Academic redshirting

兩年前，在cnn有讀到有關 redshirting的報導，最近聽雨晴在講想讓她的孩子晚讀一年，所以我又把那一篇翻出來讀一讀。順便幾個專有名詞也複習一遍。
Academic redshirting: The practice of postponing an age-eligible child's kindergarten entry by a year, typically one whose birthday is very close to the cut-off date. Academic redshirting is often done in order to provide some extra time for social, intellectual or physical maturation.

In rare cases, a child may be academically redshirted in order to give him the advantage of an extra year's development when playing sports in high school.

Also Known As: holding out a year; delayed school entry; postponed kindergarten entrance

cutoff day
on the cusp
someone who was born on the cusp was born near the time when one star sign ends and another begins

Good Luck Charlie S01E24

French fries, potato chips and onion rings a la mode.

à la mode  

à la mode /ˌæ lə ˈməud, ˌɑː laː- US -ˈmoud/ adj, adv
AmE served with ice cream

MOM:I went to a psychic once. She was dead on about me, 

    said I was gonna be famous. 

Teddy:But that hasn't come true. 

Mom:Yet.

dead-on (dĕd′ôn′, -ŏn′)

adj. Informal

Precisely accurate and to the point

Okay, visiting grandma after she had the fat sucked out of her butt. Is not a vacation.

vibe /v'aɪb/ (vibes)
[N-COUNT] usu pl
Vibes are the good or bad atmosphere that you sense with a person or in a place. (INFORMAL)

I am getting a very powerful vibe from you.

he was like some kind of con man.

A con man is a man who persuades people to give him their money or property by lying to them.

Let's go to my favorite channel,the bill channel.

Oh mama! I don't have that kind of money.

Looks like you're in quite a pickle...
which, by the way, are $8.

Mom and dad are gonna ground me forever.

Sure, honey. Why are you all dolled up?

Because I think I may have met the love of my life.

If a woman dolls herself up, she puts on smart or fashionable clothes in order to try and look attractive for a particular occasion. (INFORMAL)

Um, honey. I want you to brace yourself.

If you brace yourself for something unpleasant or difficult, you prepare yourself for it.

I know I'm putting up a brave front,裝做很勇敢的樣子

But I'm really hurting.但我真的很受傷

toss a salad

(=mix it all together, usually with a dressing) 

Okay, I see you have that scared look in your eye.

And you're probably gonna bolt any second,

So before you do that,Can we just start over?

bolt

to suddenly run somewhere very quickly, especially in order to escape or because you are frightened

Now chop chop and get me my lobster.

chop-chop  (chŏp′chŏp′)

adv. Informal

Right away; quickly.

Indie

However, Reeves's choices after A Walk in the Clouds failed with critics and audiences. Big-budget films such as the sci-fi action film Johnny Mnemonic and the action-thriller Chain Reaction were critically panned and failed at the box office, while indie films like Feeling Minnesota were also critical failures. Reeves finally started to climb out of his career low after starring in the horror-drama The Devil's Advocate alongside Al Pacino andCharlize Theron. 

Indie films are produced by small independent companies rather than by major studios. (mainly BRIT)

If something such as a film or a book is panned by journalists, they say it is very bad. (INFORMAL)

Good Luck Charlie S0107

get old 變無聊
Get real old, real fast 很快就腻了
something getting old is used to mean that you are getting sick of the thing and don't want to do it anymore. Might be boring, might be annoying, might be physically tiring, but for whatever reason, you definitely don't want to be doing it any more.

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A jingle is a short tune used in advertising and for other commercial uses.

a catchy tune or phrase is easy to remember

someone who is psychic has the ability to know what other people are thinking or what will happen in the future

A mug shot is a photograph of someone, especially a photograph of a criminal which has been taken by the police. (INFORMAL)

fraternize with
to be friendly with someone, especially if you have been ordered not to be friendly with them

Arbor Day (植樹節) - Tree Planting Day 

So I guess the polka number's out? 

knock yourself out

please begin doing it

run circles around someone

• It supports a ton of formats including ePub, PDF, MOBI, TXT, HTML, CBZ, CBR, and various image formats like JPEG and PNG. PDF handling is definitely best in class and runs circles around the Kindle.

run circles around someone and run rings around someone

Fig. to outrun or outdo someone. (Alludes to someone who runs fast enough to run in circles around a competitor and still win the race.) John is a much better racer than Mary. He can run circles around her. Mary can run rings around Sally.

You can even adjust things like screen time outs and how frequently the device refreshes to cut down on ghosting.

Brookline Police Sgt. Douglas Barnett said Hamilton was southbound on Route 13 preparing to turn left when a truck driven by 31-year-old Greg Cullen of Milford hit the rear of her car and sent it into the northbound lane. She was then broadsided by a Ford F-250 pick-up truck driven by 37-year-old James Ciprotti of Weare. Neither man was injured.

broadside--especially AmE to crash into the side of another vehicle