ဧဝံေမသုတံ (Idioms & Phrasal Verbs မွတ္စုမ်ား1)

ဒီေန.ေတာ့ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ ဘာသာျပန္ခဲ့တဲ့ 1. Emptying Pandora’s Box, 2. Real Patriots Don’t Spend နွင့္
3. Barack Obama and the Voice of God ထိ Essay ၃ ပုဒ္ထဲကေန ကြ်န္ေတာ္ထုတ္နုတ္ထားတဲ့ Idioms နွင့္ Phrasal Verbs ေတြကုိ ပဲ တစ္ခ်ဳိ.ရွင္းလင္းခ်က္ေလးေတြနွင့္အတူ Post တစ္ခု အျဖစ္တင္လုိက္ပါတယ္ ။ Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, Collins Cobuild Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs နဲ. ျမန္မာစာအဖြဲ.ကထုတ္တဲ့ အဂၤလိပ္-ျမန္မာ အဘိဓာန္ တုိ.ကုိ ကုိးကားပါတယ္။

1. wish sth away ~ (phr v) to try to get rid of sth by wishing it did not exist (ေမ့ေပ်ာက္ ပစ္ခ်င္သည္ ။):
ဒီ phrasal verb ကုိ ဒီလုိရွင္းျပထားပါတယ္ ။ If you wish something away, you hope to get rid of it although you do not do anything practical to remove it.

It seems unlikely that the statistical errors can be wished away.

Wishing them away won’t get rid of your problems.

These problems can’t be wished away, you know.

You can’t wish away debt with a magic wand.

2. I wish ~ (idm) (infml) used to say that sth is impossible or very unlikely, although you wish it were possible :

He’s dead and it’s no use wishing him alive again.

I wish you hadn’t told me all this.

3. take a heavy toll (on sb/sth) / take its toll (on sb/sth) ~ (idm) to have a bad effect on sb/sth; to cause a lot of damage, deaths, suffering, etc.(ထိခုိက္ေသဆုံးမႈ ျဖစ္ေပၚေစသည္ ။):

Illness had taken a heavy toll on her.

The recession is taking its toll on the housing markets.

The civil war has taken its toll on both sides.

4. reach out to sb ~ (phr v) to show sb that you are interested in them and/or want to help them: ဒီလုိရွင္းျပထားတယ္ ။If you reach out to people, you give them help, advice, or comfort, or ask them for it.

His phenomenal capacity to reach out to people……

They may reach out to another person for reassurance.

The church needs to find new ways of reaching out to young people.

I’ve had countless uplifting e-mails in recent days that, in different ways, have been about a moral reorientation, a reaching out, the rediscovery of the ways in which we can be our brother’s and our sister’s keepers.

5(a). beyond the pale ~ (idm) considered by most people to be unacceptable or unreasonable: လက္မခံနုိင္ဖြယ္ ။

His remarks were clearly beyond the pale.

5(b). pale beside/next to sth/pale in/by comparison (with/to sth)/pale into insignificance ~ (idm) to seem less important when compared with sth else:

Last year’s riots pale in comparison with this latest outburst of violence.

Diana Strelow, 73, of Portsmouth, Virginia, put it this way: “My vote for Obama was and is about my hope that an intelligent, self-respecting president will lead to a renewal of civility on the part of all of us – perhaps a renewal even of the love that Americans once had for each other.”
Significant as economic anxieties were, she said, they paled beside deeper yearning.

5(c). pale beside/ in comparison with sth ~ (phrv) ေသးနုပ္သြားသည္ ။ ေသးသိမ္သြားသည္ ။ ေမွးမွိန္သြားသည္။

Investment in British Rail pales in comparison with the amount invested in continental railways.

Their other problems paled into insignificance beside this latest catastrophe.

6. tide sb over (sth) ~ (phr v) to help sb during a difficult period by providing what they need : ေလာေလာဆယ္ အက်ပ္အတည္း ေက်ာ္လႊားရန္ ။ If you give someone money or help in order to tide them over, you do it so that they can get through a period of time when they are having problems.

I only want to borrow enough to tide me over till Monday.

if you need a few dollars to tide you over……

the huge grain surpluses that helped tide the world over the 1972-74 shortages.

Can you lend me some money to tide me over until I get paid?

Only when migrating tribes learned to settle down and farm did they need to save and plan, storing seeds and surpluses to tide them over from season to season.

7. pick out ~ (phrv) 1. choose specially; 2. see among others, esp, with difficulty: ရွင္းလင္းခ်က္ ၂ ခုရွိပါတယ္ ။ 7(a). If you pick out someone or something when they are difficult to see or recognize, you manage to see or recognize them

See if you can pick me out in this photo.

A White House report in 1931 urged parents to let children pick out their own clothes and furniture, thereby creating in the child “a sense of personal as well as family pride in ownership, and eventually teaching him that his personality can be expressed through things.

Irene Burns picked out Meehan as one of the two men who gave her a lift. ဒီ Sentence ေတြမွာ pick out ရဲ. အဓိပၸါယ္က အမ်ားထဲမွာ ေရာေထြးေနတဲ့ အထဲကေန ခက္ခက္ခဲခဲ ရွာေဖြေတြ.မႈ ၊ မွတ္မိမႈ ဆုိတဲ့ သေဘာရွိပါတယ္ ။

7(b) If you pick out one person or thing from a group, you choose them.

He picks out a flat spot without any rocks on it.

She was picked out from dozens of applicants for the job.
He picked out the ripest peach for me. ဒီ Sentence ေတြမွာေတာ့ pick out = အမ်ားစုထဲက တစ္ခုကုိ ေရြးခ်ယ္ျခင္း ဆုိတဲ့ အဓိပၸါယ္ပါ ။

8. live up ~ (phrv) If you live it up, you have a very enjoyable and exciting time, usually spending a lot of money and dong all the things that you want to do

Next week we report to camp. We are going to live it up meanwhile.

We spent a week living it up in the luxury of the Intercontinental Hotel.

We had little chance of living it up on our meager expense accounts.

Somewhere along the way, THRIFT did not just stop being a value; it became a folly. Saving was for suckers; you’d miss the ride, die leaving money on the table when you could have lived it up.

9. resort to sth ~ (phr v) to make use of sth bad, as a means of achieving sth, often because there is no other possible solution ဒီလုိရွင္းျပထားပါတယ္ ။ If you resort to a course of action that you do not really think is right or acceptable, you adopt it because you cannot see any other way of achieving what you want

Eventually the police resorted to CS gas to quell the rioters.

Some factions have resorted to terrorism.

If you're a casting director looking for a voice whose very timbre communicates authority, dignity, power, you might even go to Queen Latifah before you resort to Jeremy Irons.

10. above all ~ (idm) most important of all; especially :

Above all, keep in touch.

Above all, black American ministers have replaced British politicians, at least in perception, as the world's most eloquent public users of the English language.

11. knock sb off their pedestal/perch ~ (idm) to make sb lose their position as sb/sth successful or admired ျဖဳတ္ခ်သည္ ။

Our homegrown Martin Luther King Jr. has knocked Winston Churchill off his perch as the ideal.

knock the market leaders off their pedestal…