Bad apple
A：Oh,my God!What happened?Why are you black and blue?
B：I got beaten by Peter’s brother.
A：That’s a bad apple!Let’s think up a way and teach him a lesson.
Bad apple means:坏蛋
2
A：Give the skates to me!
B：You shut up!
A：If you don’t know how to skate,why don’t you give the skates to me?Don’t be a dog in the manger.
A dog in the manger:占着茅坑不拉屎的人；占有有利条件
却不会利用的人
3
A：It’s strange they should get along so well!
B：That’s nothing unusual.
A：You don’t know much about the couple.One likes to be alone,but the other is a bit of a gay dog.
A gay dog:快活的人
4：
why the super star is so cool?
cos he has a lot of fans
5:
why mother is closer to you than father?
cos father is farther
6
A：Bob refused all his classmate’s invitations.
B：I really couldn’t understand him.
A：He’s surely a hard nut,nobody likes approaching him.
B：We’d better also leave him alone.
A hard nut:冥顽不化的人；无知无觉的人
A：Aunt is scolding uncle again.
B：Don’t worry.Your uncle won’t utter a word back.
A：I didn’t know my uncle is a hen-pecked husband
B：He isn’t.He thinks it’s not necessary to quarrel with women.
a hen-pecked husband妻管严；怕老婆的男人
A：Do you know Mr.Smith?
B：No,but I know of him.He’s a big shot in the local politics.
A：I’m told he’s only a yes-man.
B：Yes,I hate that.At present,what we want is a strong,independent leader,not a bunch of yes-man.
Big shot:要人
