a. recovering from an illness.  
" F1 Q: r) [( h7 Zb. 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


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.