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What are these phrase mean? #1 (permalink) Fri Dec 10, 2004 7:50 am   What are these phrase mean?
 

there are a lot of phtases in the Enlglish languge,but their means could not be translated easily.I have some difficulties in these phrases.
1give you the shirt off his back

2 laugh up one's sleeve

3 face lift

4 bear up well

5 square deal

6now you're talking.

7rat race

8wall flower

9fall back on

10before you know it
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What are these phrase mean? #2 (permalink) Fri Dec 10, 2004 18:36 pm   What are these phrase mean?
 

my comments are under each quote.
montoya_cl328 wrote:
1give you the shirt off his back
means to give you everything he has, even his shirt. fallows along if someone has no money they will give EVERYTHING they have.
2 laugh up one's sleeve
never heard of it
3 face lift
plastic surgery used to take away all old peoples wrinkles hhaha
4 bear up well
never heard of it
5 square deal
bad deal
6now you're talking.
means now you have got my attention, or im interested, or thats my style, generally means you have same opinion as i do about something or someone
7rat race
was a good movie ahah, well if i fallow the movie it means a whole bunch of people or animals haha, racing on a BIG prize like in the movie it was for 2 million dollars.
8wall flower
flower that grown on a wall :?:
9fall back on
someone you can rely on or trust
10before you know it
means you can do it so fast no one will realize how fast you did it
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What are these phrase mean? #3 (permalink) Wed Dec 15, 2004 6:26 am   What are these phrase mean?
 

yo wrote:
my comments are under each quote.
montoya_cl328 wrote:
1give you the shirt off his back
means to give you everything he has, even his shirt. fallows along if someone has no money they will give EVERYTHING they have.
2 laugh up one's sleeve
never heard of it
3 face lift
plastic surgery used to take away all old peoples wrinkles hhaha
4 bear up well
never heard of it
5 square deal
bad deal
6now you're talking.
means now you have got my attention, or im interested, or thats my style, generally means you have same opinion as i do about something or someone
7rat race
was a good movie ahah, well if i fallow the movie it means a whole bunch of people or animals haha, racing on a BIG prize like in the movie it was for 2 million dollars.
8wall flower
flower that grown on a wall :?:
9fall back on
someone you can rely on or trust
10before you know it
means you can do it so fast no one will realize how fast you did it


and there are some new phrases I have.
1which way to turn

2get a hold of

3flat broke

4blow up

5yes man

6movie bug

7go around

8fair and square

9make it a point
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What are these phrase mean? #4 (permalink) Thu Dec 16, 2004 5:51 am   What are these phrase mean?
 

montoya_cl328 wrote:
and there are some new phrases I have.
1which way to turn
it means what do i do now
2get a hold of
if you say get a hold of yourself it means calm down, suck it up, take it like a man and get over it and move on
3flat broke
means you got $0 haha
4blow up
get really mad
5yes man
means yes man or, yeah

6movie bug
someone who watches a lot of movies?
7go around
go around...
8fair and square
good deal, i did it fairly, no cheating
9make it a point
never heard of that
Yo
I'm here quite often ;-)


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Quotes what they mean #5 (permalink) Wed Feb 16, 2005 9:19 am   Quotes what they mean
 

To laugh up your sleeve means to conceal your amusement, in other words laughing behind someone's back, or not showing that you think what they're doing is funny or stupid.

bear up well, means to carry on with life uner adversity
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