first things first

US pronunciation

American soundfirst things first

firstthingsfirst

Syllables: 3 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Clear final sound

first - things - first -> first things first

Myanmar meaning

Full entry

thing /θÇŋ/ n

၁။ [C] အရာဝတ္ထု။ သက်မဲ့ပစ္စည်း။ ဟာ။ ဥစ္စာ။ What's that thing on the table? ❍ She's very fond of sweet things (ie sweet foods). ❍ There wasn't a thing (ie There was nothing) to eat. ❍ I haven't a thing to wear (ie I have no suitable clothes).
၂။ things [pl] ပစ္စည်းတွေ။ ဥစ္စာတွေ။ ဟာတွေ။ Don't forget your swimming things (ie your costume and towel). ❍ Have you packed your things for the journey? ❍ Put your things (eg your coat and hat) on and let's go. ❍ my painting things ❍ kitchen things (eg pans, plates, spoons).
၃။ things [pl] အရာ။ အရာဌာန။ ပစ္စည်း။ ကိစ္စ။ interested in (all) things Japanese/electrical.
၄။ (က) [C] ဖြစ်ရပ်။ ကိစ္စ။ အချက်။ A terrible thing has happened. ❍ I like camping, climbing and that sort of thing. ❍ a difficult thing to do ❍ I've done a lot of things today. ❍ There's another thing I want to ask you about. ❍ I find the whole thing very boring. ❍ The usual thing is to shake hands when you meet somebody for the first time. ❍ The main thing to remember is to switch off the burglar alarm. ❍ say/do the right/wrong thing (ie what is most/least appropriate or polite) ❍ I didn't say a thing (ie I said nothing). ❍ The strange thing is, she didn't tell me her name. ❍ I know just the thing to cheer you up.
(ခ) things [pl] အခြေအနေ။ အကြောင်းအရာ။ ကိစ္စ။ Things are going from bad to worse. ❍ As things stand, we'll never finish on time. ❍ Think things over before you decide. ❍ All things considered, we're doing quite well.
၅။ [C] (လူ၊ တိရစ္ဆာန်တို့ကို ချစ်ခြင်း၊ မုန်းခြင်း၊ သနားခြင်းကို ဖော်ပြသော) … စရာ။ … ခမျာ။ You poor things, you look worn out! ❍ My cat's very ill, poor (old) thing. ❍ You stupid thing!
❏ all/other things being equal [IDM ] အခြေ အနေ မပြောင်းဘူးဆိုရင်။ ဒီအတိုင်းပဲဆိုရင်။ All things being equal, we should finish the job tomorrow.
❏ all things to all men/people [IDM ]
၁။ လူတိုင်းအလိုကျ (လိုက်လျောသည်)။ He has no strong views of his own, but tries to be all things to all men/people.
၂။ ကိုယ့်စိတ်တိုင်းကျ လိုသလိုဆွဲနိုင်သော၊ ကောက်ယူနိုင်သော အရာ၊ ကိစ္စ။
❏ be onto a good thing [IDM ] (infml ) ခွကောင်း ထိုင်မိ သည်။
❏ a close/near thing [IDM ] တဲတဲကလေး။ We managed to win, but it was a close thing.
❏ do one's own thing [IDM ] (infml ) စိတ် ကြိုက်ရာ၊ သန်ရာ လုပ်သည်။ ထင်ရာကြဲသည်။ He's always done his own thing.
❏ first/last thing [IDM ] နိုးနိုးချင်း။ အိပ်ရာဝင်ခါနီး။ I always take the dog for a walk last thing before going to bed.
❏ first things first [IDM ] လောလောဆယ်ကိစ္စကတော့။ First things first, though—how about a cup of coffee?
❏ for one thing [IDM ] (အကြောင်းပြရာ၌) တစ်ချက်ကတော့။ ဒါကတော့။ ‘Why don't you buy a car?’ ‘Well, for one thing, I can't afford it. ’
❏ have a thing about sb/sth [IDM ] (infml )
၁။ အကြီးအကျယ်စိတ်ဝင်စားသည်။ He's got a thing about French girls.
၂။ တရားလွန် ကြောက်သည်၊ မုန်းသည်။ I've got a thing about spiders.
❏ A is one thing, B is another [IDM ] တခြားစီ။ ဘာမျှ မဆိုင်။ Teasing is one thing, threats of violence are quite another.
❏ it is, was, etc a good thing (that)… [IDM ] ကံကောင်း သည်။ မှန်သည်။ It's a good thing I brought my umbrella.
❏ know/tell sb a thing or two (about sth/sb) [IDM ] (infml ) အဆိုးအကောင်း နောကျေသည်၊ သိသည်။ She's been married five times, so she should know a thing or two about men. ❍ He seems perfectly respectable, but I could tell you a thing or two about him.
❏ make a thing of sth [IDM ] (infml ) ရေးကြီးခွင့်ကျယ် လုပ်ပြောသည်။ ဇာချဲ့သည်။ I don't want to make a (big) thing of it but you did say you would tidy up.
❏ not know, etc the first thing about sth/sb [IDM ] လုံးဝမသိပါ။ I've lived next door to him for years but I don't know/couldn't tell you the first thing about him.
❏ (just) one of those things [IDM ] ဖြစ်နေကျ။ ဖြစ်မြဲ ဓမ္မတာ။ ဖြစ်ရိုးဖြစ်စဉ်။ well, never mind, it's just one of those things.
❏ one (damned, etc) thing after another [IDM ] စိတ်ညစ်စရာတစ်ခုပြီးတစ်ခု။
❏ (not) quite the (done) thing [IDM ] မတင့်တယ်သည့် ကိစ္စ။ It wasn't quite the done thing for women to drink in pubs in those days.
❏ see things [IDM ](infml ) ထမင်းလုံးတစ္ဆေခြောက်သည်။ စိတ်တစ္ဆေ ခြောက်သည်။ (joc )Am I seeing things or is that Roy over there?
❏ there's only one thing for it [IDM ] အခြားနည်းလမ်းမရှိ။ There's only one thing for it: we'll have to borrow the money.
❏ the thing (about sth/sb) is [IDM ] (သတိပြုစေလို၍ ပြောသည့်စကား)။ ဒီမှာ။ ဒီမယ်။ The thing is, can we actually afford a new car? ❍ The thing about her is that she's completely honest.
❏ a thing of the past [IDM ] ခေတ်ကုန်ပြီဖြစ်သောကိစ္စ။ The art of writing letters seems to be a thing of the past.
❏ things that go bump in the night [IDM ] (joc ) ချောက်ချားဖွယ်ရာ ညအမှောင်ထုအတွင်းမှ အသံဗလံ။
❏ (what) with one thing and another [IDM ] (infml ) ခေါင်းမဖော်နိုင်အောင် အလုပ်များ နေတာနဲ့။ What with one thing and another, I completely forgot your birthday.

More examples

What’s that thing over there on the table?
I gave her a little thing for her birthday.
It’s one of those gadget things, isn’t it?
It’s a thing used for looking inside people’s ears.
I’ll pack my things for the trip tomorrow.
Turn that thing off and do your homework!
I have a lot of things to do today.
I would have done the same thing in his situation.
[do the right thing] : I gave back the money. Did I do the right thing?
A funny thing happened to me today.
I think we should just forget the whole thing.
[kind/sort of thing] : She doesn’t find that kind of thing funny.
[be onto a good thing] : We’re onto a good thing working here.
[in all things] : Above all else, you must be honest in all things.
[make a big thing out of something] : Don’t make a big thing out of this – I just said I’d be late!
The first thing I want is a hot bath.
If you could change three things about your job, what would they be?
[things both ways] : I’d like to live close to the beach and close to my office, but I can’t have things both ways.
[all good things come to an end/must pass] : Our vacation was great, but all good things come to an end.
The thing I really like about Theresa is her sense of humour.
[the etc thing is] : The sad thing is, she never loved him.
[it’s a thing that] : It’s a good thing that you don’t need to work late.
The police soon got things under control.
Try to see things from your wife’s perspective.

Synonyms

obsession, fixation, mania, craze, fad, accomplishment, act, action, affair, anything, apparatus, article, aspect, attitude, attribute, bee in bonnet, being, body, business, caught on, characteristic, circumstance, commodity, concept, concern, configuration, contraption, contrivance, corporeality, creature, crowd-pleasing, deed, detail, device, doing, duty, element, entity, episode, event, eventuality, everything, existence, existent, exploit, facet, fact, factor, faddish, fascination, feat, feature, fetish, figure, form, gadget, goods, hang-up, happening, idea, idÃ©e fixe, implement, impression, in demand, in favor, in the mainstream, incident, individual, information, instrument, issue, item, job, machine, material, materiality, matter, means, mechanism, movement, notion, object, obligation, occasion, occurrence, opinion, part, particular, perceived, person, phenomenon, phobia, piece, point, popular, portion, preoccupation, proceeding, property, quality, quirk, run after, run-after, seen, shape, situation, something felt, sought after, sought-after, statement, stuff, stunt, style, subject, substance, task, the rage, thingamajig, thought, tool, trait, well-liked, well-received, word, work

Antonyms

abstract, concept, dislike, disorganization, entertainment, failure, fun, hate, hatred, inaction, inanimate, nothing, pastime, whole

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