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Here are some American expressions that may come in handy:

1.You took the words right out of my mouth       گل گفتی_منم همینو می خواستم بگم

example:_ Look at that prep, he's such a snob!

            _You took the words right out of my mouth!

2.Be up to sth             در فکر انجام کاری بودن_برنامه ای در سر داشتن

example:_what are you up to for today bro?

             _Just chilling

3.What's got into you?          تو چت شده؟

example:_There are five typing errors on the first page alone.What's got into you?

            _Sorry,sir.

4.Take one's mind off sth       به چیزی فکر نکردن

example:_Come on,Ross!you,me,Joey,ice,guys' night out,come on,what do you say,big guy huh?

            _Alright,maybe it'll take my mind off it.

5.Go through hell          پدر کسی درآمدن

example:_I went through hell last night and it was my fault cause I let people do it to me.

6.Make lame excuses          عذر و بهانه ی بیجا آوردن

example:_So you're Julie's date,huh?

            _No,I'm just...I just came here,I was looking for an owl,

            _Ha ha,you don't have to make lame excuses.

7.You are sure you're cool with this?         مطمئن هستی برات مشکلی نداره؟

example:_So the party starts at 7.You could be at my dad's house by 6?

            _Sure.

            _You're sure you're cool with this?

            _Are you kidding me?

8.Get sth straight           مسئله ای رو روشن کردن

example:_Look,there's smoke.That's his herd right up the hill.We should return him.

            _Let's get something straight here,ok?There is no "we".There never was a "we".

9.Break it up            تمومش کنین

example:_Are you telling me what I'm gonna be doing here,numb-nuts?

            _You heard me.

            _Hey,hey,hey,come one,break it up!

10.Look blue          خیلی غمگین به نظر رسیدن

example:_Hey,where are you going?

            _Nowhere

            _Gee!He looks blue.

            _I'd say brownish-gold.

            _No,no,no.I mean he's depressed!

When I was born, I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.       Gracie Allen

 I'm not afraid to die.  I just don't want to be there when it happens.         Woody Allen

 The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.          Anonymous

 Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.         Aristotle

 We are what we repeatedly do.          Aristotle

 The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.       Sir Francis Bacon

 An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.         Orlando A. Battista

 When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.       Alexander Graham Bell

 Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory.        Ingrid Bergman

 Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.   Otto von Bismarck

 The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.          Jacques Bossuet

 Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.         Winston Churchill

 I believe in luck; how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?       Jean Cocteau

 It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.        Charles Darwin

 Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.   Alexandre Dumas