mind one's p's and q's

US pronunciation

American soundmind one's p's and q's

mindonespsandqs

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mind - ones - ps - and - qs -> mind one's p's and q's

Myanmar meaning

(idm) ပြုမူပြောဆိုရာ၌သူတစ်ပါးမထိခိုက်အောင်သတိထားသည်။ လက်လွတ်စပယ်မပြော၊မလုပ်။

Full entry

mind /maÇnd / n

၁။ [U,C] စိတ်။ have the right qualities of mind for the job ❍ have complete peace of mind ❍ be in a disturbed state of mind ❍ His mind was full of dark thoughts. ❍ All sorts of fears passed through my mind. ❍ Wales would always be associated in my mind with that last summer with Helen. See also FRAME OF MIND, PRESENCE OF MIND
၂။ [C] (က) ဉာဏ်။ have a brilliant/ logical/ mathematical mind ❍ His mind was as sharp as ever.
(ခ) ပညာရှင်။ one of the greatest minds of her generation.
၃။ [C] အတွေး။ စိတ်။ အာရုံ။ Keep your minds on your work! ❍ Her mind is completely occupied by the new baby.
၄။ [C usu sing ] မှတ်ဉာဏ်။ သတိ။ I can't think where I've left my umbrella—my mind's a complete blank!
၅။ [U,C] ဦးနှောက်။ သတိ။ He's 94 and his mind is going (ie he is becoming SENILE). ❍ The tragedy affected his mind.
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၁။ (က) စိတ်အနှောင့်အယှက် ဖြစ်စေသည်။ အရေးစိုက် သည်။ ဂရုစိုက်သည်။ Do you mind the noise? ❍ I don't mind him at all; it's her I don't like. ❍ Did she mind(about) not getting the job? ❍ I don't mind how hot it is. ❍ They don't mind if I borrow their car occasionally. ❍ She minded very much that he had not come. (ခ) (ခွင့်တောင်းခံရာ၌ဖြစ်စေ၊ မေတ္တာရပ်ခံရာ၌ ဖြစ်စေ သုံးသည့်စကား)။ ရမလား။ Do you mind if I smoke? ❍ Do you mind me/my closing the window? ❍ I wouldn't mind (ie I would very much like) a drink.
၂။ (no passive) အလေး ထားသည်။ ဂရုစိုက်သည်။ အရေးစိုက်သည်။ ‘Would you like tea or coffee?’ ‘Either—I don't mind (which). ’ လက်ဖက်ရည်လား၊ ကော်ဖီလား။ ဘာပဲဖြစ်ဖြစ် ရပါတယ်။ ❍ I mind (greatly) what people think about me.
၃။ (Brit ) (US watch ) (no passive) သတိထားသည်။ ဂရုစိုက်သည်။ အရေးစိုက်သည်။ Mind (ie Don't fall at) that step! ❍ Mind your manners! (ie Speak/Behave in a polite way. ) ❍ Mind your head! (eg Be careful not to hit it on the low ceiling. ) ❍ Don't mind me! I won't disturb you. ❍ Mind you don't cut yourself—the knife's very sharp. ❍ Mind you come home before 11 o'clock. ❍ Mind where you walk in those muddy boots!
၄။ (esp Brit ) စောင့်ကြည့်သည်။ ကြည့်ပေးသည်။ ဂရုစိုက်သည်။ mind the baby ❍ Could you mind the phone (ie answer it if it rings) for five minutes?
❏ bear/keep sb/sth in mind [IDM ] မှတ်ထားသည်။ We have no vacancies now, but we'll certainly bear your application in mind.
❏ be bored, frightened, pissed, etc out of one's mind [IDM ] (infml ) အလွန်အမင်း ငြီးငွေ့၊ ကြောက်ရွံ့၊ စိတ်ကုန်သည် စသည်။
❏ be in two minds about sth/doing sth [IDM ] ချီတုံချတုံဖြစ်သည်။ I was in two minds about leaving London: my friends were there, but the job abroad was a good one.
❏ be of one/the same mind (about sb/sth) [IDM ] တစ်စိတ်တည်း တစ်ဝမ်းတည်းရှိသည်။
❏ be/go out of one's mind [IDM ] (infml ) ရူးသည်။ be out of one's mind with worry ❍ You must be out of your mind if you think I'm going to lend you my car!
❏ bring/call sb/sth to mind [IDM ] မှတ်မိသည်။ I know her face but I can't call her name to mind.
❏ come/spring to mind [IDM ] စဉ်းစားလို့ရသည်။ ‘Have you any suggestions?’ ‘Nothing immediately springs to mind. ’
❏ do you mind? [IDM ] (ironic ) (စိတ်အနှောင့်အယှက် ဖြစ်ကြောင်း၊ သဘောမကျကြောင်း ဖော်ပြရာ၌ သုံးသည့်စကား)။ တစ်ဆိတ်လောက်။ Do you mind? I was here before you.
❏ give one's mind to sth [IDM ] အာရုံစိုက်သည်။
❏ have half a mind to do sth [IDM ] (infml ) မတင်မကျ ဖြစ်သည်။ ။ He had half a mind to ask for his money back.
❏ have sb/sth in mind (for sth) [IDM ] လျာထားသည်။ Who do you have in mind for the job?
❏ have it in mind to do sth [IDM ] (fml ) ရည်ရွယ်ထား သည်။ I have it in mind to ask her opinion when I see her.
❏ have a mind of one's own [IDM ] ကိုယ်ပိုင်ဉာဏ်ရှိသည်။
❏ have a(good) mind to do sth [IDM ] (infml ) …ချင်စိတ် ပေါက်သည်။ I'm so angry I've a good mind to resign.
❏ I don't mind if I do [IDM ] (infml ) (လက်ခံကြောင်း ပြရာ၌ သုံးသည့်စကား)။ ကောင်းသားပဲ။ ရပါတယ်။ ‘Will you have a drink?’ ‘I don't mind if I do. ’
❏ if you don't mind [IDM ]
၁။ (မေတ္တာရပ်ခံရာ၌ ဖြစ်စေ၊ သဘောတူညီမှုကို အသိအမှတ်ပြုရာ၌ဖြစ်စေ သုံးသည့်စကား)။ ကျေးဇူးပြု၍။ ကောင်းပါပြီ။ I must ask you, if you don't mind, to read that letter more closely. ❍ I'll make some coffee now, if you don't mind.
၂။ (လက်မခံနိုင်ကြောင်း ယဉ်ကျေးစွာ ငြင်းပယ်သည့် အခါ၌ သုံးသည့်စကား)။ စိတ်မရှိပါနဲ့။ ‘Have another beer. ’ ‘I won't, if you don't mind. ’
❏ if you don't mind me/my saying so… [IDM ] စိတ်မရှိပါနဲ့နော်။ If you don't mind my saying so, I don't think you should spend so much time with her.
❏ in one's mind's eye [IDM ] စိတ်ကူးထဲမှာ။ အတွေးထဲမှာ။ In my mind's eye, I can still see the house where I was born.
❏ make up one's mind [IDM ] ဆုံးဖြတ်သည်။ Have you made your mind up where to go for your honeymoon?
❏ mind-bending adj (infml ) စိတ်ကိုပြောင်းလဲစေသော။ mind-bending drugs.
❏ mind-blowing adj (infml ) အံ့ဖွယ်သရဲဖြစ်သော။ လက်ဖျား ခါလောက်သော။ the mind-blowing beauty of Africa.
❏ mind-boggling adj (infml ) မတွေးတတ်နိုင်အောင် ဖြစ်သော။ Distances in space are mind-boggling.
❏ minder n (esp in compounds) ကိုယ်ရံတော်။ သက်တော် စောင့်။ The boss never goes anywhere in public without one of her minders. See also CHILD-MINDER
❏ mind out [PHRV ] (Brit infml ) (esp imperative) ဖယ်စမ်းပါ။ ဘေးကို ဘေးကို။ Mind out (of the way)—you're blocking the passage.
❏ mind out (for sb/sth) [PHRV ] (esp imperative) သတိထား။ Mind out for falling rocks.
❏ mind over matter [IDM ] ကိုယ့်စိတ်ကိုယ် နိုင်ခြင်း။ Keeping to a diet is a question of mind over matter.
❏ mind one's own business [IDM ]
၁။ (esp imperative) မင်းအလုပ် မဟုတ်ဘူး။ မင်းနဲ့ဘာဆိုင်လို့လဲ။ ‘What are you reading?’ ‘Mind your own business!’
၂။ (infml ) ကိုယ့်ကိစ္စ ကိုယ်လုပ်သည်။ I was just walking down the street minding my own business.
❏ mind one's p's and q's [IDM ] ပြုမူပြောဆိုရာ၌ သူတစ်ပါး မထိခိုက်အောင် သတိထားသည်။ လက်လွတ်စပယ် မပြော၊ မလုပ်။
❏ mind-reader n သူတစ်ပါး၏ စိတ်ကိုသိသူ။ ဗိုက်ထဲမှာ ပုဏ္ဏားရှိသူ။ How was I to know what he'd do? I'm not a mind-reader, am I?
❏ mind-set n ပုံစံကျနေသော အမြင်။ ပုံသေ အတွေးအခေါ်။ တွေးခေါ်မှုအလေ့အထ။
❏ mind you; mind [IDM ] (ဖြည့်ပြောသည့်အခါတွင် ထည့်သုံးလေ့ရှိသော စကား)။ They're getting divorced, I hear—mind you, I'm not surprised.
❏ never mind [IDM ]
၁။ (esp Brit ) မပူပါနဲ့။ ကိစ္စမရှိပါဘူး။ အကြောင်းမဟုတ်ပါဘူး။ နေပါစေ။ Have you lost it? Never mind, we can buy another one.
၂။ နေနေသာသာ။ He's not even awake, never mind dressed. Compare LET ALONE (ALONE)
❏ never mind (about) (doing) sth [IDM ] ဘာအရေးလဲ ထားလိုက်စမ်းပါ။ Never mind your car, who's going to pay for the damage you've done to my fence? ❍ Never mind about the washing-up now.
❏ never you mind [IDM ] (infml ) မေးမနေပါနဲ့တော့။ Never you mind how I found out—it's true, isn't it?
❏ on one's mind [IDM ] စိတ်ပူသည်။ My deputy has resigned, so I've got a lot on my mind just now. ကျွန်တော့်လက်ထောက် ထွက်သွားလို့ လောလောဆယ် ဗျာများနေ တယ်။ ❍ You've been on my mind all day.
❏ put sb in mind of sb/sth [IDM ] သတိရစေသည်။ Her way of speaking put me in mind of her mother.
❏ put/set sb's mind at ease/rest [IDM ] စိတ်အေးစေ သည်။
❏ put/set/turn one's mind to sth [IDM ] စိုက်လိုက် မတ်တတ် လုပ်သည်။ You could be a very good writer if you set your mind to it.
❏ take one's/sb's mind off sth [IDM ] အာရုံပြောင်းစေ သည်။ Hard work always takes your mind off domestic problems.
❏ to my mind [IDM ] ကျွန်တော်ထင်တာ ပြောရရင်တော့။ To my mind, it's all a lot of nonsense!

More examples

His mind was full of the things he had seen that day.
I need a walk to clear my mind.
[in someone’s mind] : You never know what’s going on in her mind.
Can you say that again? My mind was on something else.
[keep your mind on something] : I can’t keep my mind on work when it’s so sunny outside.
Ellen’s husband has a very suspicious mind.
A brilliant/keen mind
Her youngest child has a very enquiring mind (=is very interested in things and always asking questions).
My grandmother’s mind is failing.
He is one of the finest minds in physics today.

Synonyms

brain, intelligence, intellect, wits, brains, brainpower, psyche, mentality, adhere to, apperception, approach, attend, attend to, attention, attitude, awareness, baby-sit, be affronted, be attentive, be bothered, be careful, be cautious, be concerned, be offended, be on guard, be opposed, be solicitous, be wary, behave, behold, belief, bent, bethink, beware, boffin, bring to mind, capacity, care, care for, cite, cognizance, complain, comply, concentration, conception, consciousness, conviction, creativity, demur, deplore, desire, determination, disagree, disapprove, discern, discipline, dislike, disposition, do as told, egghead, ensure, eye, faculty, fancy, feeling, follow, follow orders, function, genius, give heed to, govern, guard, have a care, have charge of, head, heed, humor, imagination, impulse, inclination, ingenuity, instinct, intellectual, intellectuality, intention, intuition, judgment, keep, keep an eye on, leaning, liking, listen, listen up, look, look after, look askance at, look out, look out for, lucidity, make certain, marbles, mark, memory, mind one's p's and q's, mind the store, mood, note, notice, notion, obey, object, observance, observation, observe, opinion, outlook, oversee, pay attention, pay heed, perceive, perception, percipience, persuasion, pleasure, point of view, power, purpose, ratiocination, reason, reasoning, recall, recollect, recollection, regard, remark, remember, remembrance, remind, reminisce, resent, respect, retain, ride herd on, sanity, see, sense, sentiment, sit, soul, soundness, spirit, strain, subconscious, superintend, supervise, take care, take care of, take heed, take offense, talent

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