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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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1 ?5 k8 L: k% `8 ]( mMeaning: 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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" E- D- O4 r* a9 O% o8 n1 y8 ~I remember there is a song having such a line.
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BOFA

Pour out your soul

, @5 R  b: L" y# y4 ~2 fMeaning: Tell your private feelings, tell all.
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Example:

- g, ~( `! |/ g+ sWhen Zora visits, she pours out her soul to me about her lover.

BOFA

<font bold>Odds and Ends</font>

* _% V: @5 |. A- |  P4 h& XMeaning: Small pieces that are not used, loose ends.
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0 E  i$ N" b$ y' U/ _$ fExample: 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

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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English: The worst job, the least pay, also Dump on
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Example:
6 `+ C  t1 z7 t% L+ r: W1 o. x8 zI 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.
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( I# b  R! g! m2 w8 \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
. @" l/ U4 N- v' {& y( F4 v    Meaning: laugh secretly at someone, behind your back.
    在背后偷偷笑 (我想应该是不怀好意吧）

. k; {0 H( x: ~" R; `* ^  t! P$ O2. Laugh your head off
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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....
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: F6 z. x4 V1 O  w6 i& z7 R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.

1 Y2 B) c* w! x( G) M  m1 eFollow Suit

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

BOFA

You Have Me There

4 |# K  @7 x  I) k4 W& @' O"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
2 o! W; L3 ~+ @  cYou Have Me There

/ ]. M% i( S7 M1 Q) e"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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1 B6 j! r) E5 }7 H. NYou really have me there, Bofa.
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xb.su

精品中年老男人

GOOD!!

Some more?
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billzhao

goood, go on

BOFA

<P><font color="Red"><b>When the chips are down</b></font></p>

7 I3 r& S2 K% T5 \4 [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。
+ `* D0 E7 D4 e: ^' n1 h5 K8 _: s         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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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
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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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0 `" ?: m+ p% k( Z- A8 o5 ?) _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"
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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.

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 a4 D  Z2 T# j3 q4 V& s( j( K0 OCheck the dictionary and it means:

Very interested in..... or feel suspense in a (story ect. ).

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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% u- @! K$ U. n7 j# kMeaning: what is upset  you? What's going on? What happens to you?
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BOFA

On the Mend
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Meaning: things are getting better, espcially illness and bad mood.

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  ?' ]- Q/ E" l4 [6 _" ~10. 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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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.