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BOFA

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

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" _1 ]! I& Q. e% cMeaning: 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

Meaning: Tell your private feelings, tell all.

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! o" e8 L7 Z0 ZWhen Zora visits, she pours out her soul to me about her lover.

BOFA

<font bold>Odds and Ends</font>
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6 u: S- O6 R* B% vMeaning: 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
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5 }9 ]- v: @" `* m6 I! \* UMy 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
# e3 f; ^* {4 C: Q; }0 K8 PEnglish: The worst job, the least pay, also Dump on
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- |0 ?( W% e4 _8 d. b9 ^7 bExample:
- H# g( t: A( W2 A- AI work with Ken, I always get the short end of the stick. He gives me the hard jobs

BOFA

Lay a Trip

! P8 q- _6 M5 J$ L9 S' AMeaning: 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.
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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.

8 S* y3 R" [3 r( ?2 R# |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
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! ^% g! x5 M) C5 R) e3 n, Y) z: D" h5 C, k3. Laugh yourself sick

4. Laugh yourself silly

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

BOFA

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.

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

"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)

  I2 C' g4 m- g0 d( M; S2 ANow you make a sentence out of it.

8 v( x  N8 Y& g5 L8 j; B# RYou really have me there, Bofa.
You got me.

xb.su

精品中年老男人

GOOD!!
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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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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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  H( T* z0 X  j+ @! d7 C1 `<p> <font color="Red"><b> A chip off the old black</b></font></p>
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) C5 @9 X9 C2 N7 G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:
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. A- e, Z7 E6 @' K% k) smakes 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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/ C4 T3 y( t- [! f3 K' h5 O7 B. ^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"

0 r8 T5 u, I7 PMeaning: 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。

2 \% }; }  E) e; a' d6 u( UTry 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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6 r8 V% U5 w: v0 }( |Check the dictionary and it means:

5 F) V& d- y7 _" E) c( U, bVery 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.
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+ K! N( X; ?" D! n, SMeaning: what is upset  you? What's going on? What happens to you?
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# P# z: o3 X; X- f# j% ]5 O4 ^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

  ?6 i2 p0 Y. p4 x5 S* D  x2 Y( o9 ?Meaning: things are getting better, espcially illness and bad mood.
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" D6 s, ?0 x! c5 \' w) [8 NOnline Dicationary explains as follows:
10. on the mend, a. recovering from an illness.  
& ~" k0 W% X% k; C( i% A6 Lb. improving in general, as a state of affairs: The breach between father and son is on the mend.  
6 b' a+ x( H# a. E% c% ^7 S% w http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/on%20the%20mend
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; {5 E4 s& y) C0 yI 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.