make one's hair stand on end

US pronunciation

American soundmake one's hair stand on end

makeoneshairstandonend

Syllables: 6 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Clear final sound

make - ones - hair - stand - on - end -> make one's hair stand on end

Myanmar meaning

(idm) ကြက်သီးမွေးညင်းထလောက်အောင်ထိတ်လန့်ဖွယ်ကောင်းသည်။

Full entry

hair /heǝ (r)/ n

(က) [C] အမွေး။ ဆံပင်မွေး။ two blonde hairs on his coat collar ❍ There's a hair in my soup.
(ခ) [U] ဆံပင်။ ဆံ။ have/ get's one's hair cut. ❍ have long, black hair ❍ He's losing his hair (ie becoming BALD (၁)). ❍ He's over eighty but still has a fine/full head of hair. ❍ HEAD¹ See also CAMEL-HAIR
(ဂ) [C] အမွေး။ အမှင်။
❏ get in sb's hair [IDM ] ခြေရှုပ်သည်။ ရှုပ်သည်။
❏ hair-drier (also hair-dryer ) n ဆံပင်မှုတ်စက်။ ဆံပင် သွေ့စက်။
❏ -haired (in compound adjs ) (ပုံစံ/အရောင်) ဆံပင်ရှိသော။ a white-haired old man ❍ a curly-haired girl.
❏ hairless adj အမွေးမရှိသော။ his smooth, hairless chest.
❏ a/the hair of the dog (that bit you) [IDM ] (infml ) အမူးပြေအောင် မျက်နှာသစ်သည့် အရက်။
❏ hair-raising
adj အသည်းထိတ်ဖွယ်ကောင်းသော။
❏ hair's breadth n [sing] ဆံတစ်ခြည်မျှ။ ပွတ်ကာသီကာ။ သီသီကလေး။ We won by a hair's breadth. ❍ They came/were within a hair's breadth of being killed. ❍ a hair's breadth escape/ victory.
❏ hair-splitting n [U] မလိုရာအသေးစိတ်ခြင်း။ ရေးကြီး ခွင့်ကျယ်လုပ်ခြင်း။ See also SPLIT HAIRS
❏ (not) harm, etc a hair of sb's head [IDM ] မှဲ့တစ်ပေါက် မစွန်းစေရ။
❏ keep your hair on [IDM ] (infml catch phrase) စိတ် မဆိုးပါနှင့်။ စိတ်အေးအေးထားပါ။
❏ let one's hair down [IDM ] (infml ) စိတ်လွတ်ကိုယ်လွတ် နေသည်။ She certainly let her hair down at the office party!
❏ make one's hair stand on end [IDM ] ကြက်သီးမွေးညင်း ထလောက်အောင် ထိတ်လန့်ဖွယ်ကောင်းသည်။
❏ not turn a hair [IDM ] နကမ္ပတိ။ မတုန်လှုပ်။ The prisoner listened to his sentence without turning a hair.

More examples

Long black hair
A girl with dark shoulder-length hair
He wore his hair in a ponytail.
You need to brush your hair before you go out.
Facial/body hair
A few grey hairs

Synonyms

locks, tresses, curls, mane, adumbral, beard, bristle, cilium, coat, coiffure, cowlick, cut, dark, dark-complexioned, dark-skinned, down, ebon, eyebrow, eyelash, feeler, fiber, filament, fleece, fluff, fringe, frizzies, fur, fuzz, grass, haircut, hairstyle, lock, mop, moustache, mustache, pelt, quill, ruff, shock, sideburn, split ends, strand, swart, thatch, tress, tuft, vibrissa, villus, whiskers, wig, wool

Cross references

locks tresses curls mane adumbral beard bristle cilium coat coiffure cowlick cut dark dark-complexioned dark-skinned down ebon eyebrow eyelash feeler fiber filament fleece fluff fringe frizzies fur fuzz

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