not as black as he/she/it is painted

No. (266)

not as black as he/she/it is painted

(not as bad as people say he/she/it is)

လူ​ေတြ​ေျပာသ​ေလာက္​ မဆိုးပါဘူး။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

He's not very friendly, but he's not as

black as he's painted.

သူ သိပ္​မ​ေဖာ္​​ေရြဘူး။ ဒါ​ေပမဲ့ လူ​ေတြ ​ေျပာ

သ​ေလာက္​ သူ မဆိုးပါဘူး။

(beat sb) black and blue

No. (265)

(beat somebody) black and blue

[(to hit somebody until they are)

covered with bruises (= blue, brown or

purple marks on the body)]

အညိဳအမည္​းစြဲ​ေအာင္​ထိုး/႐ိုက္​သည္​။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

He was beaten black and blue in a

street fight.

သူ လမ္​းရန္​ပြဲတစ္​ခုမွာ အညိဳအမည္​းစြဲ​ေအာင္​

ထိုးခံလိုက္​ရတယ္​။

see red

No. (264)

see red

(to become very angry)

​ေဒါသထြက္​သည္​။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

People who drop litter make me see

red.

အမိႈက္​ပစ္​ခ်တဲ့လူ​ေတြကို ငါ ​ေဒါသထြက္​တယ္​။

be in the red

No. (263)

be in the red

(to owe money to your bank because

you have spent more than you have in

your account)

စာရင္​း႐ွိ​ေငြထက္​ပိုသံုးမိ၍ ဘဏ္​ကို အ​ေႂကြး

တင္​သည္​။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

My account is $100 in the red.

ငါ့စာရင္​းက ဘဏ္​ကို ​ေဒၚလာ ၁၀၀ အ​ေႂကြး

တင္​​ေနတယ္​။

a red rag to a bull

No. (262)

a red rag to a bull (or) like waving a

red flag in front of a bull

(something that is likely to make

somebody very angry)

ႏြား႐ိုင္​းေ႐ွ႕ အ၀တ္​နီ​ေ၀ွ႔ယမ္​းသလို။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

If you criticize him, it's like a red rag

to a bull—he gets absolutely furious.

နင္​ သူ႔ကို ​ေ၀ဖန္​ရင္​ အဲဒါ ႏြား႐ိုင္​းေ႐ွ႕ အ၀တ္​နီ

​ေ၀ွ႔ယမ္​းသလိုပဲ။ သူ ​ေဒါသပုန္​ အႀကီးအက်ယ္​

ထတာ။

split hairs

No. (261)

split hairs

(to pay too much attention in an

argument to differences that are very

small and not important)

ကတ္​တီးကတ္​ဖဲ့ ျငင္​းသည္​။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

Stop splitting hair!

ကတ္​တီးကတ္​ဖဲ့ ျငင္​းမ​ေနနဲ႔​ေတာ့။

not turn a hair

No. (260)

not turn a hair

(to show no emotion when something

surprising, shocking, etc. happens)

တုန္​လႈပ္​မႈအလ်ဥ္​းမ႐ွိ။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

She listened to his confession without

turning a hair.

သူရဲ႕၀န္​ခံဖြင္​့​ေျပာမႈကို သူမ တုန္​လႈပ္​မႈ အလ်ဥ္​း

မ႐ွိဘဲ နား​ေထာင္​ခဲ့တယ္​။

not harm/touch a hair of sb's head

No. (259)

not harm/touch a hair of somebody's

head

(to not hurt somebody physically in

any way)

ဆံခ်ည္​တစ္​မ်ွင္​​ေတာင္​ မထိခိုက္​​ေစနဲ႔။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

Don't harm a hair of her head.

သူမကို ဆံျခည္​တစ္​မ်ွင္​​ေတာင္​ မထိခိုက္​​ေစနဲ႔။

make sb's hair stand on end

No. (258)

make somebody's hair stand on end

(to shock or frighten somebody)

ဆံပင္​​ေတြ​ေထာင္​ထ​ေလာက္​​ေအာင္​​ေၾကာက္​

​ေစသည္​။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

The sound of footsteps behind me

made my hair stand on end.

ငါ့​ေနာက္​က ​ေျခသံက ငါ့ကို ဆံပင္​​ေတြ ​ေထာင္​

ထ​ေလာက္​​ေအာင္​ ​ေၾကာက္​​ေစခဲ့တယ္​။

let your hair down

No. (257)

let your hair down

(to relax and enjoy yourself, especially

in a lively way)

​ေအး​ေအးလူလူ​ ေပါ့​ေပါ့ပါးပါး နားပါ။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

It's about time you let your hair down

and had some fun!

နင္​ ​ေအး​ေအးလူလူ ​ေပါ့​ေပါ့ပါးပါး နားၿပီး စိတ္​

​ေပ်ာ္တဲ့ဟာ လုပ္​သင္​့ၿပီ။

keep your hair on

No. (256)

keep your hair on

(used to tell somebody to stop

shouting and become calm when they

are angry)

​ေပါက္​ကြဲပြဲၾကမ္​းမ​ေနဘဲ စိတ္​​ေလ်ွာ့ပါ။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

Keep your hair on. Anger isn't any

good.

​ေပါက္​ကြဲပြဲၾကမ္​းမ​ေနဘဲ စိတ္​​ေလ်ွာ့ပါ။ ​ေဒါသ

ထြက္​လို႔ ေကာင္​းတာ ဘာမွမ႐ွိဘူး။

hang by a hair/thread

No. (255)

hang by a hair/thread

[(of a person's life) to be in great

danger]

အႏၲရာယ္ႀကီးႀကီးမားမား ၿခိမ္​း​ေျခာက္​ခံ​ေနရ

သည္​။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

Peace and democracy hang by a

thread in this troubled country.

ဒီျပႆနာမ်ားတဲ့ႏိုင္​ငံမွာ ၿငိမ္​းခ်မ္​း​ေရးနဲ႔

ဒီမိုက​ေရစီဆိုတာ အႏၲရာယ္​ႀကီးႀကီးမားမား

ၿခိမ္​း​ေျခာက္​ခံ​ေနရတဲ့အ​ေနအထားပဲ။

get in sb's hair

No. (254)

get in somebody's hair

(to annoy somebody by always being

near them, asking them questions,

etc.)

​ေခါင္​း​ေနာက္​​စိတ္​႐ႈပ္​ေအာင္​လုပ္​သည္​။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

Stop getting in my hair. I can't stand

you.

ငါ့ကို ​ေခါင္​း​ေနာက္​​စိတ္​႐ႈပ္​ေအာင္​လုပ္​​ေနတာ

ေတာ္​​ပါေတာ့။ ငါ နင္​့ကို သည္​းမခံႏိုင္​​ေတာ့ဘူး။

disappear/vanish off the face of the earth

No. (253)

disappear/vanish off the face of the

earth

(to disappear completely)

​ေျမလ်ိွဳးမိုးပ်ံသလို​ေပ်ာက္​သည္​။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

Keep looking—they can't vanish off

the face of the earth.

​ေစာင္​့ၾကည္​့ထား။ သူတို႔​ေတြ ​ေျမလ်ိွဳးမိုးပ်ံသလို

​ေပ်ာက္​မသြားႏိုင္​ပါဘူး။

a thick skin

No. (252)

a thick skin

(the ability to accept criticism, insults,

etc. without becoming upset)

​ေ၀ဖန္​ခံႏိုင္​မႈ။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

He doesn't care what other people

criticize him. He has a thick skin.

အျခားလူ​ေတြ သူ႔ကိုေ၀ဖန္​ၾကတာ သူ ဂ႐ုမစိုက္​

ဘူး။ သူက အ​ေရထူတယ္​။

save your (own) skin/hide/neck

No. (251)

save your (own) skin/hide/neck

(to try to avoid death, punishment, etc,

especially by leaving others in an

extremely difficult situation)

ကမၻာမီး​ေလာင္​ သား​ေကာင္​ခ်နင္​းသည္​။ ကိုယ္​

လြတ္​႐ံုးသည္​။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

To save his own skin, he lied and

blamed the accident on his friend.

ကိုယ္​လြတ္​႐ံုးဖို႔ မ​ေတာ္​တဆမႈကို သူ႔ သူငယ္​

ခ်င္​း​ေပၚ သူ လိမ္​ၿပီး အျပစ္​ဖို႔ခဲ့တယ္​။

not see hide nor hair of sb/sth

No. (250)

not see hide nor hair of somebody/

something

(not to see somebody/something for

 some time)

အရိပ္​အျခည္​​ေတာင္​မ​ေတြ႕တာၾကာၿပီ။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

I haven't seen hide nor hair of her for

a month.

ငါ သူမရဲ႕ အရိပ္​အျခည္​​ေတာင္​ မ​ေတြ႕ရတာ

တစ္​လၾကာၿပီ။

a high/low profile

No. (249)

a high/low profile

(the amount of attention somebody/

something has from the public)

အာ႐ံုစူးစိုက္​ခံရမႈမ်ား/နည္​းျခင္​း။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

This issue has had a high profile in

recent months.

သိပ္​မၾကာခင္​လ​ေတြကစၿပီး ဒီကိစၥရပ္​ႀကီးက

အာ႐ံုစူးစိုက္​ခံရမႈ မ်ားလာတာ။

I advised her to keep a low profile for

the next few days.

​ေနာက္​ရက္​အနည္​းငယ္​ၾကာမ်ွ အာ႐ံုစူးစိုက္​မခံ

ရဘဲ သိုသိုသိပ္​သိပ္​ ​ေနဖို႔ ငါ သူမကို အၾကံ​ေပး

ခဲ့တယ္​။

from head to foot/toe

No. (248)

from head to foot/toe

(covering your whole body)

​ေခါင္​းဖ်ားမွ ​ေျခဆံုးထိ။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

We were covered from head to foot in

mud.

ငါတို႔ ​ေခါင္​းဖ်ားက​ေန ​ေျခဆံုးထိ ရႊံ႕​ေတြ ​ေပက်ံ

လို႔။

do sb's head in

No. (247)

do somebody's head in

(to make you feel confused, upset

and/or annoyed)

​ေခါင္​းကိုက္​ စိတ္​​ေႏွာက္​​ေအာင္​လုပ္​သည္​။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

Shut up! You're doing my head in.

ပါးစပ္​ပိတ္​ထားလိုက္​​ေတာ့။ နင္​ ငါ့ကို ​ေခါင္​း

ကိုက္​ စိတ္​​ေႏွာက္​​ေအာင္​လုပ္​​ေနတာပဲ။

prevention is better than cure

No. (246)

prevention is better than cure

(it is better to stop something bad

from happening rather than try to

deal with the problems after it has

happened)

ကာကြယ္​ျခင္​းက ကုသျခင္​းထက္​ ပို​ေကာင္​း

တယ္​။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

You should quit smoking. Prevention

is better than cure.

နင္​​ေဆးလိပ္​ျဖတ္​သင္​့တယ္​။ ကာကြယ္​ျခင္​းက

ကုသျခင္​းထက္​ ပို​ေကာင္​းတယ္​။

lie through your teeth

No. (245)

lie through your teeth

(to say something that is not true at

all)

လ်ွာအ႐ိုးမ႐ွိတိုင္​း လိမ္​သည္​။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

The witness was clearly lying through

his teeth.

မ်က္​ျမင္​သက္​​ေသက လ်ွာအ႐ိုးမ႐ွိတိုင္​း အထင္​

အ႐ွားကို လိမ္​​ေန​ေတာ့တာ။

grit your teeth

No. (244)

grit your teeth

(to bite your teeth tightly together)

အံႀကိတ္​သည္​။

(to be determined to continue to do

something in a difficult or unpleasant

situation)

ႀကိတ္​မွိတ္​ၿပီး ဆက္​လုပ္​သည္​။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

She gritted her teeth against the pain.

သူမ နာက်င္​မႈကို အံႀကိတ္ခံသည္​။​

It started to rain harder, but we gritted

our teeth and carried on.

မိုး သည္​းသည္​းမဲမဲ စရြာလာတယ္​။ ဒါ​ေပမဲ့

ကြၽန္​​ေတာ္​တို႔ ႀကိတ္​မွိတ္​ၿပီး ဆက္​လုပ္​ခဲ့တယ္​။

see sth out of the corner of your eye

No. (243)

see something out of the corner of

your eye

(to see something by accident or not

very clearly because you see it from

the side of your eye and are not

looking straight at it)

(အမွတ္​မထင္​/မကြဲမျပား) မ်က္​လံုး​ေထာင္​့မွ

ျမင္​သည္​။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw

him coming closer.

သူ ကပ္​လာတာကို သူမ မ်က္​လံုး​ေထာင္​့က​ေန

ျမင္​လိုက္​တယ္​။

feast your eyes (on sth/sb)

No. (242)

feast your eyes (on something/

somebody)

(to look at something/somebody and

get great pleasure)

မ်က္​စိစားပြဲထိုင္​ၿပီး/မ်က္​စိအစာ​ေကြၽးၿပီး

ၾကည္​ႏူးသည္​။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

He's wasting time feasting his eyes

on beautiful girls.

လွပတဲ့ မိန္​းက​ေလး​ေတြကို မ်က္​စိအစာ​ေကြၽး

ၿပီး သူ အခ်ိန္​ျဖဳန္​း​ေနတာ​ေလ။

under the care of sb

No. (241)

under the care of somebody

(receiving medical care from

somebody)

က်န္​းမာ​ေရး​ေစာင္​့​ေ႐ွာက္​မႈခံ​ယူလ်က္​။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

He's under the care of Dr Parks.

သူ Dr Parks ဆီမွာ က်န္​းမာ​ေရး​ေစာင္​့​ေ႐ွာက္​

မႈ ခံယူ​ေနရတယ္​။

you haven't lived

No. (240)

you haven't lived

(used to tell somebody that if they

have not had a particular experience

their life is not complete)

----- ကို မလုပ္​ဖူး​ေသးရင္​ လူျဖစ္​ရက်ိဳးမနပ္​

​ေသးဘူး။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

You have never been to New York?

You haven't lived!

နင္​ New York ကို မ​ေရာက္​ဖူး​ေသးဘူးလား။

နင္ လူျဖစ္​ရက်ိဳးမနပ္​​ေသးဘူး။​

like getting blood out of/from a stone

No. (239)

like getting blood out of/from a stone

(almost impossible to obtain)

​ေက်ာက္​ခဲကို ​ေရညစ္​ရသလိုမ်ိဳးပဲ။ (ရဖို႔ ခက္​)

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

Collecting the rent money from him

each month is like getting blood out

of a stone.

လစဥ္​ သူ႔ဆီက အိမ္​ငွါးခ​ေငြ​ေကာက္​ရတာက

​ေက်ာက္​ခဲကို ​ေရညစ္​ရသလိုမ်ိဳးပဲ။

the blind leading the blind

No. (238)

the blind leading the blind

(a situation in which people with

almost no experience or knowledge

give advice to others who also have

no experience or knowledge)

မသိသူက မတတ္​သူကို ဆရာလုပ္​သည္​။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

I tried to explain how the software

works, but it was a case of the blind

leading the blind.

ဒီ​ software က ဘယ္​လို အလုပ္​လုပ္​လဲ ဆို

တာ ႐ွင္​းျပဖို႔ ငါ ႀကိဳးစားခဲ့​ေပမဲ့ ဒါက မသိသူက

မတတ္​သူကို ဆရာလုပ္​ရတဲ့ အ​ေျခအ​ေနပဲ။

knit your brows

No. (237)

knit your brows

(to move your eyebrows together, to

show that you're thinking hard,

feeling angry, etc.)

မ်က္​​ေမွာင္​ကုတ္​သည္​။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

What's wrong with him? He's knitting

his brows.

သူ႔တစ္​​ေယာက္​ဘာျဖစ္​​ေနတာလဲ။ မ်က္​​ေမွာင္​

ကုတ္​​ေနလို႔။

not only --- but also

No. (236)

not only ---- but also

(both --- and ---)

သည္​သာမက --- လည္​းပဲ။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

He not only reads the book, but also

remembers what he has read.

သူ စာအုပ္​​ကို ဖတ္​တယ္​။ ဖတ္ၿပီးသမ်ွကိုလည္​း

မွတ္​မိတယ္​။​

come clean (with sb) (about sth)

No. (235)

come clean (with somebody) (about

something)

(to admit and explain something that

you have kept as a secret)

လ်ွိဳ႕၀ွက္​ထားသည္​ကို ဖြင္​့ထုတ္​/ဖြင္​့ခ်သည္​။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

Isn't it time the government came

clean about their plans for education?

ပညာ​ေရးအတြက္​ လ်ွိဳ႕၀ွက္​အစီအစဥ္​​ေတြကို

အစိုးရက ဖြင္​့ခ်​ေျပာဆိုဖို႔ အခ်ိန္​တန္​ၿပီ မဟုတ္​

လား။

work your fingers to the bone

No. (234)

work your fingers to the bone

(work very hard)

အ႐ိုး​ေၾက​ေၾက အ​ေရခမ္​းခမ္​း အလုပ္​လုပ္​သည္​။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

I have to work my fingers to the bone

to support the whole family.

တမိသားစုလံုးကို ​ေထာက္​ပံ့ဖို႔ ငါ အ႐ိုး​ေၾက​ေၾက

အ​ေရခမ္​းခမ္​း အလုပ္​လုပ္​ရမယ္​။

collect yourself/your thoughts

No. (233)

collect yourself/your thoughts

(to try to control your emotions and

become calm)

စိတ္​​ေယာက္​ယက္​မခတ္​ဘဲ စိတ္​ၿငိမ္​ၿငိမ္​ထားပါ။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

Collect yourself. We will not be in

trouble.

စိတ္​​ေယာက္​ယက္​မခတ္​ဘဲ စိတ္​ၿငိမ္​ၿငိမ္​ထား။

ငါတို႔ ဒုကၡ​ေရာက္​မွာ မဟုတ္​ပါဘူး။​

travel light

No. (232)

travel light

(to take very little with you when you

go on a trip)

ခရီးထြက္​ပါက ပစၥည္​းနည္​းနည္​းသာ ယူသည္​။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

I want to travel light.

ငါက အထုပ္​အပိုးနည္​းနည္​းနဲ႔ ခရီးထြက္​ခ်င္​

တာ။