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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
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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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. H* Z9 o" q5 d[ 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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Meaning: Tell your private feelings, tell all.
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3 q! H0 B1 |# zExample:
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3 T1 j1 v) ]4 _# R* R6 Z* s7 vWhen 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.

) ?6 M! k1 d; t' Z9 CExample: 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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; ?9 F5 }0 @; R7 {$ {% l0 g  E6 H2 fMeaning: 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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august99

The short end of the stick
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Meaning:
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) P9 f: o7 {* S4 BEnglish: The worst job, the least pay, also Dump on

$ }# {5 @9 B6 ?( l/ xExample:
/ b! L- Y0 b; z1 l5 M7 lI 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。
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.

% O- {; r! s, _' T6 w1. 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）
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1 j9 w. y5 ]- V2. Laugh your head off
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3. Laugh yourself sick

6 ^3 R2 C% D2 h" T1 N. Y. m4. Laugh yourself silly

Item 2-4 all mean that you laugh so hard, so long, that you feel ache, "sick", or....
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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
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Meaning: (in Bridge, cards,....games) play the same suit. Generally, take the same action.

BOFA

You Have Me There
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& j  |/ ?$ Z5 g7 U9 v"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)

; V8 M* n5 n$ w9 M" c: iNow 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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"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.

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>

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。
! P/ ^3 a( E$ v" @2 u- u         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:

4 {' d- S* D/ z# p  Y# [makes the ball backspin in pool game

BOFA

A Penny for your thoughts

Mhhh. Is the person wanting to buy some ideas from someone else? Surely not.

. Q! ]- ^" P8 t, \% `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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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。

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.

. j! C; ?4 p$ l9 ~* u7 kCheck the dictionary and it means:
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3 X1 x& h; ?: w5 R+ E* QVery interested in..... or feel suspense in a (story ect. ).
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3 @( L% }' X/ W, \: U" G. N) \5 p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?
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: n& c$ j7 D5 x0 G9 ~' X/ E9 y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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) b+ z2 h; f' |5 W" i1 j; VMeaning: things are getting better, espcially illness and bad mood.
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: S9 E/ \$ r& G1 WOnline Dicationary explains as follows:
0 b4 S- _+ f. F- d, E10. 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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1 Y- {+ Z* H' SI 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.