Canadian Slang Share

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
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1 Z6 e; q1 h% `1 r2 Z+ ~Example: Farley, that stick-in-the-mud. He never go to parties.
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9 w5 d( v3 W6 J' F, o% U' II remember there is a song having such a line.
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[ 本帖最后由 豆腐温柔 于 2008-7-30 12:28 编辑 ]

BOFA

Pour out your soul

# [+ n( T+ }6 ]7 f- NMeaning: Tell your private feelings, tell all.

Example:

7 k; V  m5 G/ R$ D/ TWhen 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.

- O! {7 }4 n) O. lExample: 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

  W) j- Z0 x0 j, q6 _! w6 g. fMy 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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/ H0 \" h2 J) A: x% [English: The worst job, the least pay, also Dump on

Example:
& J5 C! p) Z$ _) k8 QI work with Ken, I always get the short end of the stick. He gives me the hard jobs

BOFA

Lay a Trip

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.

9 x7 n4 V0 F9 c2 ^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.

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）
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( ]% T  l/ v5 ~  C# e2. Laugh your head off

  d" r+ Z$ q5 k4 @$ I3. Laugh yourself sick

4. Laugh yourself silly

  k% ~9 F8 [, v& l- _6 f# ZItem 2-4 all mean that you laugh so hard, so long, that you feel ache, "sick", or....

) `% @: |# N  }. l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

"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
" _: P2 A5 b# g/ B- y( Z9 AYou Have Me There
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; z; z! \: w5 w' T"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)

$ S& c7 `& l3 e% G* i% lNow you make a sentence out of it.

" [$ @  X% U9 J# UYou really have me there, Bofa.
You got me.

xb.su

精品中年老男人

GOOD!!

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billzhao

goood, go on

BOFA

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

5 `$ }+ ^: Z2 R1 M$ Y! dMeaning: 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。。
6 `& o+ k5 g/ W9 v& g4 h        =when the situation is urgent.
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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:
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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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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"

+ i. S7 Q# d! U9 GMeaning: 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。

! C1 X( @3 E3 hTry 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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( S. C- a8 g4 O0 AVery 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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Meaning: what is upset  you? What's going on? What happens to you?
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, ~, Z/ ~+ T& ^2 z3 s" C& @* t1 z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

+ H% |4 ^; o7 v. ^Meaning: things are getting better, espcially illness and bad mood.
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Online Dicationary explains as follows:
5 `# |8 W4 E- n, P- H+ \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.  
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/on%20the%20mend

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: E6 g6 q- }# @' a7 UI 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.