look sb in the eye(s)/face

No. (350)

look somebody in the eye(s)/face

[(usually used in negative sentences

and questions) to look straight at

somebody without feeling ashamed or

embarrassed]

အ​ေနမခက္​/မ႐ွက္​ဘဲ မ်က္​ႏွာ/မ်က္​လံုးကို

​ေစ့​ေစ့ၾကည္​့သည္​။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

Can you look me in the eye and tell

me you're not lying?

နင္​ ငါ့မ်က္​လံုးကို ​ေစ့​ေစ့ၾကည္​့ၿပီး နင္​မလိမ္​ဘူး

လို႔ ငါ့ကို​ေျပာႏိုင္​မလား။

I'll never be able to look her in the

face again!

ငါ​ေတာ့ သူမမ်က္​ႏွာကို ဘယ္​​ေတာ့မွ ​ထပ္​ၿပီး

​ေစ့​ေစ့ၾကည္​့ႏိုင္​​ေတာ့မွာ မဟုတ္​ဘူး။


​ေရးသားသူ (Phyu Lin Wai)

to sb's face

No. (349)

to somebody's face

(if you say something to somebody's

face, you say it to them directly rather

than to other people)

မ်က္​ႏွာခ်င္​းဆိုင္​ တိုက္​႐ိုက္​​ေျပာသည္​။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

I don't have the nerve to tell him to

his face.

ငါ သူနဲ႔ မ်က္​ႏွာခ်င္​းဆိုင္​ တိုက္​႐ိုက္​ေျပာဖို႔ သတၱိ

မ႐ွိဘူး။


​ေရးသားသူ (Phyu Lin Wai)​

what's his/her face

No. (348)

what's his/her face

(used to refer to a person whose name

you cannot remember)

သူ/သူမ ဆိုတဲ့တစ္​​ေယာက္​။ (နာမည္​မမွတ္​မိတဲ့

အခါသံုးတာပါ။)

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

Are you still working for what's her

face?

သူမ ဆိုတဲ့တစ္​​ေယာက္​အတြက္ နင္​အလုပ္​လုပ္​

​ေပး​ေနတုန္​းလား။


​ေရးသားသူ (Phyu Lin Wai)
​

the odd man/one out

No. (347)

the odd man/one out

(a person or thing that is different

from others or does not fit easily into

a group or set)

တျခားလူမ်ား/အရာမ်ားႏွင္​့ သဟဇာတမျဖစ္​

သည္​့ လူ/အရာ။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

At school he was always the odd man

out.

​ေက်ာင္​းမွာ သူက အျမဲတမ္​း တျခားသူ​ေတြနဲ႔

သဟဇာတမျဖစ္​ခဲ့ဘူး။


​ေရးသားသူ (Phyu Lin Wai)

man and boy

No. (346)

man and boy

(from when somebody was young to

when they were old or older)

ငယ္​ကတည္​းက အသက္​ႀကီးလာတဲ့အထိ

(ဘ၀တ​ေလ်ွာက္​လံုး)။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

He's been doing the same job for 50

years—man and boy.

သူ ဒီအလုပ္​ကို လုပ္​လာတာ ႏွစ္​ ၅၀ ႐ွိၿပီ။ ငယ္​

ကတည္​းက​ေန အသက္​ႀကီးလာတဲ့အထိပဲ။

(ဘ၀တ​ေလ်ွာက္​လံုးပဲ)။


​ေရးသားသူ (Phyu Lin Wai)

be your own man/woman

No. (345)

be your own man/woman

(to act or think independently, not

following others or being ordered)

ကိုယ္​့လက္​ကိုယ္​့​ေျခလုပ္​ႏိုင္​သည္​။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

Working for himself meant that he

could be his own man.

သူ႔စီးပြားသူလုပ္​တယ္​ ဆိုတာက သူ ကိုယ္​့လက္​

ကိုယ္​့​ေျခ လုပ္​ႏိုင္​တယ္​လို႔ ဆိုလိုတာပဲ။


​ေရးသားသူ (Phyu Lin Wai)

be man enough (to do sth/for sth)

No. (344)

be man enough (to do something/for

something)

(to be strong or brave enough)

​ေသြးမ​ေၾကာင္​ပါ။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

He was not man enough to face up to

his responsibility.

သူ႔ရဲ႕တာ၀န္​၀တၱရားကို လက္​ခံရင္​ဆိုင္ဖို႔ သူ

​ေသြးေၾကာင္​ခဲ့တယ္​။


​ေရးသားသူ (Phyu Lin Wai)​

as one man

No. (343)

as one man

(with everyone doing or thinking the

same thing at the same time; in

agreement)

တညီတညာတည္​း။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

The staff speak as one man on this

issue.

၀န္​ထမ္​း​ေတြက ဒီကိစၥ​ေပၚမွာ တညီတညာ

တည္​း ​ေလသံထြက္​ၾကတယ္​။


​ေရးသားသူ (Phyu Lin Wai)

be living proof of sth/that

No. (342)

be living proof of something/that…

(to show by your actions or qualities

that a particular fact is true)

(လုပ္​ရပ္​/အရည္​အခ်င္​းျဖင္​့ တစံုတစ္​ခုကို)

မွန္​ကန္​​ေၾကာင္​း သက္​​ေသျပသည္​။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

It's an excellent school, and my

daughter is living proof.

အဲဒါက အလြန္​ေကာင္​းတဲ့​ေက်ာင္​းတစ္​​ေက်ာင္​း

​ေပါ့။ ငါ့သမီးက အဲဒီအခ်က္​မွန္​ကန္​​ေၾကာင္​း

သက္​​ေသျပ​ေနတာပဲ​ေလ။


​ေရးသားသူ (Phyu Lin Wai)

spit it out

No. (341)

spit it out

(usually used in order to tell

somebody to say something when

they seem frightened or unwilling to

speak)

ထုတ္​​ေျပာခ်လိုက္​ပါ။

ဥပမာစာ​ေၾကာင္​း။

If you've got something to say, spit it

out!

တစ္​ကယ္​လို႔ နင္​့မွာ ​ေျပာစရာတစ္​ခုခု႐ွိ​ေနရင္​

ထုတ္​​ေျပာခ်လိုက္​ပါ။


​ေရးသားသူ (Phyu Lin Wai)