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Definition: Shorthand for feelings. 感动、打动、走心Origin: The word "feels" was popularized by the Internet slang expression "I know that feel bro". In 2012, Urban Dictionary submitted an entry for "feels" defining it as a shorthand for the word "feelings.

Origin: Of the best quality; of the highest social standing.  Meaning: The 'drawer' in question here is the highest drawer of a bedroom chest of drawers. This was where Victorians in England kept their most valuable items - jewelry, best clothes.

Definition: A knight in shining armor is an heroic, idealized male who typically comes to the rescue of a female. 真命天子，白马王子；救星。

Definition: To Get down to work and apply oneself earnestly,Origin: From the game of marbles, where you're knuckles are touching the ground and you shoot a marble with your thumb. 从弹珠游戏而来，意指投入地、认真地做事，下功夫。

Definition: 1. The first meaning is of a point (physical, decisional, etc.) beyond which one will proceed no further.2. The second meaning once the decision to go beyond it is made, the decision and its resulting consequences are permanently decided and irreversible.

Origin: The allusion is to the inexperience of a baby, so recently born as to be still wet. 这个习惯用语流行至今差不多有一个世纪了。它可能来自这样的说法: 小马、小牛刚生下来的时候全身湿漉漉的；别的地方很快会干，但是耳朵背后却还是湿的。所以说某人耳朵背后是潮的，是把这人比作刚生下不久的婴儿了。换句话说就是他简直像新生儿一般幼稚无知。

Definition: A gesture in which the palm of one's hand is brought to one's face, as an expression of disbelief, shame, or exasperation.Origin: According to Macmillan Dictionary, the word "facepalm" first appeared around 2006. Perhaps the most notorious example comes from the sci-fi series Star Trek: The Next Generation. An image of Jean-Luc Picard, played by Patrick Stewart, expressing frustration using this gesture has become a famous.

Definition: To make a mistake or to disappoint.Origin: This expression comes from sports where a player who fails to catch a ball is charged with an error. Its use for more general kinds of mistakes dates back to the 1950s.

Definition: To say that someone means one thing when the person really meant something else.

Definition: To react to sth that sb has said or done by suddenly speaking to them angrily.猛烈的回击某人，对...发火，愤怒反驳