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BOFA

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

Stick-in-the-mud

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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BOFA

Pour out your soul

Meaning: Tell your private feelings, tell all.

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>

Meaning: 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

  n; i/ p2 I% Q/ I  OMy 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

" a3 x( ?: u7 v/ r% [* x  `6 |Example:
3 I, q; ?& _6 ]; N5 r, M& i5 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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4 v0 w) p  z1 m; n" K" F$ X9 pMeaning: 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.

" ?6 ~$ A8 T/ ^' H- G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）

0 a' H$ S. N/ M/ _2. Laugh your head off

3. Laugh yourself sick
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4. Laugh yourself silly
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7 o- E5 b* u& Z# k1 O( `( R1 ZItem 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.

+ ]( g  h) P( ~5 |: }$ ?8 iFollow Suit
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Meaning: (in Bridge, cards,....games) play the same suit. Generally, take the same action.

BOFA

You Have Me There

2 y% x4 V, ?; B/ n5 _! q2 ~"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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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
" f/ P+ Z" t. t" h/ WYou Have Me There

, r9 O, r* M0 f, `- r"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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Now you make a sentence out of it.

* B6 E3 p4 z- }2 g8 y6 Y& dYou really have me there, Bofa.
: Z! R* q1 L/ @# wYou 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>

; j" w& R1 c- k4 {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。
* }, I0 x7 }: f1 c         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.


% J" d# Q" o3 Y1 f( ?<p> <font color="Red"><b> A chip off the old black</b></font></p>
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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.
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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......."
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BOFA

Today's sharing is
  "By the seat of one's pants"
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0 l; ?$ s# T/ Y  G. k. vMeaning: 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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+ f* Z" V+ L$ J1 l; S8 L- g4 ]* @* o7 ?Try 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.

- o% p% V, T7 ?# nCheck the dictionary and it means:

! m' ^1 C4 i, L* ?Very interested in..... or feel suspense in a (story ect. ).

# [: P6 B* l' @+ a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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Meaning: what is upset  you? What's going on? What happens to you?
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) q( J) k' Y# t' J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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. T3 U$ O# D- O# I8 \0 tMeaning: things are getting better, espcially illness and bad mood.
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Online Dicationary explains as follows:
0 a4 ^- T6 t) H. X8 v10. 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.  
  Z5 R1 W- ~/ i" X6 I7 `- y; p http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/on%20the%20mend


* t0 G* ?  N9 V5 E. g3 S! ~' qI 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.