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Get your act together
action, organized together
Get your act together in time in the film, meaning that the actors, he must their own performance to the level of the other actors in order to meet their joint performances.
Now, the VOA Special English program WORDS AND THEIR STORIES.
is now the United States Slow vocabulary anecdotes sound programs.
Some of the most exciting information comes by way of the grapevine.
some of the most exciting news from the grapevine.
That is so because reports received through the grapevine are supposed to be secret. The information is all hush hush. It is whispered into your ear with the understanding that you will not pass it on to others.

This is so because the gossip is supposed to be secret information are secretive, it is whispered in your ear at the same time passed, by default you will not be passed on to others.
You feel honored and excited. You are one of the special few to get this information. You cannot wait. You must quickly find other ears to pour the information into. And so, the information – secret as it is – begins to spread. Nobody knows how far.
you feel honored and excited you are one of the few insiders and you can not wait, this must be news to others quickly so that the news – as extension of the secret began to spread. no one knows how far it pass.
The expression by the grapevine is more than one hundred years old.
by the grapevine (through the grapevine ) This phrase has been a hundred years of history.
The American inventor, Samuel F. Morse, is largely responsible for the birth of the expression. Among others, he experimented with the idea of ??telegraphy – sending messages over a wire by electricity.When Morse finally completed his telegraphic instrument, he went before Congress to show that it worked.He sent a message over a wire from Washington to Baltimore. The message was: “What hath God wrought?” This was on May twenty-fourth, eighteen forty-four.
American inventor Samu Er. Holmes (Samuel F. Morse) the birth of the phrase bear much of the responsibility which he carried the telegraph trial – send messages through the cable when Moss finally completed his telegraph device was demonstrated in Congress, he sent a cable from Washington to Baltimore a message. message content is: “what God has created a miracle? “This is the May 24, 1844.
Quickly, companies began to build telegraph lines from one place to another. Men everywhere seemed to be putting up poles with strings of wire for carrying telegraphic messages. The workmanship was poor. And the wires were not put up straight.
soon, the company began to build from one place to another that the telegraph lines. everywhere to see people pull in the plant poles for the transmission of telegraph messages due to poor quality of construction, the cable has not been straightened.
Some of the results looked strange. People said they looked like a grapevine. A large number of the telegraph lines were going in all directions, as crooked as the vines that grapes grow on. So was born the expression, by the grapevine.
results seem strange. People say that the cable looks like a vine. a lot of cable leading in all directions, like the vine after another of the same crooked so was born the phrase, by the grapevine.
Some writers believe that the phrase would soon have disappeared were it not for the American Civil War.
Some writers believe that, if not the United States Civil War, the phrase may soon disappear.
Soon after the war began in eighteen sixty-one, military commanders started to send battlefield reports by telegraph. People began hearing the phrase by the grapevine to describe false as well as true reports from the battlefield. It was like a game. Was it true? Who says so?

1861 years of civil war began shortly after the military battlefield commanders began to send telegrams. People began to hear used by the grapevine (from the front of the telegraph) described in this statement true or false, or battlefield. It like a trick, (the battlefield case) is that true? Who says so?
Now, as in those far-off Civil War days, getting information by the grapevine remains something of a game. A friend brings you a bit of strange news. “No,” you say, “it just can be true! Who told you?” Comes the answer, “I got it by the grapevine.”
Now, in the Civil War has long gone days, access to trail information still retains the flavor trick. a friend to bring you a strange message. “No,” you say, “This can not be true! Who told you? “He replied:” This is what I get gossip. “
You really cannot know how much – if any – of the information that comes to you by the grapevine is true or false. Still, in the words of an old American saying, the person who keeps pulling the grapevine shakes down at least a few grapes.
you do not really know the news through the trail to get the number, whether the information is true or false. or the United States, the old saying goes, shaking grapes Akira Fujimoto at least the next several grapes (which means a lot of gossip there are always true).
Glossary: ??
couch potato: used to describe like to spend a lot of time sitting or lying down watching TV, we called the “couch potato”, couch means the day bed couch, potato refers to potatoes, so the “couch potato” is actually is truly a “couch potato.” American idiom programs have a program on TV fans to make a detailed explanation: http://www.51voa.com/Voa_English_Learning/Learn_A_Word_22811.html

mouse potatoes: more used to describe those who spend a lot of time on the computer young people can be called “computer enthusiasts”.
cabin fever: seclusion disease (due to lack of external stimulation caused unpleasant or painful, such as living in a remote, sparsely populated area or a small, enclosed space)
empty nest: according to the literal meaning empty nest empty nest. birds building nest to lay eggs hatched twittering birds nest in a bird well-dad mother birds feeding on the next full-fledged birds flew from their parents have to live independently, leaving the father and mother jealously guarding the empty nest is empty nest. This idiom is often used to mean people lives, used to describe the child reaches maturity after the parents left the home of the lonely feelings
● Do not look now dog coddled noble, but there are still a large number of unmanned care of stray dogs live a very miserable life. This phenomenon is also derived from the phrase “to lead a dog life”, to describe people live impoverished, miserable life, for example: Tom been leading a dog life since he got divorced. (Tom from down and out after the divorce has been living a chaotic day.)
● dog Wenshun You have always been considered a good animal. Because of this, “dog eat dog” was even more brutal. a place where “dog eat dog” world, we can imagine how intense a competition, ruthless world. “dog-eat-dog world” is described as ruthless competition in the world.
● Chinese language describe a person to work hard, most cattle, Malay metaphor, English is used to represent a dog. phrase “work like a dog” means a person effort, sacrifice their lives to work.
● “dog-tired “The image of the word quite exhausted, tired and about to get on the ground to the air sketched out. Imagine a dog sticking out his tongue at the time of fatigue, lying paralyzed on the floor of cute,” dog-tired “to describe the scene vivid and colorful.
● dog friends all know, dogs eat the wrong thing once, the reaction is very intense. phrase “sick as a dog” is the story evolved from this, that very ill Here the meaning of “disease”, tend to eat due to illness, such as stomach pain, vomiting, and so on.
● “Every dog ??has its days.” proverb is now more known “Everyone has their own luck / day each person has turned the corner.” optimistic and positive attitude of this modern social life is most needed.
● “You can / can never teach an old dog a new trick. “Jacuzzi translated as” old-timer can not learn new things “.” an old dog “here refers not want to change their minds, the old-fashioned people. The careful reader will find friends.” Crazy English spoken version of “March 2009 issue of the” life Liaoba “column appeared in a” You can teach an old dude a new trick. “expressing the same meaning.
● As mentioned above, many dogs unattended is very poor living environment, such as “junkyard dogs”, that is, the dogs live in the garbage, they usually look fierce, once discovered that someone close to their territory, will be full alert. imaginary that, if a dog has vicious than this cruel, he cold, inaccessible, estimated to have already reached the limit of. “meaner than a junkyard dog” will be used to describe the cruel, cold person.
● We often say that saying the “sharp tongue, a soft heart” in English can also be used “His bark is worse than his bite. (Although he screamed fierce, but does not bite.)” to that.
< br /> ● In Europe we often see on movies or TV shows, usually in the yard dogs have their own special corner of the world – the dog house (doghouse). But when the “doghouse” was introduced in the marital relationship, there is no So wonderful a and if your wife tells you “You e in the doghouse!” then you should make yourself what you really want to know what was going wrong, have suffered such a “cold” the.
● “let sleeping dogs lie” As the name suggests, is not to wake sleeping dogs. awakened the sleeping dog, but very serious consequences, so this phrase can be extended to “not looking for trouble, ask for” the meaning.
● If you do not know, “dog days” how to say in English, so from now to remember the simplicity of “the dog days of summer” in this phrase it! refers to the year he is the hottest time.
● “rain cats and dogs” as “the next heavy rain” solution, many people are not familiar with, but talking about the source, but it is mixed word of which the most by spectrum is a saying that “the voice of thunder rang the voice of a fight like cats and dogs”.
the nuts and bolts of an organization refers to the basic and necessary component of which is the organization to part of normal operation.
At first, swan song (Swan Song) is a poet, musician or writer last works now, it can also refer to any person a final effort. a person “Masterpiece “often considered his best work.
1 Do not bad mouth me.
Do not say bad things about me. Mouth here a verb, means “someone said bad things.” For example: I won bad mouth Jay even if it kills me. killed I do not say bad things about Jay.
2 I really put my foot in my mouth this time.
Put one foot in one mouth this phrase means say something embarrassing, make a faux-pas (slip of the tongue, something wrong) When you say should not say when, suddenly realized that you said something wrong, they will say, for example: “I certainly put my foot in my mouth at the party last night when I asked Mister Brown to say hello to his wife for me. Somehow I forgotten that his wife died six months ago. “He said:” I last night at a party accidentally slip of the tongue. I asked Mr. Brown to his wife for me to say hello. I do not know how, I forgot his wife had died six months ago. “
3 down in the mouth
Down in the mouth is a colloquial meaning is” depressed, dejected. “For example: Why do you look so down in the mouth? (Why do you look so depressed?) She gets down in the mouth over the least little thing. (she was quick to depression.) similar phrases as well down in the dumps, but also to describe depression. < br />
4 Do not put words in my mouth
this phrase means “for someone to say you think he should say, the words imposed on a person “. I never mentioned going away for a holiday: don put words into my mouth. (I never mentioned the last resort: I do not impose this case!) Now you e putting words into my mouth. When did I say anything about moving? (you is imposed, when I said I move things?)
5 word of mouth / by word of mouth < / strong>
Word of mouth is what we often say “word of mouth”. By word of mouth is that people pass through one to ten, one hundred of the mouth means that something, that is, by the word of mouth, we tell you the meaning, for example: A: This restaurant is so small, but it always crowded. How did you find out about it? B: I heard by word of mouth that they had great food. (A : This restaurant is very small, but always fully booked. how do you know this restaurant? B: I was by word of mouth people know they sell something good to eat.)
6 mouthpiece
Mouthpiece intended to refer to (musical instruments, pipes, etc.) sing, part of the title in the mouth, near the mouth of some, the idea was the mouthpiece, spokesman , organ, for example: The newspaper is the mouthpiece of the government. (The newspaper is the government organ.)
7 You took the words right out of my mouth
Take the words right out of one mouth means “to say someone wanted to say, views coincide.” For example: A: Did you see that girl in our English class. She is really beautiful. B: You took the words right out of my mouth. (A: Do you see the girl in English class on it? She can be really beautiful. B: I was going to say.)
8 left a bad taste in my mouth
Leave a bad taste in one mouth this phrase means “leave a bad impression.” For example: Her rudeness to the old man left a bad taste in my mouth. (she rude attitude of the old man, left me a bad impression.) Also, leave a nasty taste in one mouth can also express the same meaning.
9 I had my heart in my mouth
Have / bring one heart in one mouth is something people are very afraid, like heart was referred to the throat, for example: I had my heart in my mouth when the other car ran through the red light and I knew we were about to crash. (when I saw that car ran a red light, I knew we had to crash when my heart almost jump throats.) express similar meaning t-phrase there: make one heart leap out of his mouth, one heart stood still and so on.
10 a person, “was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.”
Born with a silver spoon in his mouth means a life in a very wealthy family, do not use to find work outside to earn a living. This argument comes from Europe, a rich past practice when parents take the name of a newborn baby when they hold a religious ceremony in the ceremony, they give The children do a silver spoon, for example: I l tell you the good thing about our boss. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and doesn have to work at all. But he really works harder than anybody in the office. (I l tell you the advantages of our boss, who was born in a wealthy family; he did not need work, but he worked very hard, really more than anyone else in the office to work harder.)

11live from hand to mouth
this phrase means “only a living, make ends meet make ends meet”, that is, we say “home free Gesu grain, now make is to eat. “such as: He got very little pay so he lived from hand to mouth. (so he can only make ends meet because of the meager salary.)
12 a mouthy child < / strong>
a multi words like a child. Mouthy do adjective meaning someone who talks a lot and says what he thinks even if it is rude to mean “lied” or “love speak, talkative “.
13 stop mouthing off
this phrase means” Do not nonsense. “For example, If you don stop your mouth off, I won tell you anything in the future. (If you do not stop the nonsense, since I did not tell you.)
14 running my mouth
Run one mouth means to talk excessively or foolishly (said too much, big mouth). Here the authors say this means he has enough.
Note 1) To talk through one hat is the meaning of this saying: the speaker that he did not understand, so if he is actually nonsense. This saying is from Two hundred years ago a presidential campaign in 1888, the New York board of a newspaper cartoon, satire was running for President Benjamin Harrison Harrison often wore a high hat, so he cartoonist draw a very large hat, even his face to cover up. comic note below, when Harrison campaign speech, he is through his hat to the audience to speak, that is, he is talking nonsense. However, Harrison was elected in that election as U.S. president.
sentences: Anybody who says we can balance the budget without raising taxes is just talking through his hat.
asked: “Anyone who says we can not raise taxes in the case of the balanced budget, then it is really nonsense. “
Note 2) keep something under one hat . It means keep something secret, something that is concealed, we can understand the phrase literally: Friends Think, if we put something in the hat, or put something under the hat so to be on the cover, is it not “hide” the meaning of it?
sentences: Greg leaked information about his company to a competitor for getting more pay. Although he tried to keep it under his hat, finally, his boss found out and called the police.
translation: Greg to get a lot of money, they reveal company information to competitors, although he tried to hide, but eventually found his boss was reported to the police.
Note 3) old hat banal things, out of date things; very familiar or good at things, the expert
Note 4) a wolf in sheep clothes dressed in sheep clothing
sentences: He is a wolf in sheep clothing, outwardly kind but inwardly vicious!
asked: He is a wolf in sheep clothing, appearance, kind, heart vicious!
Note 5 ) decked out dress brilliant
Note 6) be dressed to the nines very beautiful dress, wearing a gorgeous, wearing very particular about. to the nines, said perfect
sentences: The girls were dressed up to the nines and went to the party.
asked: girls all dressed up, went to dinner.
Note 7) Dress to the Teeth = dressed elegantly
with the Chinese phrase “armed to the teeth” with the same purpose, that someone took great pains dressing up.
sample dialogue:
A: Did you see Hilda at the party last night?
B: Yes, I did. She was really dressed to the teeth!
A: Well, she had on her finest, most elegant clothing because she was out to make a good impression on Bill.
Note be dressed to kill dress up and dress fashionable. Dressed to kill is certainly not meant to wear tights buckle down to kill the masked acts; dressed to kill used to refer to pay attention to put on a gorgeous or the trendy new clothing steal the show, some people may not understand the origins of this idiom.
One explanation is met with such a beautiful dress makes dumping ecstasy. People often say that someone dressed to kill The implication is that people dressed in order to attract the attention of the opposite sex. For example, in the following example the speaker in to talk to his girlfriend that his brother Pete dating dress.
sentences: Pete usually wears jeans and a T-shirt. But last night it was hard to recognize him – he was dressed to kill because he finally got a date with that blond he admired for so long.
translation: Pete usually wear jeans and old T-shirts, but last night, you simply will not recognize him, he dressed very handsome, because he has long been attracted to Miss Jin Fa who finally agreed to go out with him dating.
Note 9) birthday suit is the usual Anglo-American, especially the United States a very humorous slang, commonly used for “complete nakedness (naked)” as a euphemism, which itself is a metaphor of sorts onto the ground when the naked scene.
Note 10) handle with kid gloves flexible, gentle, careful treatment. Glove is a glove, and the kid here refers to lamb, so the kid gloves is the kid gloves this glove is very soft and smooth, wearing kid gloves to touch derived from playing the kind of untouchable presumably, the object must be doubly careful of course, handle with kid gloves as the term is used as an analogy of.
sentence: She is very sensitive about the subject.You will have to handle her with kid gloves.
asked: her sensitive to that issue committee, you are her must be cautious.
Note 11) fit like a glove (size, shape) entirely appropriate, just fit
Note 12) burst at the seams burst, too full, too crowded
Note 13) hand-me-down and others do not spread to the old people or something, especially a left to the brother and sister clothes
Note 14) live on a shoestring had a very frugal life, relying on very little money to live, living an austere life
Note 15) the shoe is on the other foot the situation is completely different, not what
Note 16) walk in someone shoes to wear someone else walking shoes, idea was to put ourselves, appreciate others, the same experience
Note 17) ride someone coattails is a literal meaning tuxedo pressing others, the idea was to use and successful people relations to achieve their goals, to be successful.
Note 18) If the shoe fits, wear it. If you are really going to admit it / If you think is right to do it.
carry a chip on your shoulder (ready to quarrel, fight the way).
sweetheart deal: private transactions.
< br /> blue chip company: blue-chip companies
banker hours: Banker is a banker about 30 years ago, banks are open for business in the short, from the morning ten o lock in the afternoon two or three over, bankers to work every day four or five hours, so popular that people began to say with the banker hours specific to cozy and comfortable work.
cut corners: cost savings; cold calls: telemarketing calls; hard sells: hard sell, hard sell.
at a loss: a loss; cut backs: cut spending and reduce costs; broke even: balance of payments; gain ground: to grow and win a place. selling like hotcakes: selling hot
in the black: surplus; in the red loss, a deficit. usually on the financial statements black font that surplus, red loss.
big gun: VIP; take it public: listing.
to strike while the iron is hot: build on the progress; ball park estimate : general estimates. ball park is a baseball field, baseball field specifications of the United States different, when it comes to baseball field size is usually a rough estimate, resulting in the habit of saying.
in black and white: black and white; < strong> get a break: good luck, turned the corner; bang for the buck: Value for money.
to attract his attention (catch his eye)
him she tried to ogle (make eyes at him, give him the eye).
very surprised (hit between the eyes).
eyes were shining with happiness (with stars in her eyes).
eyes belly small (eyes might be bigger than his stomach), (that is, hungry)
phenomenal men can answer (raised eyebrows)
the same view (see eye to eye).
“long with eyes on the back of the head “(eyes in the back of his head). In other words, if not see, know someone what to do.