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!?!?!"

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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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Pink slip,粉红色的小纸片?可别误以为是一封浪漫的情书呀,其实,pink slip是一种最残忍的东西——解雇通知书! Pink slip也叫做walking papers,可以追溯到

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学英语单词
a good keeper
address controller
al fashir (el fasher)
allertons
antenna area
Antilles Current
antineutrality
Artemia salina
article in wood
Asselian
associateship
backdropping
be capable of
belleau woods
Beloperone
Bezopasnoye
bilirubin diglucuronide
Biopar
blade entrance opening
broaches
bumpy air
calcium niobate
camarata
carpilius convexus
cash shortfall
Changalane
Cherchevski's
contolled
cul de lampes
cyclexanone
Damagum
Death Valley National Monument
derained
Dihydroscandenolide
Eucalyptus torelliana
fluid catalytic cracking
genus anaphaliss
giant arbor-vitae
Gray Thursday
haplosis
have a scrap with
hawkbill
Hemingwayesque
high leaded brass
high-capacity hydroelectric plant
Honorius
houndstooth checks
Hyostrongylus rubidus
ibogine
indemnify against
intermediate axis plane
internal discipline
Intrafax
jacqueline cochrans
kominkan
lawlike
liquid nitriding
livery drivers
low level jet condenser
marketing cost control
methodology of leadership
microwave relay link
mixed base crude oil
modulation polarography
multilength
mutual settlement
nearly saturated solution
OLIGOPLEURIDAE
osladin
out-smile
parliament-in-exile
paternalisms
piaton wrench
plastic capsule
polyimide fibre reinforcement
power station steam turbine
preservers
queueing mechanism
quinquertian
recirculating state
rock candy
ruddy
safety service
saucer-shaped wing
scolopidium
secondary electron image
ship-to-shore radio
small screw driver
special atmosphere oven
Spirochaeta pseudopallida
St-Amant-Tallende
stareth
statuarism
steam tapping
stenophagous animals
strontium hydrogen arsenate
tamil eelams
thallium ethide
the medium of exchange
tuberculin multiple puncture test
Ukunni
velocity-error constant