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📍1. Bread and Butter
ဒီ idiom လေးကို noun အနေနဲ့ရော adjective အနေနဲ့ပါ သုံးပါတယ်
👉 ( n ) >>> a person's or company's main source of income >> လူတစ်ယောက် ၊ ကုမ္ပဏီ တစ်ခုရဲ့ အဓိကဝင်ငွေရလမ်း။
e.g. Teaching classic music to young boys and girls is her bread and butter.
👉 ( adj ) >>> basic ; very important >> အဓိကကျသော ၊ အရေးပါသော ။
[ used only before noun ]
e.g. Employment and taxation are the bread-and-butter issues of politics.
📍2. Big Cheese ( n ) an important and powerful person, especially in an organization >>> အရေးပါ အရာရောက်သူ ။
[ informal , humorous ]
e.g. Ever since his promotion, he has started to feel that he is the big cheese in the company.
📍3. Couch Potato ( n ) a person who spends a lot of time sitting and watching television >> ကိုယ်လက်လှုပ်ရှားမှုမရှိဘဲ အားအားရှိ TV ထိုင်ကြည့်နေသူ ။
e.g. Stop being a couch potato. Turn off the TV and go out and do something.
📍4. Spice sth ( up ) / ( with sth ) to add interest or excitement to something >> စိတ်ဝင်စားစရာကောင်းအောင် လုပ်သည်။
e.g. He exaggerated the details to spice up the story.
e.g. Her conversation is always spiced with humour.
📍5. Butter somebody up >>> to say nice things to somebody so that they will help you or give up something >> ကိုယ်ကျိုးကို မျှော်ပြီး တစ်ဦးတစ်ယောက်ကို ချီးမွမ်းပြောဆိုသည် ။ လိုရင်းတိုရှင်းပြောရရင်တော့ ဖားသည် ပေါ့ ။
e.g. He is always trying to butter up his boss.
📍 6. ( as ) cool as a cucumber >>> very calm and controlled, especially in a difficult situation ; very relaxed >> စိတ်အေးလက်အေး ပေါ့ပေ့ါပါးပါး ရှိသည် ။
e.g. I thought I was afraid of flying, but I was cool as a cucumber all the way to England.
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Kyal Sin Phu
8 May 2020
Ref : www.theidioms.com
www.englishclub.com
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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