1.You have matches
Recently, I had a chance to board a luxury cruise ship tourism. First, I took two glasses of cocktail bars and Taiwan enjoy the back room, a woman encountered on the way, she said with a smile after I take a look: \"You have matches?\" I am robust, replied: \"I am sorry that I ten Five years ago, on the smoking cessation, there is no match. \"Knowing that she misunderstood her, I mean, I think it was a little sorry to say:\" It\'s a joke. \"Then, we smiled embarrassing each other, away A.
After dinner with friends at the time to chat, I took the opportunity to ask a friend of the United States a day of the sentence, he explained: \"Because you see her hands are occupied, deliberately joking with you to match, this is a very common Jokes, instead of malicious, but would like to ask you need help. \"
(From \"World Journal\")
2.Turn the table
An estranged wife and relatives had come to the point where divorce. A few days ago received a phone relatives, said they entered the law firm before the first turn to marital problems and psychological experts. The couple calmly sit down and talk a good many times, a number of mutual understanding, insufficient suspicion and blame, bury the results. Simple also said that a simple, so to save this marriage.
Daxinyanli I am happy for them, this is also informed them of their understanding of an American friend. The friend\'s very exciting, repeatedly said \"Thank God, thank God,\" she added \"He turned the table\".
I felt this uncomfortable, she refers to the use abusive relatives I do? I Dabaobuping said: \"No, no, he was very gentle, very gentleman, not rude to move to suppress the other side, high pressure will not yield to the other side.\" As a result, the more one can say who did not understand. I looked at that face the unpleasant expression, a friend of the enlightened all of a sudden, another method to explain to me. I finally understand that my relatives said she was a \"twist\", \"table\" and I think the \"table\" This has nothing to do.
Further to say, turn the tables (on someone) and also the phrase \"on the table \'nothing, it means to suddenly take a position of strength or advantage that was formerly held by someone else (has turned the tables for the weakening of the strong), For example: \"She played badly in the first set, but then she turned the tables on her opponent and won the match. (From\" World Journal \")
3.Wearing two hats
Friends of my colleagues, ultimately, to introduce each other. Mr. briefed me on his colleagues, Larry, but he said a busy man: \"He is wearing two hats.\" I said,开什么玩笑you, he does not wear hats.
Larry has to answer to laugh, but Mr. how the wind blows, I do not know, they help me find the next level.
It turned out that Mr. Larry refers to the hospital sector as a key addition, there is his own business, Larry is to say to wear two hats, not really wear two hats.
4.With a grain of salt
Meals a day, a friend Allen and his wife of Chinese nationality坐在餐桌旁talk about recent popular herbal medicine, said it will guarantee to cure all diseases. Allen said the sentence: \"I\'d like to take it with a grain of salt\". His wife smiled: \"Do you think it is vegetables, ah, still needs to eat salt. Health experts can not say that we salt.\"
Allen paused, laughed and then sit back and explained that \"Take something with a grain of salt\" is \"a matter of reservations, skeptical\".
Allen had earlier said that he is such a magic herb expressed doubts about the efficacy and not to \"eat Xie Yan Fang.\"
(From \"World Journal\")
5.You are in for a treat!
That day, my colleagues and I are discussing a proposal to open Rhonda\'s birthday party thing, in order to respect the longevity, so we Rhonda and I chose an Italian restaurant. Rhonda recommendations to the town known as a BBQ restaurant in the United States. I have never been there, so she asked what characteristics are there. Rhonda began to reel off the signs of their dishes, I could hear Ten big move straight Yankou Shui, Rhonda then said with a smile: \"You are in for a treat!\" I stare blankly for a moment, Rhonda thought to invite me to Where to eat, felt very sorry, the test after she was asked, Rhonda said with a smile: \"You are in for a treat means you\'ll like it!\"
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(From \"World Journal\")
6. Chopsticks knife and fork
D said the other day a friend in a great restaurant for tea, see table, and there are young couples about to get to know them in a foreign woman drinking tea together. The old lady on the operation of chopsticks is very interested in learning to use chopsticks in the folder where the shrimp dumplings. D said that he had a friend of the United States has spent some time learning to use chopsticks in the right way, each have a chance to show what is necessary, also said that with chopsticks is a kind of art, is the ancient Chinese culture.
Chinese people eat with chopsticks, foreigners eat with knife and fork. In fact, no foreigners in the past knife and fork, use of wood chips is Xiao Cheng\'s cross. Mucha that spread to Istanbul from Italy by Britain, was stabbed two of the meat fork (two-pronged fork). Before that, people eat meat with their hands, so the meat fork to use some said that it was \"thanks to the five fingers were an insult to God.\"
Chopsticks also known as \"chopsticks\", said to be due to chopsticks with the same sound live. There are meant to stop living. To stop anti-ship, sail along the Jiangsu People\'s chopsticks called \"children chopsticks.\" Music Express with chopsticks, but can not fast, smooth carry on. Sino-Japanese chopsticks and chopsticks to make, but for the time hashi, and for the solution of the bridge hashi the same, and seems to be somewhat related to sail. Japanese have a saying, \"only to eat with chopsticks\" refers to \"reach out to tea, rice mouth opening.\" Chinese food on the table, will each have a spoon and chopsticks (zhuchi), a pair of chopsticks, spoons, and perhaps there will be no knife and fork so combative Right?
7.Skeleton in the closet
One day a friend talking about a big explosion, \"celebrity\" family scandal of the gossip press, said that in order to show off the human family \"skeleton in the closet\" for pleasure, are these the only people who really have the skeleton in the closet?
He said the \"skeleton in the closet\" (as the British are used to skeleton in the cupboard) is now the meaning is not so terrible. However, this idiom was said to have when those who did the murder of a wealthy family, the hidden skeleton in the closet, outsiders were not allowed to know, from this skeleton in the closet that has become the family secret, the phrase was used to Or not unwilling to refer outside Ugliness Yang\'s home, or for family skeleton. For example: Many old families have a number of skeletons in their closets which they are loath to discuss (many of the old family secret that many, they do not want to talk about these topics.)