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BOFA

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

Stick-in-the-mud

; `( W3 m# f& T, H1 {Meaning: refer to a person who doesn't go out, also Party-Pooper
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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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3 F! M# N# z! |% j0 I8 r[ 本帖最后由 豆腐温柔 于 2008-7-30 12:28 编辑 ]

BOFA

Pour out your soul

9 B8 g/ ^3 r; X2 Q5 W7 uMeaning: Tell your private feelings, tell all.

Example:
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1 M4 C6 a' j2 f5 `5 z" tWhen 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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  K9 Y" t, g' V/ g+ r0 sExample: 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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/ I! @5 K: Q0 X* E2 v. X3 SMeaning: Tendency to think about only one subject

+ ^( g3 d" {, @7 _5 O& Y4 p* HMy son has a one -track mind these days. He thinks only about cars.
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august99

The short end of the stick

6 F* a; B' T5 r1 h$ fMeaning:
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2 c; y: d$ g# K. zEnglish: The worst job, the least pay, also Dump on
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, Y4 h" x2 E" J# F+ N/ d: SExample:
' U% h* [) k! MI 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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* X0 F6 O( @& hMeaning: 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。
% G5 o: a: S0 QExample: Don't lay a trip on me about low grades. I am studying hard.

8 D% f. V1 J% B: X6 g8 J  Y  h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.
    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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Item 2-4 all mean that you laugh so hard, so long, that you feel ache, "sick", or....

" L, t. L: t8 t' m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
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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)
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, w* a" o% f! Q" Q; L4 N1 C# JNow 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?

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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& ?& P# ?" e/ i) k  yMeaning: 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。。
        =when the situation is urgent.
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<p> <font color="Red"><b> A chip off the old black</b></font></p>

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

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

) Y! |/ w8 j6 t( ]4 jIt means "What are you thinking about?" "What is in your mind" (why you are staring at the ceiling and wordless......."
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+ L9 G6 r6 R6 m5 Xbut 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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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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Check the dictionary and it means:
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Very interested in..... or feel suspense in a (story ect. ).
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& F) p2 c' P: p* {7 Q8 l6 X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?

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.

) ~3 t1 V- T3 g& U9 S) k, SOnline Dicationary explains as follows:
6 S" _, [4 V/ ~% C; `0 }10. on the mend, a. recovering from an illness.  
+ j& D2 e: ?4 d/ G0 D( e0 Qb. 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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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.