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　　#15/#16
　　 Singing the blues
　　 Wrong side of the tracks.
　　
　　Blues: (sufrering from the blues): melancholy, depression. Here "The Blues" refers to a genre of music--a form of Jazz started by black Americans. It is melancholic and employs the repeated use of "blue notes." (For those with musical training, blue notes are: "a variable microtonal lowering of the third, seventh, and occasionally fifth degrees of the major scale ." I have a link but it is one of those long drawn out URLs that causes a malfunction in the display of this page. Go to and type in "what are blue notes.")
　　
　　Singing the blues: Actually singing it, or metaphorically, "you are experiencing the blues." E.g. "Hey man, my girl left me, and I lost my job. I am left here all by myself singing the blues. "
　　
　　Wrong side of the tracks: Tracks: railroad tracks. Wrong side of the tracks means the bad side of a city or town where people of lower social-economic status live. In many U.S. cities in the old days--and even today--the railroad runs through the middle of a town. The downwind side (where the smoke from those old coal-fired steam engines will blow) is where the "poorer people" live. I was born on the wrong side of the tracks means I was born in a poor neighourhood, a crime-infested neighourhood, or a run-down neighourhood.
　　
　　The Grass looks browner: The father is making fun of the proverb "The grass always looks greener on the other side of the fence." Since the situation at hand is "the wrong side of the track", he changes it to "the grass looks browner...."
　　
　　
　　

　　#17 Ad Nauseum
　　 Ad nauseam is something that goes on ad infinitum, so much so, it makes you sick. (nauseating.)
　　
　　When you keep on doing something until the point people are sick about it, you are acting ad nauseam. An example given by several of the on-line dictionaries is: He played the song ad nauseam.
　　
　　Here is where it is important to use an E to E dictionary.
　　
　　Look at the slight difference between Lividict’s Chinese definition, Kingsoft’s Chinese definition, and English definitions:
　　
　　lookup/ad%20nauseam.html
　　
　　 ad nauseam
　　 < ad nau.se.am >
　　 <<副词>>
　　令人厌烦; 令人作呕
　　
　　Kingsoft: 令人作呕地
　　
　　 ad nauseam
　　 adv : to a sickening extent
　　
　　 to extreme degree: to an extreme or annoying extent
　　
　　 : to a sickening or excessive degree
　　
　　 To a disgusting or ridiculous degree; to the point of nausea.
　　
　　It is not just something that sickens people, but an action carried to an extend that it becomes sickening.
　　
　　

　　#19 (On) A slow boat to China.
　
　 China, the exotic land of mysteries, lies far far away in the mist in the East. In the days before jet liners, it would take weeks to get there by boat, much longer if it is a "slow boat." The expression "a slow boat to China" came to mean something that would take a long time to do. It also has a second meaning, and that is: "a relaxed, carefree and leisurely journey without being hurried."
　　
　　 Did the expression became popular because of the song made famous by Bing Crosby and Rose Mary Clooney? I don’t know. I heard the song before, long time ago.
　　
　　Example of use:
　　(quote) From:
　　frg/default.asp
　　Deadlines set for holiday mailings
　　
　　If you want make sure your holiday packages arrive to service members overseas on time, mail them by Nov. 13.
　　Otherwise, your package could very well be on the proverbial "slow boat to China," said Mark DeDomenic, chief of postal operations for the Military Postal Service Agency. (end quote)
　　
　　--->A sample (about 40 seconds worth) of this 1948 hit can be found at: kaykyser/music/ site) Or cut and paste this link: kaykyser/audio/T1/china.ram
　　
　　Lyrics and Midi: (Midi at ~dstephen/rainlane/slowboat.mid )
　　
　　Lyrics as found from the Internet:
　　On A Slow Boat to China
　　Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser
　　1948
　　
　　I’d love to get you
　　On a slow boat to China,
　　All to myself alone.
　　Get you to keep you in my arms evermore,
　　Leave all your lovers (lovelies)
　　Weeping on the faraway shore.
　　
　　Out on the briny
　　With the moon big and shiny,
　　Melting your heart of stone.
　　I’d love to get you
　　On a slow boat to China,
　　All to myself alone.
　　
　　

　　#20 cow jumps over the moon
　　
　　 The comic strip above makes fun of the line “The cow jumps over the moon.” from a nursery rhyme. (From what is known as the “Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes”)
　　
　　The Nursery rhyme is “Hey Diddle Diddle” and it goes like this:
　　
　　Hey diddle diddle,
　　the cat and the fiddle,
　　The cow jumped over the moon;
　　The little dog laughed to see such sport,
　　And the dish ran away with the spoon.
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　　 Children in English-speaking countries read these either as preschoolers or when they are in Kindergartens.
　　Many of these rhymes are put to song, such as Jack and Jill and Mary had a little lamb.
　　 I am sure many of you have heard of, or read Mary had a little lamb
　　Mary had a little lamb,
　　her fleece is white as snow,
　　and everywhere where Mary went
　　The lamb was sure to go.
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　　 The “pun” in the comics in on the word “moon.” Notice the cow is jumping over the butt of a naked man.
　　
　　 Moon and Mooning
　　
　　Moon is the slang for "the rear end" or to put it bluntly, your ass (arse). (Cantonese call that part of your anatomy the 八月十五 )
　　
　　 Mooning means showing your bottom as an act of defiance or disrespect.
　　(Dictionary definition: Slang. To expose one’s buttocks in public as a prank or disrespectful gesture.)
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　　(Picture below: "mooning" someone.

　　#21 Damn the Torpedoea;Full speed/steam ahead.

　　 This is a bit of Naval Americana, as often quoted as "I have not begun to fight !","Don’t give up the ship", and "You may fire when ready."
　　
　　 The expression "Damn the torpedoes , full steam ahead" is similar to 不顧槍林彈雨﹐ 勇往直前 in Chinese. This expression is often quoted in one of two forms: "full steam or full speed."
　　
　　 The torpedoes in this expression are not the type of torpedoes you see today; they are actually mines. The expression was supposed to have been uttered by the American Admiral David Glasgow Farragut, during their civil war.
　　
　　The following is quoted from: trivia/trivia02.htm
　　
　　(Start of quote)
　　Admiral David Glasgow Farragut (1801-1870). Aboard Hartford, Farragut entered Mobile Bay, Alabama, 5 August 1864, in two columns, with armored monitors leading and a fleet of wooden ships following. When the lead monitor Tecumseh was demolished by a mine, the wooden ship Brooklyn stopped, and the line drifted in confusion toward Fort Morgan. As disaster seemed imminent, Farragut gave the orders embodied by these famous words. He swung his own ship clear and headed across the mines, which failed to explode. The fleet followed and anchored above the forts, which, now isolated, surrendered one by one. The torpedoes to which Farragut and his contemporaries referred would today be described as tethered mines.
　　(End of quote)
　　

　　 Frog in Slowly Boiling Water.
　　
　　Read this morning in a newspaper: (2000/10/27)
　　...... When it comes to taxes, citizens tend to be like the proverbial frog in slowly boiling water. .—
　　
　　And recently (a few months ago)
　　From: New York Times by Elaine Shannon:" A SLOW IRAN SQUEEZE:" "The West’s plan, which is informally known to diplomats as being the frog strategy - (with no disrespect to the French), who were among its key tacticians. The name refers to the old saying, that if you want to boil a frog, you put the unsuspecting amphibian in a pot of cold water. "This time it will be an Iranian frog," says a European diplomat. "The strategy is to heat the water slowly and steadily and try to keep the frog unsuspecting inside the pot." US Secretary of States, Condoleezza Rice and her French, German, and British counterparts crafted this plan."
　　
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　　 (In Chinese: 不知危机将至
　　作者：S.H - 2000/10/28 09:11:25 *** 汉英 Forum
　　
　　水慢慢煮沸，青蛙丝毫不觉危机将至，如果快速煮沸的话，它一早就跳出来了。人类也一样，某些潜在危机不易觉察，知道时为时已晚，就像被煮熟的青蛙.
　　

　　#23 Sing Like a Canary

　　 "Sing" means "to squeal告密", "to spill the beans." Here is a comic strip with the phrase "sing" (sang like a canary.) When you "sing like a canary" to the authority you are telling them a lot of secrets.)
　　
　　Here is an interesting question from a Toefl site: ~yukna/ENG/lessons/crime.htm
　　2. When someone says that "he’ll sing like a canary" that means that:
　　A he’ll tell the police everything
　　B cry out from punishment
　　C he’s not very logical
　　D he’s got a high voice
　　
　　(Second comic strip to follow.)
　　

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