John 3Sixteen English

Phrases in context

useful a bit useful offend positive negative

1. a back-seat driver ယာဉ်မောင်းနားကပ် ဆရာလုပ်သူ
2. a blabbermouth အာချောင်သူ a person who talks too much. esp. tattletale
3. a bookworm စာကြမ်းပိုး a person unusually devoted to reading and study
4. a bum ticker (US sl) အားနည်းတဲ့နှလုံး a bad heart. My uncle has a bum ticker.
5. ‌a chip off the old block (idm) ဒီပုတ်ထဲက ဒီပဲ၊ ဘမျိုးဘိုးတူ people who closely resemble their parents in some way. Mark just won the same sailboat race his father won twenty years ago; he's a chip off the old block
6. a clip joint (sl) ဈေးကြီးနှိပ်တဲ့ အပေါစား စားသောက်ဆိုင် a place of public entertainment (such as a nightclub) that makes a practice of defrauding patrons (as by overcharging) 2.a business that makes a practice of overcharging
7. a close call ပွတ်ခါသီကာ၊ သီသီကလေးလွတ်ခြင်း something bad that almost happened. A bus almost knocked me off. It was a close call. Thank God.
8. a dog-eat-dog world ဇာတ်တူသားစားလောက It's a dog-eat-dog world out there
9. a due date မွေးမယ့်ရက်
10. a 50-50 chance သူမသာ ကိုယ်မသာ။ ဖြစ်နိုင်ချေ ၅၀ %
11. a grease monkey မော်တော်ကားပြင်သူ mechanic
12. a hard/tough nut (to crack) (idm) နားလည်ဖို့ခက်ခဲ a person or thing that is difficult to deal with, understand, or influence. The team's defense is a tough nut to crack.
13. a has-been (infml, Brit) တစ်ခါက ရွှေထီးဆောင်းခဲ့ one that has passed the peak of effectiveness or popularity
14. a heart-to-heart talk ရင်းရင်းနှီးနှီးပြောကြမယ်
15. a hit ဟစ်ဖြစ်သွားတယ်
16. a hustler မသမာသူ one who obtains money by fraud or deceit syn: scammer, swindler.
17. a kick up the arse/backside/the pants etc (infml) ဝေဖန်ပြစ်တင်၊ ပယ်ချ What Phil needs is a good kick up the arse
18. a knick-knack တိုလီမိုလီ၊ ဗြုတ်စဗျင်းတောင်း
19. a knockout အလှဲထိုးခြင်း the act of knocking out၊ 2.ချောလှသူ a sensationally striking, appealing, or attractive person or thing
20. a late bloomer ဖွံ့ဖြိုးမှု နှေးကွေးသူ
21. a lemon အသုံးမတည့်၊ အရောင်းမစွံကုန်ပစ္စည်း something (such as an automobile) that is unsatisfactory or defective
22. a long shot ကံစွပ်ကံညား စွန့်ရမယ့်ကိစ္စ an attempt or guess that has only the slightest chance of succeeding or being accurate. It's a long shot, but well worth trying
23. a lowdown အဖြစ်မှန်ကိုယ်တွေ့ the inside facts
24. a lump sum တစ်လုံးတစ်ခဲတည်း Second, lump sum payments are worked out on the basis of an assumed life expectancy
25. a melting pot သဗ္ဗနံပေါင်းရောကျိုရာ a place or situation in which people or ideas of different kinds gradually get mixed together. London is now a culinary melting pot.
26. a nest egg စုဆောင်းငွေ (idm) I have a little nest egg that I'm saving for college.
27. a nightcap အိပ်ရာဝင်တစ်ခွက်
28. a pad အိမ်ခန်း
29. a pain in the arse ဂြိုဟ်ကောင် = a pain in the ass.
30. a pep talk အားပေးစကားပြော a usually brief, intense, and emotional talk designed to influence or encourage an audience. The coach gave the team a pep talk before the game
31. a piece of cake အလွယ်လေး၊ အပျော့
32. a pigsty ညစ်ပစ်ရှုပ်ပွသောနေရာ
33. a quack (infml derog) ဒေါက်တာရမ်းကု၊ ဆေးပညာမတတ်ဘဲ တတ်မြောက်ကျွမ်းကျင်လေဟန် အယောင်ဆောင်သူ၊ ရမ်းကု
34. a race against time အမောတကော လုပ်ရမယ့်အချိန် a situation in which something must happen or be done quickly because little time is available. It's a race against time to get the building finished before the rainy season sets in.
35. a raw deal မတရားမှု an instance of unfair treatment
36. a road hog အမောင်းရမ်းသူ a driver of an automotive vehicle who obstructs others especially by occupying part of another's traffic lane
37. a round ( of drinks ) တစ်ခွက်စီ လူစေ့တက်စေ့ တစ်လှည့် usually said on someone who purchases alcoholic beverages for a group of people. It's my birthday! The first round of drinks is on me!
38. a scam လှည့်ကွက် a fraudulent or deceptive act or operation
39. a 6th sense အကြားအမြင် a special ability to know something without using any of the five senses that include sight, touch, etc. My sixth sense told me to stay here and wait
40. a social butterfly လူစုံပွဲစုံဝင်ဆံ့သူ
41. a sore loser ရှုံးမဲမဲသူ
42. a sourpuss ပြုံးခဲသူ a person who complains frequently or constantly and looks unhappy : grump, grouch
43. a southpaw ဘယ်သန်၊ ဘယ်ကျော်
44. a stuffed shirt ထည်ဝါလွန်းသူ a smug, conceited, and usually pompous person often with an inflexibly conservative or reactionary attitude
45. a thick skin အရေထူ/မနာတတ် an ability to keep from getting upset or offended by the things other people say and do. She has pretty thick skin when it comes to criticism
46. a vile act of betrayal ခွေးကျင့်ခွေးကြံ. How dare you spoil an innocent girl like that! It is a vile act of betrayal.
47. a wet blanket ဖျက်မြင်း (ကဖျက် ကဖျက်သမား) one that quenches or dampens enthusiasm or pleasure
48. a white elephant (idm) အကုန်ကျများပြီး အသုံးမဝင် . She believes the development may become a white elephant that fails to attract suitable tenants
49. a white lie (idm) စေတနာမုသား . A little white lie is surely excusable.
50. a wild-goose chase (idm) ရွှေသမင်အလိုက်မှား a wild or absurd search for something nonexistent or unobtainable. Her scheme of being a movie star is a wild-goose chase. I had been on a wild goose chase this whole morning searching them in the entire house
51. absent-minded မေ့တတ်သော
52. admonish ဆိုဆုံးမ You can admonish a selfish man
53. all and sundry ခုနှစ်ရက်သားသမီး . I made tea for all and sundry at the office.
54. all of a sudden ဆိုင်းမဆင့်ဗုံမဆင့်။ ဖြုန်းခနဲ၊ ရုတ်ခနဲ suddenly. All of a sudden we heard an unearthly cry
55. all over the place နေရာအနှံ့ everywhere 2.ပရမ်းပတာ၊ ရှုပ်ထွေးသော အခြေအနေတွင် in a disorganized or confused state. We've been all over the place looking for you. The government is all over the place on this
56. all thumbs (idm) တစ်ဦးတစ်ယောက်ရဲ့ လက်တွေက လှုပ်ရှားမှုမှာ အချိုးမကျဘဲ ကချော်ကချွတ်နိုင်တယ် awkward, clumsy. Walter tried to fix the broken table but couldn’t. He was all thumbs.
57. ambiguous ဒွိဟဖြစ်စေသော။ အနက်မပြတ်သားသော။ မရေရာသော။ မပြတ်သားသော။
58. (as) a pretext (for) ရမယ်ရှာ (မူမမှန်သော အကြောင်းပြချက်။ ယိုးမယ်ဖွဲ့ခြင်း။). The border dispute was used as a pretext for military intervention We'll have to find a pretext for not going to the party.
59. an arm and a leg (idm, infml) နင့်နေအောင် ငွေပေးရ If you say that something costs an arm and a leg, you mean that it is very expensive. A week at a health farm can cost an arm and a leg
60. an eager beaver ဝီရိယကောင်းသူ
61. an old flame ငယ်ချစ် a former lover
62. an ulterior motive ကွယ်ဝှက်တဲ့ရည်ရွယ်ချက်. Sheila had an ulterior motive for trying to help Stan
63. antic ကိုးရိုးကားယားလုပ်ခြင်း၊ ဆော့ခြင်း. Such an antic comedy does not need to be realistic.
64. antics နောက်တီးနောက်တော်မူဟန်၊ ဟာသလုပ်ရပ်
65. as cold as cucumber ပန်းပန်လျက်ပဲ/ခပ်အေးအေးပဲ very calm or very calmly, especially when this is surprising. She walked in as cool as a cucumber, as if nothing had happened
66. answer nature’s call (idm) အလေးအပေါ့သွား (euphemism) To urinate or defecate; to go to the bathroom. Jim is off answering nature's call—he should be back any minute
67. apples and oranges (idm) လုံးဝမတူ ကွဲပြား to compare things that are very different. To compare large trucks with compact cars is to compare apples with oranges.
68. as far as the eye can see မျက်စိတစ်ဆုံး
69. assert ပြောရဲဆိုရဲ. The claimants assert that their claims should also have been settled.
70. at a leisurely pace စိတ်ပြေနပြေ done in a relaxed and unhurried way. He is walking to school at a leisurely pace although he is late.
71. (at/on) full blash အသံအကျယ်ဆုံး as loud as possible. The heat is on full blast.The radio was on at full blast
72. at hammer and tongs တကျက်ကျက်ဖြစ် energetically, enthusiastically, or with great vehemence. He went at it hammer and tongs as soon as he got back from work.
73. at his heels (idm) ထပ်ကြပ်မကွာ following someone very closely. The dog was at my heels.
74. at one’s wit’s end အကြံကုန်ပြီ. I've tried every possible source without success, and now I'm at my wit's end
75. at the bottom အောက်ဆုံး၊ အောက်ခြေ
76. awful-looking ကျက်သရေတုံး. I don’t want to see your awful-looking face early in the morning.
77. babble 1.ဗလုံးဗထွေးပြောသည်။ 2.ဗလွတ်ဗလွတ်ပြောသည်။ ပေါက်ကရ ပြောသည်။ 3.ဗလုံးဗထွေးစကားသံ
78. backasswards= (adv/adj) (infml) သောက်တလွဲ။ မျှော်လင့်သည်နှင့် ဆန့်ကျင်လျက်/သော။ ပုံမှန်ဖြစ်နေကျနှင့် ဆန့်ကျင်လျက်/သော in a manner contrary to what is usual, expected, or logical. you always do everything backasswards
79. back to square one (idm) ဒုံးရင်းပြန်ရောက်. The director changed the meeting topic this morning so we're back to square one in terms of speaker ideas
80. badmouth someone သူများအကြောင်း အပုပ်ချ. Her co-workers bad-mouthed her to her boss
81. badger (v/n)~ sb (into doing sth) နားပူနားဆာ လုပ်သည်။ တကျည်ကျည် လုပ်သည်။ ခွေးတူဝက်တူ. You can't badger me into going to the party
82. baffled နားဝေတိမ်တောင်ဖြစ် (ခေါင်းခြောက်စေသည်။ ဦးနှောက်ရှုပ်စေသည်။ ) totally bewilder or perplex. His disappearance baffled the authorities
83. baldy ထိပ်ပြောင်။ 2.တုံးတိ It is very rude of you to call him baldy. “You're lying,” he said baldly.
84. banter ဗရွတ်ရွတ်တ (ကျီစားနောက်ပြောင်သည်။ ကျီစယ်သည်။) ကျီစယ်စကား (v/n). I always enjoy listening to him when he is in a bantering mood, and he has been in one tonight
85. barely enough (idm) မစို့မပို့ only just; scarcely; no more than; almost not:. He had barely enough money to pay for the car.
86. bark up the wrong tree (idm) အရွေးမှားသည်။ to follow the wrong course of action because their beliefs or ideas about something are incorrect
87. based on sth အခြေခံပြီး၊ မူတည်ပြီး
88. bawdy အပြောင်အပြက်ညစ်ညမ်းသော။ soiled, dirty -ier, -iest. bawdy jokes/stories
89. be my guest ရတယ်၊ သုံးလို့ရတယ် သုံး။ Can I open the door? Be my guest. Go ahead.
90. beat the clock အချိန်လု The paper went to press at five o'clock, and they hurried to beat the clock.
91. beat the band ကြီးမားသော အရှိန်အဟုန်နဲ့/ အရှိန်ပြင်းပြင်းနဲ့ (သို့) ဆူညံသောင်းကျန်းခြင်း၊ ပွက်လောရိုက်ခြင်း၊ ရုတ်ရုတ်သဲသဲဖြစ်ခြင်း၊ ကြိုးစားမှုအများအပြားနဲ့ at full speed. The police car was going down the highway to beat the band.
92. beauty is skin deep (prov)အဆင်းထက် အချင်းက အရေးကြီး
93. beep တီတီပေါ်ပေါ် စသည့် အဆက်မပြတ် အချက်ပေးသံ၊ (v) တတီတီမြည်သည်. The cab driver beeped (his horn) impatiently at the cyclist
94. befuddled စိတ်ရှုပ်ထွေးသော။ ဦးနှောက်မကြည်မလင်ဖြစ်သော။ She was befuddled and did not know what she was doing.
95. behind the 8-ball အခက်အခဲတွေ့ in a difficult situation or in a worse situation than other people. If you don't get the investigation going right away, you put yourself behind the eight ball.
96. bemuse ရှုပ်ထွေးစေသည်။ -edထိုင်းမှိုင်းတွေဝေသော
97. bite the bullet အံကြိတ် Their manager had been putting off the budget meeting but decided to bite the bullet and have the meeting this week.
98. black sheep သိုးမည်း someone who embarrasses a group or family because the person is different or has gotten into trouble. She had different interests, and we stupidly thought of her as a black sheep
99. blank face မျက်နှာသေ to stare at someone who is obviously wrong, lying, inappropriate, or asking you something you will never answer. Her solemn, blank face, caught by her camera in mirrors and windows, scolded us for prying
100. blatant ဝရုန်းသုန်းကားဖြစ်သော၊ အရှက်မရှိ ဗြောင်ကျသော၊ ပေါ်တင် Outsiders will continue to suffer the most blatant discrimination.
101. blatantly ဟောင်ဖွာဖွာနိုင်စွာ၊ အာကျယ်စွာ
102. blistering heat/hot ချစ်ချစ်တောက်ပူ exremely hot. We went out in the blistering heat To add to the frustration, we are tantalisingly close to some blistering heat.
103. blow the whistle (infml) မဟုတ်တာလုပ်တာ တိုင်ကြား to expose or report something scandalous or deceptive. If you keep coming in late, I'm going to have to blow the whistle and report you to the department head
104. blush ရှက်သွေးဖြန်း။ ရှက်စိတ်၊ ဒေါသစိတ် ကြောင့် မျက်နှာနီမြန်းသွားသည်။ ရှက်သွေးဖြန်းသည်။ 2. မျက်နှာပူ သည်။ ရှက်သည်။ fml (v/n). She blushed at the thought of her stupid mistake. I blush to admit/confess that… She turned away to hide her blushes
105. blockhead နလပိန်းတုံး Such fellows as these are ever your dullest of blockheads.
106. bluntly တုံးတိ You're drunk,' she said bluntly The media man asked him politely but he answered bluntly. “ How could I know”?
107. body odor ကိုယ်သင်းနံ့ As he did so, I caught a pungent whiff of body odour, the sour smell of decomposing underpants
108. bolshie ဂျစ်ကန်ကန် (တမင် ကတ်ဖဲ့လုပ်သော) (of a person or attitude) deliberately combative or uncooperative. She was in a bolshie mood
109. bombast စကားကြီး စကားကျယ် There was no bombast or conceit in his speech
110. bookworm စာကြမ်းပိုး (စာဂျပိုး) She's a bit of a bookworm
111. brand new အသစ်ကျပ်ချွတ်/စက်စက်
112. break the ice (idm) ရင်းနှီးအောင် အစဖော် to make people who have not met before feel more relaxed with each other: Someone suggested that we play a party game to break the ice.
113. bring home the bacon မိသားစုအတွက် ငွေရှာ/ရ to earn the money that is needed to live. He worked hard all week to bring home the bacon for his family.
114. brood တစိမ့်စိမ့်တွေး I guess everyone broods over things once in a while. She constantly broods about her family. Don’t sit at home brooding all day. Let bygones be bygones.
115. brooding over the loss နှမြော She never brooded over her loss of power, or the loss of the changes or amusements which others enjoy.
116. brush aside ချောင်ထိုး (ဘေးချိတ်) We must brush aside all the objections of our opponents. He brushed aside questions about his son's arrest
117. bullshit ပေါက်တတ်ကရ (n/v) Whatever he says is nothing but just bullshit. How can I believe him? Don't bullshit me. Tell me the truth! Stop bullshitting and tell me the truth.
118. burst into tears ချုံးပွဲချငို He burst into tears and said everyone was leaving him
119. butterfingers လက်မမြဲသူ၊ လက်မခိုင်သူ That butterfingers always drops the baseball
120. butter up (idm) ပတ်ချွဲနပ်ချွဲလုပ် (မျက်နှာလုပ်သည်၊ ဖားသည်။) flatter or praise someone as a means of gaining their help or support. He's always trying to butter up the boss.
121. by a freak of fate ဖြစ်တောင့်ဖြစ်ခဲ a strange event. Through some incredible freak of fate they survived the shipwreck.
122. by fits and starts ပြတ်တောင်းပြတ်တောင်း Oh, it is a terrible line. I can only hear you in fits and starts. I will just SMS you. Military technology advances by fits and starts
123. by hook or by crook ရတဲ့နည်းနဲ့ယူ/လုပ် by any means
124. by the sweat of your brow နဖူးကချွေးခြေမကျအောင်လုပ်ရ by one's own hard work, typically manual labour By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return. He earned his money by the sweat of his brow
125. caesarean section (c-section) ဗိုက်ခွဲမွေး The baby was born by caesarean section
126. call it a day နားဦးစို့ (နေ့ဘက်မှာ) call it a night နားဦးစို့ (ညဘက်)
127. catcalls သံသေးသံကြောင် (ဟစ်ခြင်း) (n/v) His ruling was greeted with loud boos and catcalls
128. catch one’s breath ပုံမှန် ပြန်အသက်ရှူ
129. catch sb at a bad time (idm) အလုပ်ရှုပ်ချိန်နှင့်တိုး to encounter or try to communicate or work with someone at an inopportune time. If Dean was grumpy, you probably just caught him at a bad time
130. catch sb red-handed လက်ပူးလက်ကြပ်မိ The police caught the robbers red-handed as they ransacked another house
131. catnap ကြက်အိပ်ကြက်နိုး I just took a catnap on the bus. I catnap on the train on the way home
132. caught short ငွေပြတ်သွားတယ် Don't be caught short
133. check-in luggage/carry-on luggage လေယာဉ်သယ်ဝန်စည်/ကိုယ်တိုင်သယ်ဝန်စည်
134. cheer up ပျော်ပျော်နေစမ်းပါ
135. chippy (infml, brit) အပဲ့များသော။ မအီမသာဖြစ်သော
136. choosy (infml) ရွေးချယ်ရာ၌ စေ့စပ်သေချာသော။ ဇီဇာကြောင်သော She's pretty choosy [=picky] about her clothes/friends
137. chores တောက်တိုမည်ရ (အိမ်မှုဝေယျာဝစ္စ) we always fight over who's going to do the chores
138. chronic နာတာရှည် Ms Brown said Jack is a chronic asthmatic and was stressed at the time
139. chronicle မော်ကွန်းတင် The book chronicles the events that led to the American Civil War.
140. clandestine တိတ်တိတ်ပုန်း They had clandestine meetings for years. Finally the parents found out about her clandestine relationship with the driver.
141. climb the corporate ladder တစ်ဆင့်ပြီးတစ်ဆင့် တိုးတက်လာ She was clever, fashionable, and determined to climb the corporate ladder
142. cluck his tongue (idm) တောက်ခေါက်တယ် My mom shook her head and clicked her tongue in disapproval
143. clumsy ရှပ်ပြာပြာ၊ ကိုးရိုးကားရား awkward, lacking coordination, not graceful, not dextrous. He is very clumsy
144. cluster (n/v)ရုန်းရုန်းရုန်းရုန်းဖြစ်။ အစုအပြုံ။ အစုအဝေး။ စုပြုံဝန်းရံသည်။ There is a small cluster of people standing at the edge of the hallway, blocking my path to my next class
145. cocky ထောင့်မကျိုး။ သွေးကြီးသော။ မိမိကိုယ်ကို မိမိ အထင်ကြီးသော။ ကြွစောင်းစောင်းနိုင်သော overconfident, smug, arrogant, boastful, brash, swaggering, conceited. He was rather cocky because his father was a rich man.
146. come as a godsend မုတ်ဆိတ်ပျားစွဲ something good that happens unexpectedly and helps somebody/something when they need help. godsend for somebody/something. This new benefit has come as a godsend for low-income families.
147. come straigth to the point လိုရင်းတိုရင်း Well, come straight to the point. Don’t beat around the bush.
148. (come through) with flying colors အောင်မြင်တယ် with an overwhelming victory, triumph, or success. He passed the test with flying colors.
149. commit a mortal sin ကံကြီးထိုက် They beat the monks and thus committed a mortal sin. It is indeed an inexcusable mistake.
150. communal leaders ရပ်မိရပ်ဖ
151. composure ကာယိန္ဒြေ a calmness or repose especially of mind, bearing, or appearance. The witness started to break down, then paused and regained her composure.
152. condescend (to) မတူသလို မတန်သလိုလုပ် (often derog မတူမတန် နှိမ်ချ သည်။) Take care not to condescend to your reader
153. connive ~ at/in/with နားလည်မှုယူလိုက်ကြ (လျစ်လျူရှုသည်။ မ သိကျိုးကျွန်ပြုသည်။ ပူးပေါင်းကြံစည်သည်။) I did not connive in the production of these documents
154. consort ကြင်ရာတော် she was deemed unfit to be a royal consort
155. convulse ဆန့်ငင်ဆန့်ငင်ဖြစ် (often passive သိမ့်သိမ့်တုန်သည်။ အပြင်း အထန်လှုပ်ခါသည်။) Carlos was convulsed by a second bout of sneezing cook up
156. counterproductive ခုတ်ရာတခြား ရှရာတခြား Don't try to impose yourself, because that is counterproductive
157. coyly (adv) ရှက်ကိုးရှက်ကန်း The painting shows an eighteenth-century lady flirting with a coyly blushing young knight
158. crawler (bootlicker) ငဖား (ဖော်လံဖား) Company’s business will not get better unless those cronies and crawlers are kicked out.
159. crinkle up his nose နှာခေါင်းရှုံ့ When she laughs, she crinkles her perfectly-formed nose
160. cross the line too far တရားလွန်တာ You're crossing the line too far. မင်း တော်တော် တရားလွန်နေပြီ
161. crumpled ဖွတ်ဖွတ်ကြေ Crumble the cheese over the salad. England's empire crumbled as her colonies became free. Due to his reckless driving, the front of his car crumpled. Luckily he was slightly injured.
162. crunch ဂျွတ်ဂျွတ်ဝါး She paused to crunch a ginger biscuit
163. cursorily (adv) ပြီးစလွယ် He glanced cursorily at the letter, then gave it to me
164. cut down to size (idm) ဒေါက်ဖြုတ် to humble or humiliate; to show someone that they are not as clever or important as they think. Anyway, I most surely am cut down to size.He thinks he's so smart! I wish someone would cut him down to size. The monopolies were hamstrung, cut down to size or forced to break themselves up.
165. dash တက်သုတ်ရိုက် (~ for sth တစ်ဟုန်ထိုး ပြေးခြင်း။ တရကြမ်းသွားခြင်း။) He made a 200-mile dash to the hospital when a kidney donor became available.
166. deep down စိတ်ထဲက၊ ရင်ထဲက He knew deep down inside that she was right. Deep down, I think we all felt the same way
167. deliberately တမင်သက်သက်၊ တမင်တကာ Deliberately making people suffer is immoral
168. delirious ကယောင်ကတမ်း The patient is delirious with fever. The hospital was negligent in the way that it looked after the patient. လူမမာက အဖျားကြီးပြီး ကယောင်ကတမ်း ဖြစ်နေတယ်။ ဆေးရုံကလည်း သူ့ကို ဂရုမစိုက်ဘူး
169. deluge တဖွဲဖွဲ ရောက်လာ (ပြုံကျလာသည်) After advertising in the newspaper, we received a deluge of inquiries and applications. The cyclists got soaked to the skin in the deluge
170. destitute စားရမဲ့သောက်ရမဲ့ (ခိုကိုးရာမဲ့)။ She was destitute, living on the streets.
171. diabolical တော်တော်ဆိုးတယ်။ This plan is so diabolical. Don't do it.
172. diagonally opposite ဓားလွယ်ခုတ် two points or objects that are positioned at opposite corners of a square or rectangular shape and are connected. You can easily find my house. It is diagonally opposite the Temple.
173. didn’t mean to မရည်ရွယ်ပါဘူး
174. dietary regimen ဓာတ်စာစား a set of rules about food and exercise that some people follow in order to stay healthy. I was told to follow a strict dietary regimen as my sugar level is not under control yet.
175. digress ချော်တောငေါ့ ( မူလအကြောင်းမှ ဘေး ချော်သွားသည်။) He has a tendency to digress from the topic in hand.
176. dilly-dally ယီးတီးယားတားလုပ် (အချိန်ဖြုန်းသည်။ အီးရောအီးရောလုပ်သည်။) waste time through aimless wandering or indecision. We want no dilly-dally and delay. If, on the other hand, we dilly-dally during this precious time, we will lose out and other countries will be only too ready to fill the gap.
177. dim-witted နားဝေး Although he is rather a dim-witted orphan, he has a kind heart.
178. dish it out ဝေဖန် criticize other person. He can dish it out, but he can't take it when others do the same to him.
179. divorcee တစ်ခုလပ် She was a divorcee with two children of her own
180. do filial duty မိဘကျေးဇူးဆပ် There has been a decline throughout the nation in filial duty, just as there has been in family life. His father would accuse him of neglecting his filial duties.
181. dogmatic လှေနံဓားထစ် (တစ်ယူသန်ဖြစ်သော။ တရားသေစွဲသော။) You can't be dogmatic in matters of taste
182. dog-eat-dog (idm) နင်လားငါလား I only shop online during Black Friday sales—the shopping malls are dog eat dog and each year a few people are killed while shopping!
183. Don’t judge a book by its cover အပေါ်ယံကြည့် မဆုံးဖြတ်နဲ့ (idm)
184. double-quick (adj/adv) ဖုတ်ပူမီးတိုက် very quick, very quickly. She left the room double-quick when I started singing
185. down at heel (adi) ခပ်စုတ်စုတ် She had a decidedly down-at-heel appearance
186. downplay ဖာဖာထေးထေးပြော (မှိန်ပစ်သည်။ ဘေးချိတ်ရန် ကြိုးပမ်းသည်။) to make something seem less important or less bad than it really is. The government is trying to downplay the violence.
187. dragon မိန်းမကြမ်း Our boss is good-hearted. But his wife is an abosolute dragon! She is a horrible shrew. (shrew အပေါက်ဆိုး)
188. dressed to kill တစ်ဖက်သားငေး/ကျအောင် ဝတ်စား The man was dressed to kill in a tuxedo, hat, gold watch, and expensive shoes because he was going to accept an award
189. drift apart အဆက်အဆံ လျော့ပါး to become less friendly or close to somebody. As children we were very close, but as we grew up we just drifted apart
190. drive/strike the hard bargain ကြိုက်ဈေးရအောင် ဆစ် to be very determined to get what one wants when discussing something and especially a business deal. You drive the hard bargain. I’ll accept your terms.
191. drop a hint အရိပ်အမြွက်ပြော/ပြ to suggest something without saying it directly. He dropped a few hints about some gifts he'd like to get.
192. drunk/tipsy/wasted/mellow/hammered မူးတာ I'm mellow. I don't wanna drink any more.
193. drying for sth သေမတတ်/အငင်းမရဖြစ် I'm dying to hear your news. I'm dying for something to eat
194. dumpee စော်ပစ်ခံ He is a dumpee.
195. dumper ပစ်ထားသူ
196. duped into တစ်ပတ်ရိုက်ခံရ Users were duped into opening the infected files
197. easy come, easy go လွယ်လွယ်ရ, လွယ်လွယ်ကုန်
198. easy said than done အပြောလွယ်သလောက် အလုပ်ခက်တယ်
199. eat and run ပြေးပြေးလွှားလွှားစား
200. elite အခွင့်ထူးခံ Education was once the prerogative of the elite.
201. embarrassing ကတိကအောက်ဖြစ်စေသော။ အခက်တွေ့စေသော။ အကျပ်ရိုက်စေသော It's embarrassing to be caught telling a lie
202. emphathy ကိုယ်ချင်းစာတရား That loafer has no empathy for his parents. They have suffered a lot because of his foolishness.
203. endowed with ပါရမီရှိ He was endowed with a fine intellect
204. enough is enough တော်တန်တိတ် (တော်စမ်းပါ). After seven years of membership, enough is enough
205. enter monkhood ဘုန်းကြီးဝတ် He decided to enter monkhood after his firm went bankrupt.
206. exact change အတိအကျ ငွေအကြွေ/အနုတ်
207. exaggerate ရေးကြီးခွင်ကျယ်လုပ် (ချဲ့ကားပြောသည်။ ပုံကြီးချဲ့သည်။ တစ်ဆိတ်ကို တစ်အိတ်လုပ်သည်။) He always exaggerates to make his stories more amusing.She's prone to exaggerate, that's for sure.He was apt to exaggerate any aches and pains.
208. face (the) facts မှန်ကန်ကြောင်း ဝန်ခံသည်။ to admit that something is true. The time has come to face the fact that the government's policies aren't working
209. faint hearted (adj) ငကြောက် Sailor’s job is not for the faint hearted. It is a risky job.
210. fair and square (idm) တရားသဖြင့် in an honest way and without any doubt: We won the match fair and square
211. fall behind ကြွေးကျန်တယ်/နောက်ကျကျန်ရစ်တယ်
212. fall in တန်းစီ When he heard the sound of an explosion, the sergeant whistled and commanded his men to fall in.
213. fall out တန်းဖြုတ် When he learnt it was only the sound of a tyre burst, the sergeant shouted “ Fall out”.
214. family oriented မိသားစုအရေး ဇောင်းပေး Greek society is very family-oriented and children will be very welcome at tavernas and cafés
215. fatuously (adv) ပေါကြောင်ကြောင် in a way that is stupid, not correct, or not carefully thought about.They chattered fatuously about old movies
216. feel bashful ရှိုးတိုးရှန့်တန့်ဖြစ် shy or timid. When the female doctor asked me to take off my underwear, I felt rather bashful.
217. feel like a fish out of water ပတ်ဝန်းကျင် စသည်နဲ့ နေသားမကျသေးဘူး (infml) If you feel like a fish out of water, you do not feel comfortable or relaxed because you are in an unusual or unfamiliar situation. I didn't have any friends that were like me. I just always felt like a fish out of water
218. feel like a third wheel (idm) လူပိုကြီးဖြစ်နေ (especially when two other people are romantically involved or otherwise close). I feel like a third wheel when I go to the movies with my sister and her boyfriend.
219. feel sluggish (lethargic) အဆီယစ် lacking energy, alertness, or vigor; indisposed to exertion; slothful. Alex woke late feeling tired and sluggish.
220. fellow feeling (empathy) စာနာစိတ် I still felt compassion and fellow feeling for them
221. fidget (v/n) မရိုးမရွဖြစ် (ဂနာမငြိမ် လှုပ်ရှားသည်။ ခြေဆော့လက်ဆော့ လုပ်သည်။) ဂနာမငြိမ်သူ။ ယောက်ယက်ခက်. The audience had begun to fidget on their chairs. Anxious audience members were tired of waiting on the singer to appear and began to fidget in their seats Tim's a terrible fidget.
222. fidgety ဂနာမငြိမ်သော inclined to fidget; restless or uneasy. I get nervous and fidgety at the dentist
223. fight fire with fire ဓားဓားချင်း လှံလှံချင်း When he came to power in 1962, he warned the oppositions taht he would fight fire with fire.
224. finical အစားအဝတ်တွင် ဇီဇာကြောင်သော finicky
225. finicky (derog) ဇီဇာကြောင်သော 2. အနုစိတ်နိုင်သော။ လက်ဝင်သော. My teacher is finicky about spelling
226. fishy smell ညှီစော်နံ I don’t drink with this glass. It has a fishy smell.
227. flaky (us infml) ပေါကြောင်ကြောင်နိုင်သော။ -ier, -iest. Carrie's pretty flaky but she's fun to be with
228. flat broke ဘိုင်ကျ၊ မွဲသော၊ ငွေမရှိ dead broke, stone broke. having no money at all. I’m flat broke.
229. flex ကြွားတာ Don't flex. Everyone has a car like yours.
230. flinch တွန့်သွားသည်။ (ရွံ့သည်။ ဆုတ် သည်။ သုန်သည်။) I often flinch when someone approaches me from behind.
231. flip over ပက်လက်လန်သွား (ကျွမ်းသန္တာလန်သည်။ လှန်သည်။) The car hit a tree and flipped over.
232. flirt ကမြင်းကြောထ He spent most of his time flirting with girls
233. flirty/flirt with/hit on အီစီကလီစီလုပ်တာ၊ ကြူတာ. He is really flirty l. I don't even wanna talk to him. I met Jack at the party last night. He was hitting on me all the time
234. fluctuate (a roller coaster) တက်လိုက်ကျလိုက် Temperatures fluctuate according to season
235. flurried ပျာယာခတ်သော nervous and confused, especially because there is too much to do. She hoped he wouldn’t notice her pink cheeks and flurried manner.
236. flurry ပျာယာခတ်ခြင်း။ ယောက်ယက်ခတ်ခြင်း a sudden, short period of activity, excitement, or interest: The prince's words on marriage have prompted a flurry of speculation in the press this week.
237. fluster (esp passive) ပျာယာခတ် (v/n) Don’t get flustered - there’s plenty of time.
238. fool around ကမြင်းကြောထ to behave in a way that is not very serious. When it comes to safety, we don't fool around. often, specifically : to spend time idly, aimlessly, or frivolously
239. foolhardy တဇောက်ကန်း (မိုးရူးရဲ) It was foolhardy to go swimming alone
240. foot the bill (idm) ဒကာခံ pay for sth. His parents footed the bill for his college education
241. for a song လျှော့ဈေးဖြင့် Very cheaply, for little money, especially for less than something is worth. I know a man ... sold a goodly manor for a song” (Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, 3:2)
242. foretell ဗေဒင်ဟော No one could have foretold such strange events.
243. four-letter words အယုတ္တအနတ္တ a short word that people consider to be rude or offensive, usually because it refers to sex or other bodily functions.
244. 4 of us ကျွန်တော် အပါအဝင် လေးဦး
245. frail ဧရာထောင်း (နုသော။ နုနယ်သော။ ချည့်နဲ့သော။ အားနည်း သော။) She lay in bed looking particularly frail.
246. frantic ခြေမကိုင်မိ လက်မကိုင်မ။ ဗျာများနေသော။ ကမန်းကတန်း၊ ကသုတ်ကရက်နိုင်သော frantically (adv) ကသုတ်ကရက်။ ထိတ်ထိတ်ပျာပျာ She was frantic with worry.
247. fraudulently လိမ်လည်လှည့်ဖြားလျက်၊ ကလိမ်ကကျစ် deceitful, false, crooked. The report concludes that I acted neither fraudulently nor improperly.
248. free-for-all (adj) ကြိတ်ကြိတ်တိုး a chaotic situation resembling a free-for-all especially in lacking rules or structure. The press conference deteriorated into a free-for-all. 2. a competition, dispute, or fight open to all comers and usually with no rules. BRAWL
249. frenzied (adj) သွေးရူးသွေးတန်း။ ထိန်းမနိုင်သိမ်းမရ။ သောင်းသောင်းသဲသဲ a frenzied attack.
250. frenziedly (adv) သွေးရူးသွေးတန်း။ သဲသဲမဲမဲ. Young people moved around frenziedly on the dance floor.
251. frighteningly (adv) အလွန်အမင်း။ လွန်လွန်ကဲကဲ။ အလွန်အကြူး The film was frighteningly realistic
252. fudge ဝေ့လည်ကြောင်ပတ်လုပ် (မရေမရာလုပ်သည်။ ဟိုလိုလို သည်လိုလို လုပ်သည်။) 2. တော်ဖီအပျော့စား။ 3. မရေမရာလုပ်ခြင် (v/n) He tried to fudge the issue by saying that he did not want to specify periods.Would you like a piece of fudge? The woolly language and fudge of the policy review.
253. full blown အပြည့်အဝ ဖွံ့ဖြိုးသော။ လုံးလုံးလျားလျား၊ ပီပီပြင်ပြင်၊ ထင်ထင်ရှားရှား ဖြစ်သော fully developed. He has some symptoms, but not yet the full-blown disease. The border dispute has turned into a full-blown crisis.
254. full blown pregnancy နေ့စေ့လစေ့ It is not wise for a woman with a full blown pregnancy to take a long trip.
255. full fledged တင်းပြည့်ကျပ်ပြည့် He had now passed his Bar exams and was a full-fledged lawyer.
256. full of himself သွေးနားထင်ရောက် to be very proud or conceited, and think only of yourself. I got tired of him quite quickly – he's so full of himself.
257. fully booked ကြိုတင်ငှားထား/မှားထားတာ အပြည့်
258. fuss over/about/with ဇီ‌ဇာကြောင်သည်၊ ကြေးများသည်။ He spent hours fussing over the details of the speech
259. fussy ကကြီကကြောင် (ဇီဇာကြောင်သော။ ကြေးများသော) Some students think Saya U Tun Sein is very fussy about pronunciation.
260. fussy eater အစားအသောက် ဇီဇာကြောင်သူ
261. gangly ကလန်ကလား tall and thin. He has become very tall and now looks gangly.
262. gape (at)ပါးစပ်ဟောင်းလောင်းဖြစ်သွား (often derog တအံ့တသြ ပါးစပ်အဟောင်းသားနှင့် ငေးကြည့်သည်။) (v/n) She suddenly realized she had been gaping at the good-looking waiter instead of giving him her order
263. genius (mastermind) ဉာဏ်ကြီးရှင် (ပါရမီရှင်). Newton was a genius.
264. get a long face (idm) မျက်စိမျက်နှာမကောင်း look unhappy or sad. She's got a long face today because she just broke up with her boyfriend
265. get along well (with) အဆင်ပြေ၊ ပလဲနံပသင့် to be friendly or compatible. My brother gets along well with everybody.
266. (get) bombed သောက်-မူးသည်။ completely intoxicated; drunk
267. get down to brass tacks (infml) အရေးကြီးတာ လုပ် to start to discuss or consider the most important details or facts about something. We finally got down to brass tacks and decided to work out a schedule for the project.
268. get it over with ပြီးမြောက်၊ ပြီးပြတ် to do or finish an unpleasant but necessary piece of work or duty so that you do not have to worry about it in the future: I'll be glad to get these exams over with
269. get the ax/axe အလုပ်ထုတ်ခံရ (infml) removal from office or release from employment: dismissal
270. get/give the cold shoulder (idm) လေစိမ်းတိုက် to ignore or snub someone you know. ant: warm welcome. I thought she really liked me, but the next day she gave me the cold shoulder
271. gibber မပီမသ အမြန်ပြောဆိုသည်။ ဗလုံးဗထွေးပြောဆိုသည်။ ကယောက်ကယက် ပြောသည်။ Everyone is gibbering insanely, nerves frayed as showtime approaches. He cowered in the corner, gibbering with terror.
272. giggle တခစ်ခစ်ရယ် Both girls began to giggle.
273. gimmicks အကြံအဖန် (often derog ဗန်းပြထားသည့် ထွင်လုံး။) a method or trick that is used to get people's attention or to sell something. a marketing gimmick [=ploy]. It is just a public relations gimmick.
274. give birth ကလေးမွေးဖွား She gave birth to twins
275. give oneself a buzzcut (US) ဆံပင် တိုတိုလေး ညှပ်သည်။ very short haricut. Britney Spears famously gave herself a buzzcut in front of 70 photographers after leaving rehab (News: The Indepedent)
276. give sb a/the cold shoulder to sb အေးစက်စက်နဲ့။ အဖက်မလုပ် You give a cold shoulder to me နင်က ငါ့ကိုဆို အေးစက်စက်နဲ့နော်
277. give sb a run for one’s money ဝံ့ဝံ့စားစားယှဉ်ပြိုင်အနိုင်လု If you say that someone could give someone else a run for their money, you mean you think they are almost as good as the other person. If he's my chief opposition, I can give him a run for his money.
278. give the boot/get the boot(idm) ထမင်းအိုးကွဲ to be fired. 2. to have one's romantic partner end the relationship with one; to be broken up with. I'm going to get the boot if the boss finds out that the printing error was my fault. He didn't get the boot—their break-up was mutual.
279. glib ရွှန်းရွှန်းဝေအောင် ပြောတတ်သော။ အဆွယ်ကောင်းသော။ စကားတတ်သော A glib talker.
280. (go) back to the drawing board (idm) ပြန်စကြမယ် to start over. The company went back to the drawing board to make a better product.
281. go blank (idm) စဉ်းစားမရ၊ မမှတ်မိ When she asked me his name, my mind went blank.
282. go downhill (idm) ယိုယွင်းလာ to gradually become worse. After his wife died, his health started to go downhill
283. (go) out on a limb ပေါ်နေပြီ If you go out on a limb, you put yourself in a risky position in order to support someone or something. He knew it could damage his career, but Keith went out on a limb and said he supported the anti-war protesters.
284. go the extra mile (idm)အပိုဆောင်း အလုပ်လုပ် to make more effort than is expected of you. He's a nice guy, always ready to go the extra mile for his friends.
285. go to pieces ချောက်ချားသွား become so upset or nervous that one is unable to function normally. My mother went to pieces after his death. syn: have a breakdown, have a nervous/mental breakdown.
286. God forbid! နိမိတ်မရှိ နမာမရှိ (ဖွ၊ လွဲပါစေ) If there was a fire, God forbid, we'd be able to respond to the disaster.
287. good-for-nothing ဆန်ကုန်မြေလေး She told him he was a lazy good-for-nothing and should get a job
288. gorge တဝတပြဲစား You can gorge yourself on any amount of chocolate and not feel guilty
289. greener pastures ရေကြည်ရာမြက်နုရာ They've gone on to greener pastures.
290. grope ဝမ်းတဝါးဝါးသွားလာသည် I had to grope my way up the dark stairs
291. growling တဂွတ်ဂွတ်မြည် I groan piteously, my stomach growling, echoing in the silence like a gunshot.
292. guardian angel ကိုယ်စောင့်နတ် It was as if I had a guardian angel watching over me
293. hang around/about မယောင်မလည် (infml ယောင်ပေပေ လုပ်သည်။ တရစ်ဝဲဝဲလုပ်သည်။ ရစ်သီရစ်သီလုပ်သည်။) Stop hanging about and go and tidy your room.
294. hanker တောင့်တ She still hankered for her homeland
295. hang in there တောင့်ခံ Hang in there. I am sure things will work out in the end
296. harp on တဖျစ်တောက်တောက်ပြော (တဖွဖွပြော) I don't want to harp on about the past
297. hastily အလောတကြီး။ ကပျာကယာ Some thought the government acted too hastily.
298. have a ball ပျော်ရွင် to spend time in a very enjoyable way. Everyone had a ball at the party
299. have a guilty conscience လိပ်ပြာမလုံ ant: have a clear conscience. It is now very bad psychologically for anybody to have a bad conscience, a guilty conscience
300. have a niggling doubt နောက်ဆံတင်း I have had a nagging doubt about that paragraph since the motion was first announced
301. have a receding hairline နဖူးပြောင် He has a receding hairline and wears dark-framed glasses.
302. have a soft spot သံယောဇဉ်ရှိ to feel that you like someone very much. She'd always had a soft spot for her younger nephew
303. have a sweet tooth (idm) အချိုကြိုက် The whole family has a sweet tooth.
304. have an edge တပန်းသာ to have an advantage. We definitely have an edge
305. have butterflies ( in my stomach) (idm) စိတ်ဂနာမငြိမ်ဖြစ် I used to get butterflies in my stomach before school tests.
306. have good chemistry with ပလဲနံပသင့် (ဓာတ်သဘော) having interests in common and pursuing them together is also an indication of good chemistry. I have good chemistry with the owners
307. have fixed feelings ကောင်းဆိုးနှစ်ထွေရောနေ I had mixed feelings about leaving home
308. have nothing in common (with) ဝါသနာ စရိုက်မတူ She's very nice, but we have nothing in common. I have nothing in common with him
309. have second thoughts နောက်စိတ်ကူးတွေပေါက်
310. have sth on my mind စိတ်ပူနေမိလို့ This game has been on my mind all week. I just forgot. I've had a lot on my mind.
311. have two left feet ကိုးရိုးကားရားနိုင်၊ အချိုးမကျ When we danced together, I discovered he had two left feet.
312. heads or tails ခေါင်းလား ပန်းလား
313. hearsay တစ်ဆင့်စကား၊ ကောလဟာလ
314. hectic အလွန်အလုပ်များသော။ ဗျာများသော။ ကသီ လင်တနိုင်သော။ Today was a bit too hectic.
315. hen-pecked husband မယားကြောက် I have observed that he was a simple, good-natured man; he was, moreover, a kind neighbor, and an obedient henpecked husband.
316. high and low နေရာအနှံ့ everywhere
317. high off the hog စည်းစိမ်နဲ့နေ (US infml) in a luxurious style. Those movie stars live pretty high off the hog
318. hillbilly တောသား Nobody had any money except the hillbilly and he went home for the three days and really lived it up
319. hit it off အပေါင်းအသင်းနဲ့ပျော် to be friendly with each other immediately. We had similar ideas about the show, and the two of us hit it off right away.
320. hit the bottle သောက်စား to partake excessively of alcoholic beverages. He told others in the group about how he used to immediately hit the bottle after work.
321. hit the jackpot ရတနာပုံဆိုက်/အချီကြီးမိ He seems to have hit the jackpot with his new invention
322. hold a grudge (idm) အာဃာတရှိ stay angry (at someone or something). I hope you won't hold a grudge against me for bringing it up.
323. hold your breath အသက်အောင့်ထား
324. hollow-eyed မျက်တွင်းချောင် having sunken, dark ringed eyes demonstrative of fear or lack of sleep; pale and exhausted. You are hollow-eyed from lack of sleep. You will not look good on your wedding day. Go and get enough sleep today.
325. hold your horse စောင့်ပါဦး
326. hot foot ကမန်းကတန်း She'd come hotfoot from the palace with the latest news
327. hot potato ဗြဟ္မာမင်းဦးခေါင်း a controversial issue or situation which is awkward to deal with. He dropped the plan like a hot potato when he realized how much it would cost him
328. How come? ဘယ်လိုဖြစ်ရတာလဲ
329. hurt one’s feelings စိတ်ထိခိုက်စေ I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you. His behavior at the party caused a lot of hurt feelings
330. hush-hush (adj) တိုးတိုးတိတ်တိတ် Do not let us have too much secrecy and hush-hush
331. hyped up တကြွကြွတရွရွဖြစ်သော (infml) Everyone at school used to hype each other up about men all the time
332. hysterically စိတ်ကစဉ့်ကလျား။ ခွက်ထိုးခွက်လန် (ရယ်သည်)။ အူတက်မတတ် (ရယ်ရသည်)။ ရင်ဘတ်စည်တီး (ငိုသည်)။ သံကုန် ဟစ်လျက် (အော်သည်)။ She started laughing/crying hysterically
333. I can’t help it ငါ မတတ်နိုင်ဘူး
334. in a bind ကျဉ်းထဲကျပ်ထဲရောက် Caroline was really in a bind
335. in a jam ဒုက္ခအခက်အခဲတွေ့ in trouble or in a difficult situation. I'm in a bit of a jam—I accidentally made plans with two different men tonight!
336. in a jiffy (idm) ခဏ/တစ်အောင့် a very short period of time : moment, instant sense.You better be ready in a jiffy or we're going to be late for the play.
337. in a recumbent position တုံးတုံးလှဲ I found him seated in a recumbent position on the bank.
338. in broad daylight (idm) နေ့ခင်းကြောင်တောင် A girl was attacked on a train in broad daylight
339. in his dotage (in second childhood) သူငယ်ပြန် He has become friendlier in his dotage. The actress continued to work well into her dotage
340. in one’s 60s အသက် ၆၀ ကျော်မှာ I’d say she was in her late sixties.
341. in real life တကယ့်လက်တွေ့ဘဝမှာ
342. in tandem (with) ရှေ့ဆင့်နောက်ဆင့် at the same time; doing something together or at the same time as someone or something else. Malcolm's contract will run in tandem with his existing one. He is working in tandem with officials of the Serious Fraud Office.
343. in terms of sth …အနေနဲ့ကတော့ I can help you in terms of your academic problems but not your financial ones
344. in the middle of nowhere လူသူကင်းဝေးရာ a place that is very remote. We got lost in the middle of nowhere
345. in the middle of the night ညည့်နက်သန်းခေါင်မှာ
346. in the neck of time အချိန်မီရုံလေး/တေ့ပြီးမှ At the last moment, He got there just in time for dinner
347. in the same boat တစ်လှေတည်းစီး၊ ဘဝတူ to be in the same unpleasant situation as other people
348. in the seventh heaven ပျော်ပျော်ပါးပါး
349. in/into the swing of things လိုက်လျောညီထွေ အလုပ်ဖြစ်နေ fully involved and comfortable with (a regular activity, process, etc.). After a while, she got into the swing of her new job.
350. in two minds ဒွိဟစိတ်ဖြစ် I was in two minds about the book . I was in two minds about leaving London
351. inch by inch တရွေ့ရွေ့ They climbed the steep mountain inch by inch.
352. in-depth ထဲထဲဝင်ဝင် We had in-depth discussion of the issues
353. incite တို့မီးရှို့မီးလုပ်။ မြှောက်ထိုးပင့်ကော် (အတို့အထောင်လုပ်) ~ sb to sth လှုံ့ဆော်သည်။ နှိုးဆွသည်။ Their aim is not to incite violence, but rather to encourage civil disobedience. Incite a riot.
354. incognito name နာမည်ဝှက် The pop star had to stay at the hotel in an incognito name so that no one could notice him.
355. inducement (to do/to) မက်လုံး 2. (euph) လာဘ်ထိုးခြင်း There is little inducement for them to work harder. He offered inducements to local officials.
356. inevitably မလွှဲမရှောင်သာ Such a large investment inevitably entails some risk.
357. inner self ဇာတိရုပ် For the first time, Izzy sensed he was revealing a little of his inner self.
358. insolent မခန့်လေးစား (စော်ကားသော၊ မောက်မာသော၊ ရိုင်းပျသော၊ လူဝါးဝသော) You should not be insolent to your teachers
359. into a frenzy ဒေါင်ချာစိုင်း a state or period of uncontrolled excitement or wild behaviour. In a frenzy of rage she hit him
360. into something စိတ်ဝင်စား My boyfriend is really into shopping and fashion but I hate it.
361. irrelevantly မဆီမဆိုင် There's a good view," she said irrelevantly
362. irresistibly မထိန်းနိုင်မသိမ်းနိုင်။ တားမရဆီးမရ He is irresistibly drawn to cameras and lights.
363. irritating စပ်ဖျင်းဖျင်းဖြစ်တာ
364. It’s hard to say ပြောရခက်ပါတယ်
365. It’s highly unlikely အလွန်အလားအလာမရှိ
366. It makes no difference အကြောင်းမထူး
367. It takes 2 to tango နှစ်ဦးစလုံးမှာ တာဝန်ရှိ
368. jack-of-all-trades စွယ်စုံရတဲ့လူ a person who can do passable work at various tasks : a handy versatile person
369. jam-packed ကြိတ်ကြိတ်တိုး The place was jam-packed with tourists
370. jar on my nerves နားငြီး Their voices jar on my nerves. You're starting to get on my nerves
371. join the club ဘဝတူချင်း ကြိုဆိုပါတယ်
372. jumble ဗြုတ်စဗျင်းတောင်း (ဗရပွ။ ဗရပွေ။ ပေါက်သောက်။) ~ sth up usu passive ရောပုံထားသည်။ ရောထွေးနေသည်။ (n/v). That miserly old lady lives alone and her room is a jumble of household items. It looks like a garbage dump.
373. jump on the bandwagon ပေါ်ပင်လိုက်လုပ် to join an activity that has become very popular or to change your opinion to one that has become very popular so that you can share in its success. So many people are trying to quit smoking that I might as well jump on the bandwagon and quit as well
374. jump out of one’s skin လိပ်ပြာစဉ်မတတ် လန့်ဖျပ်သွား be extremely startled. I nearly jumped out of my skin when Guy fired his revolver
375. jump to conclusions (idm) ကောက်ချက်ချမြန်ဆန် My boss jumped to conclusions when he saw my CV on my desk
376. keep a distance ခပ်ဝေးဝေးနေ/အနီးမကပ် I've tried being friendly but she keeps her distance.
377. keep in touch ဆက်သွယ်
378. keep it short တိုအောင်ပြော/လုပ်
379. keep one’s head above water ရငွေသုံးငွေမျှတစေ (idm) to avoid financial failure while having money problems. We have so much debt that we're barely able to keep our heads above water.
380. keep sb company အဖော်ပြု၊ အဖော်လုပ်
381. keep sb informed အကြောင်းပြန်
382. keep to oneself 1. နှုတ်ဆိတ် 2. အကြာကြီး စကားမပြောဘဲ နေ to spend a lot of time alone, not talking to other people very much. You really shouldn't keep your feelings to yourself like that. My neighbour was an elderly lady who kept to herself
383. keyed up စိုးရိမ်ကြီး very excited or nervous, usually before an important event. He always gets keyed up about tests
384. knock one for the loop အံ့အားသင့် in shock. When word spread about their coworker's tragic accident, it knocked them for a loop
385. knock over တိုက်ချမိသည် The cat knocked over the vase on the table
386. kooky ကျပ်မပြည့်သော
387. lamentably ဝမ်းနည်းဖွယ်ရာ The new introduction at times slides into the lamentably frequent moral imperialism of history
388. the last straw ဒီထက်ပိုပြီး သည်းမခံနိုင်တော့ဘူး the last in a series of unpleasant events that finally makes you feel that you cannot continue to accept a bad situation
389. lavishly ဝေဝေဆာဆာ။ မြိုင်မြိုင်ဆိုင်ဆိုင်။ in a way that is expensive or impressive. lavishly decorated. The dining room was lavishly decorated
390. layman လူပြိန်း
391. leading question နိမိတ်ပြမေးခွန်း a question that prompts or encourages the answer wanted. Don't ask leading questions
392. learn the ropes (idm) အထာသိအောင် လုပ် Once I learn the ropes at my new job, I won't be so nervous and I'll be very good at the work I do.
393. leave/flee the nest (idm) အသိုက်ကို စွန့်ခွာ Their children will soon be ready to leave/flee the nest
394. let sleeping dogs lie ပြဿနာလုပ်ဖို့ အကြောင်းမရှိရင် ပြဿာနာမလုပ်နဲ့၊ ဒေါသထွက် အန္တရာယ်ဖြစ်အောင်၊ ပြဿနာတက်အောင် မလုပ်ပါနဲ့ (ပိုနေမြဲကျားနေမြဲ) I thought about bringing up my concerns but decided instead to let sleeping dogs lie.
395. life sentence တစ်သက်တစ်ကျွန်း Three people are serving life sentences for his murder.
396. like father, like son ဘမျိုးဘိုးတူ
397. little by little နည်းနည်းချင်း In the beginning he had felt well, but little by little he was becoming weaker.
398. live from hand to mouth (idm) ရရစားစား I have a wife and two children and we live from hand to mouth on what I earn
399. loafer ကလေကချေ an idle person. Her son has turned into a complete loafer.
400. long-winded စကားကြောရှည် (လေကြောရှည်) He was thrown back on a long-winded explanation of the Italian saga
401. look familiar သိကျွမ်းပုံရတယ် I've never been to this apartment before, but it looks familiar
402. look on the bright side အကောင်းဘက်မှမှုမြင် be optimistic or cheerful in spite of difficulties. ‘I expect I shall manage,’ she said, determined to look on the bright side
403. loony ငကြောင် (ငပေါ) Her brother is a complete loony. He is indeed a good-for-nothing fellow. He had lots of loony ideas about education
404. lopsided တစ်ဖက်စောင်းနင်း Casey glanced at me now and shot me a lopsided, sheepish grin. His suit had shoulders that made him look lopsided
405. lose weight/gain weight အလေးချိန် လျော့/တိုးလာ
406. love is blind ချစ်လျှင် အပြစ်မမြင်
407. low-cut dress ဒူးပေါ်ပေါင်ပေါ် Clare was wearing a low-cut dress which showed off her cleavage. She wore a low-cut swimming costume. She dresses in short skirts and low-cut tops.
408. lower the price ဈေးလျော့ပါဦး
409. lured နားယောင် The child was lured into a car but managed to escape.
410. make a fortune ငွေအမြောက်အမြားရလိုက်
411. make a killing (idm) တစ်ချီတည်းနဲ့အပွကြံ to earn a lot of money very quickly. He is trying with the idea of making a killing on Che’ lottery (Thai lottery). What a ridiculous idea!
412. make a mountain out of a molehill (idm) တစ်ဆိတ်ကို တစ်အိတ်လုပ် You've just got a cold so stop making a mountain out of a molehill
413. make a toast ဆုတောင်းမင်္ဂလာပြု an act of proposing a drink in honor of or of drinking in honor of someone or something. He proposed a toast to the newlyweds. She stood up to make a toast.
414. make ends meet အရအသုံးမျှတ When Mike lost his job, we could barely make ends meet
415. make fun of someone လှောင်၊ ပြောင်၊ သရော်
416. make up ပြန်ပေါင်းထုတ်/ပြန်သင့်မြတ် I'm really happy my best friend and I made up after our argument—I really felt lonely and sad the past week.
417. marquee မဏ္ဍပ် The wedding reception was held in a marquee. The event will take place in a specially erected marquee
418. marital fate နဖူးစာ By the strange twist of their marital fate, the famous actress fell in love with her driver and became husband and wife. နာမည်ကြီး ရုပ်ရှင်မင်းသမီးကလေးက နဖူးစာရွာလည်ပြီး သူ့ရဲ့ ယာဉ်မောင်းနှင့် မေတ္တာမျှပြီးနောက် လက်ထပ်လိုက်တယ်။
419. mean to ဆိုးဝါးသော၊ ယုတ်မာသော She's mean to me all the time.
420. mediate ကြားဝင်စေ့စပ် She had been sent by the UN to mediate between the two nations
421. meddle ခလောက်ဆန် (စွက်ဖက်သည်။ ရှုပ်သည်။ မွှေနှောက်သည်) I don't want him meddling in our affairs.
422. mediocre in appearance ရွက်ကြမ်းရေကျို (mediocre=သာမညောင်ည။ ရွက်ကြမ်းရေကျို။ သာမန်မျှ။) Most girls who are mediocre in appearance canot get a job at this bank. They appoint pretty and attractive girls.
423. meritorious deed ကုသိုလ် Releasing a caged bird is also a meritorious deed.
424. meticulousy စေ့စေ့စပ်စပ်။ ခရေစေ့တွင်းကျ He'd had collections of various kinds as a kid, each of them meticulously sorted and, yes, even inventoried.
425. might-is-right policy ကြီးနိုင်ငယ်ညှဉ်းဝါဒ If might-is-right policy is practized, then it would be an animal kingdom.
426. mind-defling factors ကိလေသာစိတ် See what are the mind-defiling factors and try to purify them.
427. miscarry ကလေးပျက်ကျ This can be an alternative to surgery because many ectopic pregnancies will miscarry naturally
428. mishear နားကြားလွဲ You misheard me.
429. moan and groan ပွစိပွစိ I am moaning and groaning because it does not go far enough. They moan and groan when she misses a layup.
430. molest ဗလက္ကာရပြု (ကိုယ်ထိလက်ရောက် စော်ကားသည်။ မဟားတရား လုပ်သည်။) He was found guilty of molesting a young girl.
431. modestly ရိုးရိုးကုပ်ကုပ်။ ရိုးရိုးယဉ်ယဉ် He modestly puts all of his success down to timing
432. monkey see, money do (idm) အတုမြင် အတတ်သင် If you don't believe that the second person actually solved the problem, but simply copied the actions of the professor, you could say ''monkey see, monkey do
433. mudslide မဟုတ်မတရားပြော (ရွံ့ပက်၊ အသရေဖျက်)
434. mumbo jumbo ဗလုံးဗထွေး ရွတ်ဆိုသံ
435. murmur တတွတ်တွတ်ပြော She murmured a few words of support. He spoke in a murmur.
436. Murphy’s Law (Sod’s law) (idm) တိုက်တိုက်ဆိုင်ဆိုင် The bus is always late but today when I was late it came on time - that's Murphy's law
437. music to my ears (idm) နားဝင်ပီယံဖြစ် something you are pleased to hear about. My teacher told me that I passed the exam. That was music to my ears!
438. my fingers are crossed အောင်မြင်ဖို့ ဆုတောင်းပါတယ်
439. my heart is racing နှလုံး စသည် ခုန်မြန် If your heart/mind/pulse races it works extremely fast because of excitement, drugs, illness, etc. She was hot and sweaty and had a racing heart
440. myth (delusion) အယူအစွဲ
441. nag နားပူနားဆာလုပ် Mom's always nagging me about my hair.
442. naive ငတုံး (ငအ) I’m not that naive.
443. name after someone အမည်ပေး/မှည့်ခေါ် Paul was named after his grandfather.
444. neck and neck (idm) ပခုံးချင်းယှဉ် If two competitors are neck and neck, they are level with each other and have an equal chance of winning. I mean to catch him up and come neck and neck into the winning post
445. ne’er-do-well ဆန်ကုန်မြေလေး။ ငပျင်း
446. nest egg ရှိစုမဲ့စု a sum of money saved for the future. I worked hard to build up a nice little nest egg. Poor trishaw man! He wants his son to get initiated into Buddhist novicehood. But he only has a nest egg of about K 5000. သနားစရာကောင်းတဲ့ ဆိုက်ကားသမား၊ သူ့သားကို ရှင်ပြုပေးချင်နေတာ။ သူ့မှာ ရှိစုမဲ့စု ကျပ် ၅၀၀၀ ပဲရှိတာ။
447. newly-weds ညားခါစလင်မယား Congratulations showered on the newlyweds.
448. nickname နာမည်ပြောင် My nickname is Benjamin.
449. nickel and dime (adj/v) တစ်ပဲနှစ်ပြား (နှစ်ပြားတစ်ပဲ) costing or spending little; cheap. Being a rich man’s son, he won’t accept such a nickel-and-dime job. We're being nickel-and-dimed to death by these small weekly expenses.
450. no matter what ဘာပဲဖြစ်ဖြစ်
451. no pain, no gain အနာမခံရင် အသာမစံရ
452. no spring chicken ငယ်တော့တာမဟုတ် My grandfather is no spring chicken, that’s for sure.
453. no wonder အံ့ဩစရာမရှိ၊ မဆန်းပါဘူး
454. nod off တစ်မှေးအိပ်ပျော်သွား After our busy day, we both sat and nodded off in front of the TV.
455. non-commitall မယုတ်မလွန် giving no clear indication of attitude or feeling. It is one of the most non-committal responses on record
456. normal course of events ဖြစ်ရိုးဖြစ်စဉ် Your copies of the books will follow in the normal course of events and should be with you soon.
457. nosey စပ်စုတာ (negative) Don't be nosey.
458. not lift a finger တုတ်တုတ်မလှုပ် He just watches TV and never lifts a finger to help with the dishes.
459. notorious နာမည်ပျက် (နာမည်ကျော်)Los Angeles is notorious for its smog.He is the most notorious big shot who threatened that whoever talked back to him would be slapped on the face.
460. nudge တံတောင်ဖြင့် တွတ် (သိစေရန် တံတောင်ဖြင့် တွက်သည်။) He nudged me and pointed to the pretty girl across the street.We have to nudge the politicians in the right direction.
461. null and void ပျက်ပြယ် A spokeswoman said the agreement had been declared null and void.
462. numb ထုံကျင်တာ
463. obligatory handout မသဒ္ဓါရေစာ People in the refugee camps are totally helpless and dependent on international obligatory handouts. It is only a half-hearted give-away.
464. odds and ends တိုလီမိုလီ I've got to finish a bunch of odds and ends before I leave the office tonight
465. obsessed with စိတ်စွဲ (စွဲလမ်း) He was obsessed with the idea of revenge.on a scale of 1 to 10 (idm): used with a range of numbers to show the size, strength, or quality of something.On a scale of 1 to 10, I think it's a 10! = I love it, I really like it. On a scale of 1 to 10, I think it's a 5. = I think it is OK, not bad, not good, in the middle. On a scale of 1 to 10 I think it's a 1. = I do not like it at all. It's a way to talk about how you like something, 10 is very good, 1 is bad.
466. off the top of one’s head (အထူးသဖြင့် အချိန်မရလို့) သိပ်မစဉ်းစား If you say something off the top of your head, you say it without thinking about it much before you speak, especially because you do not have enough time. It was the best I could think of off the top of my head
467. on a shoestring ငွေကြွေးအနည်းငယ်လေးနဲ့ The film was made on a shoestring
468. on edge ကသိကအောက်ဖြစ် Is something wrong? You seem a bit on edge this morning
469. on the right/on the left ညာဘက်မှာ/ဘယ်ဘက်မှာ
470. one for the books ထူးထူးခြားခြား a surprising or unexpected event: Well, that's one for the books
471. one one’s tail နောက်ယောက်ခံလိုက် following closely behind someone. The sheriff was hot on their tails.That driver's been on my tail for miles
472. on tenterhooks ရင်တမမ We're on tenterhooks to discover if they will say yes.
473. on the go အလုပ်များ
474. on the house အခမဲ့၊ ဆိုင်ကကျခံ (of a drink or meal in a bar or restaurant) at the management's expense; free. Our first rounds always came on the house
475. on the Q.T လျှို့ဝှက် in a secret/quiet way. All the arrangements were made on the q.t.
476. on the rocks ကျောက်ဆောင်တွင် တင်နေပြီး ပြိုကွဲနေသော သင်္ဘော 2.(infml) (အိမ်ထောင်၊ လုပ်ငန်းစသည်) ပျက်ယွင်းနေ၊ ပြိုကွဲပျက်စီးရန် အလားအလာရှိနေခြင်း 3. (infml) ဝီစကီစသည်နှင့် ရေခဲတုံးသက်သက်သာပါသော အရက်ခွက် The cruise ship was marooned on the rocks for nearly three days before rescue services could reach them. I'll have a whiskey on the rocks, please. It's no wonder he's in therapy—apparently their marriage has been on the rocks for months.
477. on the tip of my mouth လျှာဖျားလေးတင် မေ့နေ Her name is on the tip of my mouth
478. once in a blue moon တစ်လကိုးသီတင်းကြာမှ တစ်ကြိမ်
479. one’s lips are sealed နှုတ်ပိတ်ထား/အာစေးထည့် As for anything told to me in confidence, well, my lips are sealed.
480. oneness တစ်သားတည်းဖြစ်ခြင်း Singing in choirs can also bring a sense of peace and oneness
481. one-off တလုံးတခဲ (တစ်ကြိမ်တည်းဖြင့် အပြတ်ပေးသည်)Here, I will make a one-off payment. Don’t expect anymore from me
482. out of my way (phrs) ခရီးလမ်းပန်းမသင့် not on one's intended route. I got a lift from a Brummie who took me miles out of his way.
483. out of the blue မျှော်လင့်မထားဘဲ Junior running away from home was out of the blue
484. out of the way ခေါင်၊ အရောက်အပေါက်နည်း
485. over the moon (idm) မီးကုန်ယမ်းကုန် ပျော်My daughter was over the moon when she got her new bicycle
486. over-elated အောက်ခြေလွတ်
487. overnight နေ့ချင်းညချင်း This is not an overnight quick fix,’ Dr Khouri said.
488. pale and drawn ဖြူဖတ်ဖြူရော် looking very thin and tired especially from worry, pain, or illness. His illness left him looking very pale and drawn.
489. pass the buck (idm) တာဝန်လွှဲချ to leave a difficult problem for someone else to deal with. Don't try to pass the buck - this is your responsibility, not mine.
490. peanuts ခြောက်ပြားတစ်ပဲ
491. peck at တို့ကနန်းဆိတ်ကနန်း to take small bites of (food). When I was sick, I completely lost my appetite and just pecked at my food.
492. pedantic ခရေစေ့တွင်းကျ လိုက်လွန်းသော။ စာအုပ်ကြီးအတိုင်း လိုက်လွန်းသော။They were being unnecessarily pedantic by insisting that Berry himself, and not his wife, should have made the announcement.
493. pee ရှူရှူပေါက်။ ဆီးသွားသည်။ သေးပန်းသည်။ (n/v) I’ll go for a quick pee. Please wait for me.The puppy was peeing on the carpet
494. perverted ကတ်သီးကတ်သတ်နိုင်သော။ ဓမ္မတာမဟုတ်သော။ ဖောက်ပြန်သော She told him he had a sick and perverted mind
495. philanthropy ပရဟိတအလုပ်
496. phoney ဟန်လုပ် She is a complete phoney.
497. physically agile ဖင်ပေါ့ He was a shor t man, solid but not fat, and physically fast-moving and agile.
498. pick one’s brain (infml) ဆရာတင်၊ အကြံဉာဏ်တောင်း Mind if I pick your brain for a minute?
499. picky ဂျီးများသော၊ (infml) ဇီဇာကြောင်သော a picky eater. She's very picky about which television programs they watch
500. pitch black ပိန်းပိအောင် မှောင် He rode off into the pitch-black night.
501. placidly စိတ်အေးလက်အေး The man suddenly became quiet, then placidly gave himself up
502. planetary post ဂြိုဟ်တိုင် a belief that one action will have a great influence on another event ...I lit candles at all planetary posts on my birthday. It took nearly one hour.
503. play against sb ရင်ဆိုင်ကစား
504. play it by ear (idm) အခြေအနေအရ ဆုံးဖြတ် to do something without special preparation. I don't know how they'll react to our proposal, so we'll just have to play it by ear and hope for the best.
505. play truant ကျောင်းပြေး She began to play truant and acted up at home.
506. pleasantry ပဋိသန္ဓာရစကား (usu pl fml အာလာပသလ္လာပ။ စကား စမြည်။) He laughed at his own pleasantry
507. poetic justice ထိုက်တန်ရာ (ထိုက်သင့်တဲ့ပြစ်ဒဏ်)Everyone thinks there's a good deal of poetic justice in the idea.
508. pompous မိုးလားကဲလား (ဟိတ်ဟန်များသော။ ခမ်းကြီး နားကြီးနိုင်သော) The mayor is terribly pompous
509. pooped out ခြေကုန်လက်ပန်းကျ We worked all morning but we pooped out in the afternoon.
510. poor workmanship လက်ရာညံ့
511. pound the pavement/streets (အလုပ်)ရှာ to walk or run on the street especially in search of something. She's out there every day pounding the pavement, looking for work. Hard-core joggers will pound the streets in all kinds of weather.
512. pour one’s heart out ရင်ဖွင့် I poured my heart out to him and then he told all his friends what I'd said.
513. pratice a new broom policy ဖြုတ်ထုတ်သတ် Our new director does not like the conservative style of working, so he practiced his new broom policy before appointing computer skilled new hands.
514. precarious တဲတဲကလေး (တဲတဲမျှသာ ရှိသော။ ပြုတ်ကျ လုဘနန်း ဖြစ်သော) not securely held or in position; dangerously likely to fall or collapse. They were living a precarious existence on the streets
515. prevent sth from happening တားဆီး/ဟန့်တား
516. prick up his ears နားစွင့် Prick up your ears, because I'm about to tell you what to study for the final exam.
517. profess ကိုးကွယ်တာ Most Myanmars profess Theravada Buddhism.
518. profusely မနည်း။ ရက်ရက်ရောရာ She apologized/thanked us profusely
519. prominent နာမည်ကြီး (နာမည်ကျော်) She was prominent in the fashion industry.
520. promptly ချက်ချင်း။ မဆိုင်းမတွ။ တိတိ I'm going to speak French again, something I learned in school and promptly forgot
521. prone မှောက်လျက်(အနေအထား) lying prone. In a prone position.
522. public-spirited ပရဟိတစိတ်ရှိ He was a generous and public-spirited man
523. pull the strings ဩဇာပေး၊ ကြိုးဆွဲပေး to control someone or something often in a secret way. It turned out that his brother was the person pulling the strings behind the operation.
524. puppy love ငယ်ချစ်ဦး It was just puppy love, but at that time, he felt on top of the world.
525. put two and two together ကောက်ချက်ချ to make a correct guess based on what one has seen or heard : to figure something out
526. put yourself out (for sb) (infml) (တစ်စုံတစ်ဦးအတွက်) ဒုက္ခရှာသည်၊ ကသိကအောက်ဖြစ်စေသည်။ to make a special effort to do something for somebody Please don't put yourself out on my account.
527. put sth aside ပိုက်ဆံ စသည် စု 2. မေ့ထားလိုက်/ဖယ်ထား She's been putting aside some money for a vacation. We need to put these problems aside for now and get the work done
528. quibble over/about/with ပစိပစပ်များ (စကားကတ်ပြောသည်။ အငြင်းပွားသည်။) (v/n)He spent the entire evening quibbling about the historical inaccuracies in the television series on World War II.
529. raise cain (US) စိတ်ဆိုး၊ ကြမ်းကြုတ်သည်။ become angry or violent. He'll raise Cain when he finds out I lost his watch 2. အနှောင့်အယှက်ဖြစ်စေ to behave in a boisterous manner; cause a disturbance. The students raised Cain while the teacher was out
530. ramble တောင်ပြောမြောက်ပြော I don't want to ramble on too long
531. ramshackle ခနော်ခနဲ့ (ဖြစ်ကတတ်ဆန်း) They are renting a remote, ramshackle house near the coast for the summer.
532. rashly မဆင်မခြင် She had rashly promised to lend him the money
533. raving ကယောင်ကတမ်းပြောသော
534. ravingly ကယောင်ချောက်ချား
535. read one’s mind စိတ်ကို သိ How did you know I wanted that CD for my birthday – you must have read my mind
536. reasoning power ဆင်ခြင်ဘုံတရား The reasoning power is also called the Understanding by
537. recuperate နာလန်ထ It can take a long time to recuperate from an operation.
538. red-handed လက်ပူးလက်ကြပ်မိတာ showing clear evidence of guilt; in the act of wrongdoing. I caught him stealing the money red-handed.
539. resourceful ကြံရည်ဖန်ရည်ရှိ You must be resourceful and ready for the challenge of design
540. restless မအိပ်နိုင်မစားနိုင် The mother spent many restless days worring about her daughter who ran away with a trishaw man.
541. retch ပျို့တက် He began to retch at the smell of the meal
542. rewarding တွက်ခြေကိုက် It tends to be a rewarding experience, too, for he radiates positive energy
543. right on time အချိန်ကိုက်ပဲ The plane landed right on time, three hours after takeoff
544. ripped off လိမ်ယူ (ဓားပြတိုက်ယူ) an act or instance of stealing : theft. rip-off (n)
545. riskily စွန့်စွန့်စားစား She had been living a little riskily
546. roll out the red carpet သံဖြူခင်း ရာဇမတ်ကာ 2.to be very pleased about something, and encourage and support it. The theater rolled out the red carpet for the duke, who was attending the opening night of the play that evening. Since Jake is their only child, Robert and Sarah always roll out the red carpet for him whenever he returns home from college
547. run a tab တစ်ချီတည်း ငွေပေါင်းရှင်း They won’t let me run a tab here.
548. run down ချုံးချုံးကျ။ (ယျာဉ်ဖြင့်) တိုက်နင်း (of a vehicle) hit a person or animal and knock them to the ground. 2. မတရား၊ မကြင်မနာ ဝေဖန်ပြစ်တင် criticize someone or something unfairly or unkindly.The boy was run down by joyriders. You mustn't keep running yourself down
549. rush into it အလောတကြီးလုပ်
550. sack off (Brit infml) အားထုတ်မှု၊ အရှိန်လျော့ချ ။ စွန့်လွတ်၊ စွန့်ပစ် avoid or stop doing something 2.abandon or get rid of someone. The duo sacked off their corporate jobs to be full-time brewers. He's sacked off his girlfriend of four months
551. sarcastic ငေါ့တာ Are you being sarcastic? Don't be sarcastic l. I don't like that
552. save your breath လေကုန်ခံ ပြောမနေနဲ့
553. savvy/on the ball လူရည်လည် to be quick to understand and react to things. When he was first appointed in our department, he wasn't very savvy. But now he has become a manager and is really on the ball.
554. scape goat ဓားစာခံ
555. scrounge from/off (mooch) (infml often derog) လက်ဝါးဖြန့်တောင်း။ တောင်းရမ်းယူသည်။ တောင်းရမ်းယူသော (v/adj) My old classmate Jemmy always scrounges tea money from me.
556. scrounger ညာစားတတ်သူ He thinks people on government benefits are all lazy scroungers.
557. search frantically ဒေါင်းတောက်အောင်ရှာ search in a desperate, wild, or frenzied way, out of extreme excitement, pain, fear, etc. He frantically searches the house for her when her dead body
558. see eye to eye (idm) သဘောထားတိုက်ဆိုင် to agree with someone. My sister didn't see eye to eye with me about how to tell my parents about the problem.
559. selective about စိစိစစ်စစ်ရှိသော။ ဇီဇာကျယ်သော။ ကြေးများသော
560. self-help basis ကိုယ်ထူကိုယ်ထ Many schools were established by communities on a self-help basis, with the intention of handing them over to the government
561. selling like hotcakes အရောင်းသွက် to be bought quickly and in large numbers: The new game is apparently selling like hot cakes
562. sensual pleasures ကာမဂုဏ် The centre of sensual pleasure becomes the anus
563. settle the/a score လက်တုံ့ပြန် to harm or punish someone who caused one harm. After being embarrassed in front of the class, Dan was determined to settle the score
564. shape up or ship out တိုးတက်အောင်ကြိုးစား သို့မဟုတ် အလုပ်ထွက်
565. shoot a sideways glance မျက်စောင်းထိုး I know why she shot a sideways glance at me. She always does so whenever young girls chat with me.
566. shopworm (shop-soiled) တိုက်ဆွေး faded, soiled. He brought out some shopworn lettuce
567. short-change someone တမင်လျှော့အမ်း to give someone back less money than they are owed when they are buying something from you: The check-out girl short-changed her.
568. short-lived နေ့မြင်ညပျောက် But the enthusiasm was short-lived and perceived as phoney at the time.
569. shoulder to shoulder ရင်ပေါင်တန်း We stand shoulder to shoulder in defence of democracy and freedom across the world.
570. show off ကြွားတာ He bought that car just to show off.
571. shrew (n/adj) ကြွက်စုတ်။ (dated) အပေါက်ဆိုးသည့် အမျိုးသမီး။ နှုတ်သီးကောင်း ရန်လိုတတ်သော။ စိတ်ပုပ်သော။ ကောက်ကျစ်သော။ She is a horrible shrew.
572. simper ပြုံးစိစိလုပ် He simpered and smirked while he talked to the boss.
573. single out ဆန်ခါတင်ရွေး to focus on just one person in a larger group, either for special recognition or treatment. She was singled out for criticism
574. sit cross-legged တင်ပျဉ်ခွေထိုင် She sat cross-legged on the floor in front of him.
575. skyrocket တစ်ဟုန်ထိုးတက် Wages and prices have skyrocketed. The economic boom sent property prices skyrocketing
576. slam ပြစ်တင်ရှုတ်ချ She slammed the authorities, accusing them of lacking transparency.
577. slander နာမည်ဖျက် She was accused of slandering her former boss.
578. sleazy ကလိမ်ကကျစ် He’s a sleazy politician who ignored his responsibilities in order to make his friends rich.
579. snobbish (infml snobby) ဇီဇာကြောင်သော။ -ness (n) ဇီဇာကြောင်ခြင်း I'd expected her to be snobbish but she was warm and friendly
580. sloppy ဖြစ်ကတတ်ဆန်းနိုင်သော။ ပေါ့ပေါ့တန်တန်နိုင်သော။ မသပ်ရပ်သော။ လျော့ရိလျော့ရဲဖြစ်သော။
581. slur ဗလုံးဗထွေးပြော He was slurring his words like a drunk.
582. small-scale တစ်ပိုင်တစ်နိုင် Most of the farms are small-scale operations
583. small world ရှောင်ပုန်းနေလို့မရဘူး 2.ကမ္ဘာကြီးက ကျဉ်းကျဉ်းလေးပါ
584. smoulder တငွေ့ငွေ့လောင် (တစ်ဖြည်းဖြည်း-တစ်ငွေ့ငွေ့-လောင်ကျွမ်းသည်) The bonfire was still smouldering the next day
585. soft-soap အပျော့ဆွဲဆွဲ (မြှောက်လုံးပင့်လုံးဖြင့် သွေးဆောင်သည်။ စကားချိုချိုနှင့် နားချသည်။)Don't try to soft-soap me— I'm not changing my mind.
586. something drives me crazy စိတ်နောက်အောင်လုပ် to upset, irritate, or annoy one to the point of distraction. It drives me crazy seeing all these people just staring at their phones all day long.
587. something fishy မသင်္ကာဖွယ် suspicious; situations that seem suspect or shady. A guy looking over your shoulder while you use an ATM is fishy
588. something gives me the creeps ကျောချမ်းစေ to cause someone to have uncomfortable feelings of nervousness or fear: Living next to a graveyard would give me the creeps
589. something is killing me အလွန်နာ၊ သေလုမတတ်နာ
590. something runs in my family မျိုးရိုးလိုက် We're all ambitious - it seems to run in the family
591. song and dance သီချင်းနဲ့ သရုပ်ဖော်ပါသော သရုပ်ဆောင်မှု a theatrical performance (such as a vaudeville performance) combining singing and dancing 2.ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက်တွေ a long and often familiar statement or explanation that is usually not true or pertinent
592. speculation တွက်ကိန်း (ထင်ကြေး) He dismissed their theories as mere speculation
593. spill the bean (idm) ဖွင့်ချ/ဖော်ကောင်လုပ် to tell people secret information. So who spilled the beans about her affair with David?
594. spine chilling (adj) ကျော့ချမ်းစရာ alarmingly or eerily frightening
595. spit တံတွေးထွေးသည်။ Please don't spit out of the window
596. spitting image ချွတ်စွတ်တူ My sister is the spitting image of my mother.
597. spotlight (v/n) မီးမောင်းထိုးပြ She is once again in the media spotlight. The report has spotlighted real deprivation in the inner cities
598. sprawl ခြေပစ်လက်ပစ် He was sprawling in an armchair in front of the TV.
599. spruce up ပြင်ဆင်၊ မွမ်းမံ to make (someone or something) look cleaner, neater, or more attractive. We spruced up the room with a fresh coat of paint.
600. stab in the back (idm) လူယုံသတ် I cannot believe my friend stabbed me in the back by telling my teacher I wasn’t really sick when I stayed home yesterday.
601. stalk နောက်ယောင်ခံ (ခြေသံလုံလုံဖြင့် တရွေ့ရွေ့ချဉ်းကပ်သည်။ ရန်သူ၊ အမဲ စသည်ကို ချောင်းသည်၊ ချောင်း မြောင်းသည်။ )The rapist was stalking the victim the whole day before comitting the crime.
602. start from sractch သုညမှ စတင် တည်ထောင်
603. stay out of it ကင်းကင်းရှင်းရှင်းနေ I wish you'd stay out of my business!
604. steathily ခိုးကြောင်ခိုးဝှက် I woke up and stealthily crept downstairs.
605. stepson ဒူးမနာသား (လင်ပါ-မယားပါ သား) He is survived by two daughters and his stepson
606. stew in one’s own juice ကိုယ့်ရူးကိုယ်ပတ် He's run into debt again, but this time we're leaving him to stew in his own juice
607. stick out ထိုးထိုးထောင်ထောင် be extremely noticeable. She certainly sticks out in a crowd. Our teacher is 6 feet tall and his head is sticking out.
608. stiff competition ပြင်းထန်တဲ့ ပြိုင်ပွဲကြီး
609. stiff-necked (idm) မာရေကျောရေ (fml derog ခေါင်းမာသော။) Second, the people were stiff-necked and hard-hearted.
610. straight from the horse’s mouth တစ်ဆင့်စကားမဟုတ်ပါ I'm going to go to ask her and hear it straight from the horse's mouth.
611. strapping body နုထွားကြီး (ထွားကြိုင်းသော) She is only 16. But look at her youthfully strapping body. She is often mistaken for her mother.
612. stretch the truth (idm) ပုံကြီးချဲ့ပြော to say something that is not exactly true : to describe something as larger or greater than it really is. He was stretching the truth to make the story more interesting.
613. stroppy ဘုကျတယ် (Brit sl ချေကျသော။ ကန့်လန့်တိုက် သော။) Don't get stroppy with me—it's not my fault!
614. sub-standard စံချိန်မမှီ China exports sub-standard goods to our country.
615. sulk စူအောင့် (စိတ်ကောက်) He went to sulk in his room. She has been sulking all day.
616. sulky သုန်မှုန် (စိတ်ကောက်သော) John’s in a sulky mood.She always looks sulky.
617. superficial (cosmetic) အပေါ်ယံ Most of the problems are superficial and have no real substance
618. supine ပက်လက် He was lying supine on the couch.
619. sweating buckets ချွေးသီးချွေးပေါက်ကျ The player was sweating buckets and had to change his clothes.
620. swoon over ငမ်းငမ််းတက်ဖြစ် (အရူးအမူး ဖြစ်နေသည်။)The worlds of fashion and design are swooning over it.
621. tag along ကပ်လိုက်/တကောက်ကောက်လိုက် to go somewhere with a person or group, usually when they have not asked you to go with them. I don't know her, she just tagged along with us
622. take a nap တစ်မှေးအိပ် My cat always takes a nap on the cushion. I'm quite tired, so I'm going to take a short nap.
623. take a siesta ထမင်းလုံးစီ a nap or rest especially in the afternoon. He's taking a little siesta out there on the patio.
624. take advantage of someone ကောင်းကောင်းအသုံးချ If someone takes advantage of you, they treat you unfairly for their own benefit, especially when you are trying to be kind or to help them. He felt the church was taking advantage of her and pushing her to work too many hours.
625. take forever အချိန်ကြာ It is an informal phrase that means something requires a long period of time or is taking too long. I've been waiting for the bus for 45 minutes - it takes forever!"
626. take one’s mind off အာရုံပြောင်းစေ Perhaps getting a job might take her mind off herself and how she looks
627. take sb for granted (idm) လွယ်လွယ်ရလို့ အလေးမမူ She had always taken her family's help for granted, and was shocked when told they wouldn't help her out this time.
628. take the rough with the smooth ဒေါင်ကျကျပြားကျကျ to accept the unpleasant parts of a situation as well as the pleasant parts. That's a relationship for you - you have to take the rough with the smooth.
629. tales of the past ရှေးဟောင်းနှောင်းဖြစ် My father enjoyed relating tales of the past. He would make a comparison between British time and present time.
630. talk sb into နားချ She doesn't really want to be on the committee, but I think I can talk her into it
631. taunt ~ sb with sth စကားနာထိုး (ထိကပါး ရိကပါးပြော) (မခံချင်အောင် ထိက ပါးရိက ပါးပြော သည်။ မခံချိမ ခံသာ ဖြစ် အောင် ပြောသည်။) He loves to tease and to taunt
632. teem with တရုန်းရုန်းဖြစ် (ဖွေးဖွေးလှုပ်နေ) to be full of (life and activity). The river teems with fish.My mind is teeming with ideas
633. telepathy အကြားအမြင် His power of telepathy and mind control frustrates him because he can't use them.
634. tell beads ပုတီးစိပ် to pray with a rosary. Now you see him telling his beads, but next moment he will go to the liquor shop to spend most of his time.
635. tenacity ဇွဲနပဲကြီး (ဇွဲ) Such is the tenacity with which people cling to outmoded beliefs. I admire Daw Su for her tenacity in the face of difficulty.
636. tend to အလေ့ရှိ 2.be liable to possess or display (a particular characteristic). Written language tends to be formal. Walter tended towards corpulence
637. tendency ဓာတ်ခံရှိ If the leaders still have aggressive tendencies, democratic reforms are harder to find in our country. She does have a tendency to get involved if she sees a fight.
638. That figures ! ထင်သားပဲ A: Jennifer is absent today, sir. B: That figures ! He didn’t look very well yesterday.
639. That is the life ဒါဟာ ဘဝစည်းစိမ်
640. the apparel oft proclaims the man တောင်းမှာအကွပ် လူမှာအဝတ် Hey, you need to dress properly, you cannot go out as you are. Always remember ‘the apparel oft proclaims the man’.
641. the apple of one’s eye (idm) အသည်းကြော်၊ မျက်ရှုကြေးမုံ Special favorite, beloved person or thing. Special favorite, beloved person or thing
642. the boob tube ရုပ်မြင်သံကြား chiefly US, informal + often disparaging
643. the bum’s rush ဖယ်ထုတ်လိုက်ခြင်း forcible eviction or dismissal
644. the cream of the crop အကောင်းဆုံး အတော်ဆုံး
645. the fine print သေးမျှင်သော ပုံနှိပ်စလုံး
646. the hard sell ဇွတ်ရောင်းခြင်း They are making a hard sell. · Their salesmen are trained to go for the hard sell
647. the following week နောက်အပတ်
648. the laughing-stock အဟားခံရသူ/ဟားကွက် The truth must never get out. If it did she would be a laughing-stock. His policies became the laughing stock of the financial community.
649. the lesser evil အဆိုးထဲက အကောင်း၊ အဆိုးနှစ်ခုအနက် ပိုက်သက်သာသော အဆိုး the less harmful or unpleasant of two bad choices or possibilities. I do not think that war is the lesser evil.
650. the rat race လောဘဇော်နဲ့ အနိုင်လုလောက၊ ကြွက်လိုက်ကြွက်ပြေး She is quitting the rat race to spend time with her family
651. the real McCoy အမှန်အကန် The best of its kind, the real thing. That homemade pizza was the real McCoy
652. the smoking gun သက်သေခံပစ္စည်း The tape recordings provided prosecutors with the smoking gun they needed to prove he'd been involved in the conspiracy.
653. the sooner the better မြန်လေကောင်းလေပေါ့
654. the tip of the iceberg ပြဿနာရဲ့ တစ်စွန်းတစ်စမျှ the small perceptible part of a much larger situation or problem that remains hidden. This is just the tip of the iceberg here, these are ones she got last night
655. there is no love lost အစေးမကပ် If there is no love lost between two people they have a strong enmity towards or hate for the other and make no effort to conceal it. There is no love lost between me and my mother-in-law from the very beginning. The chemistry wasn’t right between us
656. think ahead ကြိုတွေး
657. think twice စဉ်းစဉ်းစားစားလည်း လုပ်ပါဦး That might make you think twice about doing something silly. It will really make me think twice.
658. This calls for a celebration အောင်ပွဲခံမယ်လေ (မုန့်ကျွေး)
659. through thick and thin (idm) ဒိုးတူပေါင်ဖက် under all circumstances, no matter how difficult. They stuck together through thick and thin.
660. thoroughly ဂဃနဏ (စေ့စေ့စပ်စပ်။ ကမ်းကုန်အောင်။ လုံးလုံး လျားလျား။) The work had not been done very thoroughly.
661. through/on the grapevine အတင်းအဖျင်းသတင်း to hear news from someone who heard the news from someone else
662. tighten your belt (idm) လျှော့စား/သုံး cut one's expenditure; live more frugally. She said the poor must tighten their belts
663. time server အကွက်ချောင်းသူ There are many time servers and only a few genuine workers in our department.
664. tiny tots ပိစိကွေး a small child/a very young child. Thousands of tiny tots have been entered in our 2014 search to find a superstar baby
665. tit for tat ပါးကိုက်လို့ နားကိုက် with an equivalent given in retaliation, as a blow for a blow, repartee, etc. I noticed she didn't send me a card - I think it was tit for tat because I forgot her birthday last year
666. tittle-tattle အတင်းအဖျင်း The rumours were no more than idle tittle-tattle.
667. titular နာမည်ခံ He is just a titular head of the organization, having no authority on managers.
668. to and fro ခေါက်တုံ့ခေါက်ပြန် They seem to move to and fro on the issue.
669. to keep the wolf from the door ထမင်းဖိုးဟင်းဖိုးရဖို့ to have just enough money to be able to eat and live. As a student, he took an evening job to keep the wolf from the door
670. to me ငါ့အဖို့/အတွက်/အနေနဲ့
671. to no avail/ of no avail အချည်းနှီးပဲ Of no use or advantage, ineffective. His efforts were to no avail.
672. to the bitter end (idm) ရေကုန်ရေခန်း until something is finished. I was dying to walk during the marathon race but I ran slowly to the bitter end
673. top of the line ပစ္စည်းကောင်း ဈေးကောင်း Top-of-the-line smartphones can replace a laptop
674. total apocalypse ကမ္ဘာပျက် I don’t believe the fact that Mayas predicted a total apocalypse in the year 2022
675. touch suggestively ထိကပါးရိကပါးလုပ် When I saw the old man touching young girls suggestively, I couldn’t believe my own eyes.
676. try my luck ကြိုးစားကြည့်သည်။ လုပ်ကြည့်သည်။ ကံစမ်းသည်။ to attempt to do something (where success requires luck). My great-grandfather came to California to try his luck at finding gold.
677. try my luck in lottery ထီထိုး Whenever I try my luck in the lottery, my hubby keeps saying it is a vain attempt.
678. turn a blind eye မသိကျိုးကျွန်ပြု/မမြင်ချင်ယောင်ဆောင် pretend not to notice. Please, don't turn a blind eye to what is happening
679. turn 6 အသက်အရွယ်ပြည့်/ရောက်
680. turn the tables (on sb) ပြောင်းပြန်လှန် to change a situation so that you now have an advantage over someone who previously had an advantage over you: She turned the tables on her rival with allegations of corruption.
681. turn the clock back ခေတ်နောက်ပြန်ဆွဲ They seem to move to and fro on the issue.
682. turncoat သာကူး (စားခွက်လှန်။ သစ္စာဖောက်။). The liberals deride him as a turncoat while the right tentatively seeks to claim him.
683. 24/7 တစ်ချိန်လုံး
684. twiddle one’s thumbs အချောင်ခို-အချိန်ဖြုန်း to spend time doing nothing; kill time. He twiddled his thumbs in the waiting room before his name was called.
685. unanimous တစ်ခဲနက် Critics were unanimous in their praise for the film. The voters were unanimous in their choice of chairman
686. under construction တည်ဆောက်နေဆဲ
687. under the weather မအီမသာဖြစ် Most people feel under the weather after eating biryani.
688. underfed မဝရေစာ (ဝဝလင်လင် မစားရသော။) My muscles feel like they have been overworked and underfed
689. unresponsive (to) ဖာသိဖာသာနေ (မတုံ့ပြန်သော။ ဥပေက္ခာပြုသော။ မထုံတက်တေး နိုင်သော။) The farmers are seeking redress for their sufferings, but the authorities are unresponsive.
690. upmarket ကြေးရတတ်/လူကုံထံတန်ဈေးကွက် Upmarket products or services are expensive, of good quality, and intended to appeal to people in a high social class. [mainly British}. Anne chose an upmarket agency aimed at professional people. ... restaurants which years ago weren't quite so upmarket as they are today.
691. use your noodle စဉ်းစားပါ to use one's own intelligence and intellectual ability; to think logically and rationally. ("Noodle" here is slang for the head and, by extension, the brain. Often said as an imperative.)
692. utterly wrong တက်တက်စင်လွဲ completely wrong. I can't believe you think that answer is correct - it's utterly wrong
693. vanish into thin air ကြက်ပျောက်ငှက်ပျောက် (အစအနရှာမတွေ့)The ship simply vanished into thin air
694. vibrant personality တက်ကြွလန်းဆန်း He has a vibrant personality. She has a vibrant personality and loves trying new things and doing things a different way
695. water under the bridge (idm) မေ့ပစ်သင့်ပြီ used to say that something happened in the past and is no longer important or worth arguing about. We had our differences in the past, but that's all water under the bridge now
696. washy (adj) ချီတုံချတုံ 1. a.weak, water; washy tea. b.deficient in color c.lacking in vigor, individuality, or definiteness 2.lacking in condition and in firmness of flesh
697. waver (between) မတင်မကျ ဖြစ်နေ (ချီတုံချတုံဖြစ်သည်။ ဝေခွဲမရဖြစ်သည်။)Deborah is wavering between a career as a teacher here and going abroad for further studies.
698. weak at/in the knees (idm) ဒူးချောင်။ စိတ်ခံစားချက် ပြင်းထန်ပြီး မရပ်နိုင်လောက်အောင် ဖြစ်သည်။ overcome by a strong feeling, typically desire.; to become unsteady or flustered due to having a strong emotional reaction to someone or something. Hearing the news of my father's sudden death, I went weak at the knees and could barely remain standing.
699. welcome someone with open arms ဖက်လဲတကင်း/လှိုက်လှိုက်လှဲလှဲကြိုဆို
700. well-combined အစပ်တည့် Mix everything together until well combined.
701. well lit ထိန်ထိန်လင်း The room was well lit, making it easy to read
702. What brings you here? ဘာကိစ္စနဲ့ ဒီကို ရောက်လာတာလဲWhat's something about? ဘာအကြောင်းလဲ
703. wheedle ကပ်ချွဲ to influence or entice by soft words or flattery. She's one of those children who can wheedle you into giving her anything she wants
704. when pigs fly တောင်ထိပ်ကြာပေါက်/အနောက်နေထွက်
705. when the chips are down အခက်အခဲအများဆုံးအချိန် (idm) in a difficult situation : when things are not good. True friends will stand by you when the chips are down.
706. wiles မာယာ The fox's wiles will never enter the lion's head.
707. window dressing ဗန်းပြ All these glossy pamphlets are just window dressing - the fact is that the new mall will ruin the neighborhood.
708. within shouting distance တစ်ခေါ် (မလှမ်းမကမ်း)She was in a shouting distance from me when I saw her flirting with a guy ဘဲတစ်ဗွေနဲ့ သူစပ်စလူးထနေတာကို ငါမြင်လိုက်တဲ့အချိန်မှာ သိပ်မဝေးဘူး မလှမ်းမကမ်းမှာပဲ (တစ်ခေါ်လောက်ပဲ ဝေးတယ်)
709. without a hitch ဆိုက်ဆိုက်မြိုက်မြိုက် smoothly, easily , and successfully. The wedding went off without a hitch: we were lucky not to encounter any problems.
710. (disappear/sink etc) without a trace သဲလွန်စ၊ အရိပ်အယောင်မရှိ stop existing or stop being successful very suddenly and completely. One day he left, and disappeared without a trace. Since his last book five years ago, he seems to have sunk without trace.
711. wolf down အငမ်းမရစား I gave her a plate of pasta and she wolfed it down.
712. word of mouth နှုတ်ဖြင့်။ ပါးစပ်ဖြင့်
713. work the graveyard shift ညဆိုင်းအလုပ်လုပ် a work shift that runs through the early morning hours, typically covering the period between midnight and 8 a.m. Kenneth sleeps all day because he works the graveyard shift.
714. working night and day နေ့မအားညမနား We are working day and night to restore power to all the areas that have experienced outages.
715. You’re squishing me ဖိမိနေပြီ
716. young at heart စိတ်ပျိုသော She loves carnivals and fairs; she's a grandmother but she's young at heart.

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