When sending a text message and the recipient of the message was not the intended recipient. Alternatively, when you try to reply to one person, and another message comes in just as you're about to reply, and you end up replying to the wrong person. This issue can have detrimental effects.
> Girl to married guy: "Hey, what are you up to?"
> (Guy is getting ready to reply, when he's distracted for two seconds, during which time, the following message hits his phone."
> Wife to her husband: "I made it to Dallas."
> (Now husband, thinking he's replying to his girlfriend says)
> Husband to his wife (slip of the thumbs): "Nothing, my wife is out of town if you want to sleep over tonight."
> Wife to husband: "WTF!?!?!"

Lesson 89 slip of the tongue 口误 First listen and then answer the question. 听录音,然后回答以下问题。 Who made the only funny joke that evening and why? People will do anything to see

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green thumb all thumbs 我们今天要给大家介绍的两个习惯用语都和我们的大拇指有关。大拇指在英文里是:thumb。 每个人手上都有两个大拇指,而且天天都用它

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Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? Now the VOA Learning English program Words and Their Stories. Each week we explore the meaning and origin of American English expressions. Today, I want you to look at your hand. The hand is an amazing tool. With it, we huma

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今天我们要学的词是thumbs-up。 Thumbs-up, 是翘大拇指,表示满意和赞赏。 The movie got a thumbs-up from the critics, 这部影片得到了影评人的好评。 Her performance was given a thumbs-up by her coach, 她的表演得到了

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今天我们要学的词是thumbs-up。 Thumbs-up, 是翘大拇指,表示满意和赞赏。 The movie got a thumbs-up from the critics, 这部影片得到了影评人的好评。 Her performance was given a thumbs-up by her coach, 她的表演得到了

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今天我们要学的词是 thumbs-down. Thumbs-down 名词,有反对的意思。German Chancellor Angela Merkels conservatives lost in two out of three regional state elections as German voters gave a thumbs-down to her refugee policy. 德国总理默

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abatjour
abu-ghazaleh
according to Cocker
acoustoelastic response
after plating
afterward limit of center of gravity
air leakage factor
american barberries
anti-bottom quarks
appleringie
asteromphalus cleveanus
bahia laura
baldur
beach soccer
bed rock price
bismuth naphtholate
blister beetles
brown paradox
butyrous colony
buzz kill
cafe royale
can-food sealing
clean billbought
corsetings
cost distortions
deperm
dual-pressure cycle
electric multipole radiation
euchymy
Every Jack shall have his Jill
extensional equality
exulceratio simplex
file transfer protocols (ftp)
flask molding
fluid-level measurement
flying levels
Foitzik photoelectric photometer
Fond du Lac R.
for reference only
Geisig
gendron
Gentiana kwangsiensis
haulage system
ice-snow physics
ideal conditions
infinite induction
international remittance and exchange
kalamiss
klimts
LAN broadcast address
Limanti
love-craft
make a fresh start
Manwich
minooka
Nancy Mitford
neovestitol
neura
neutron per adsorption
nitrocymene
pad eye
Paranan
pelargonium hortorum bailey
phyllogenous
physical roentgen equivalent
pipe file
platform framing
polarization direction correlation
polypomorphic
pontifices
program segment size
programcontrolled
programmable logic module
proposed building
protective therapy
protein globules
quacked
rail-clamp
rasorite
receiver queue
reciprocal impedance
recruitee
river-bed scouring
sanitary napkins
sex equality
skymiles
snow chute
staged combustion cycle
Stann Creek
superspeed film
supervene with
superWIMP
sworn broker
traffic station
Tretolite
vacuum response
varnish linseed oil
Vernonia divergens
water telescopes
wee
Willy Pete