say one's piece

say /seÇ/ v (3rd pers sing pres t says /sez/ ; pt,pp said /sed)

၁။ ~ sth (to sb ) ပြောသည်။ ဆိုသည်။ ‘Hello!’ she said. ❍ Did you say £2.60 or £2.16? ❍ Be quiet, I've got something to say. ❍ Having said that (ie Despite what I have just said), I agree with your other point. ❍ She said nothing to me about it. ❍ If you damage the car, your father will have plenty to say about it (ie he will be angry). ❍ He said (that) his friend's name was Sam. ❍ They say/It's said (ie People claim) that he's a genius. ❍ He said to me that he was going to resign. ❍ He finds it hard to say what he feels. ❍ I said to myself (ie thought) ‘That can't be right!’ ❍ So you say (ie I think it may be wrong). ❍ She said to meet her here.
၂။ ဆို သည်။ say a short prayer/poem ❍ Try to say that line with more conviction.
၃။ ဆိုသည်။ ပြောသည်။ My wife thinks I'm lazy—what do you say? ❍ Say what you like (ie Although you disagree) about her, she's still a fine singer. ❍ I'll say this (for them), they're a very efficient company. ❍ I can't say I blame her for resigning (ie I think she was justified). ❍ I would say he's right. ❍ I say (ie suggest) we go without them. ❍ I wouldn't say they were rich (ie In my opinion they are not rich). ❍ It's hard to say what caused the accident. ❍ ‘When will the picture be finished?’ ‘I couldn't/can't say (ie I don't know). ’
၄။ (no passive) ဆို(ပါစို့)။ You could learn to play chess in, (let's) say, three months. ❍ Let's take any writer, say (ie for example) Dickens… ❍ Say (that) you lose your job: what would you do then?
၅။ ~ sth (to sb) ဆိုလိုသည်။ This poem doesn't say much to me. ❍ Just what is the artist trying to say in her work? ❍ Her angry glance said it all.
၆။ (no passive) အဆိုရှိသည်။ ဆိုသည်။ (ညွှန်)ပြသည်။ a notice saying ‘Keep Out’ ❍ The clock says three o'clock. ❍ The instructions say (that) we should leave it to set for four hours. ❍ The book doesn't say where he was born. ❍The guidebook says to turn left.
n [sing, U] ~ (in sth)
ပြောရေးဆိုခွင့်။ ပြောပိုင်ခွင့်။ have no/not much/some/any say (in a matter) ❍ I want a say in the management of the business.
interj (US infml )
(က) ဟေ။ ဟုတ်လား။ ‘I've just been given a pay rise’. ‘Say, that's wonderful!’
(ခ) ဟေ့။ Say! How about a Chinese meal tonight?
❏ go without saying [IDM ] ပြောစရာမလိုပါဘူး။ It goes without saying that I'll help you.
❏ have one's say [IDM ] ပြောစရာရှိတာ ပြောပဲ ပြောပါစေဦး။ Don't interrupt her — let her have her say. See also SAY ONE'S PIECE
❏ have something , nothing , etc to say for oneself [IDM ] ပြောစရာရှိ/မရှိ။ (ဘာ)ပြောဦးမှာလဲ။ She hasn't got much to say for herself (ie doesn't take part in conversation). ❍ He's got too much to say for himself (ie He talks too much about himself in a way that is annoying). ❍ You're late for work again — what have you got to say for yourself?
❏ I'll say! [IDM ] (infml ) ဟုတ်ပါ့။ မှန်ပါ့။ ‘Does she see him often?’ ‘I'll say! Nearly every day. ’
❏ I must say [IDM ] ပြောရဦးမယ်။ Well, I must say, that's the funniest thing I've heard all week.
❏ I say [IDM ] (Brit dated )
၁။ အလို။ I say! What a huge cake!
၂။ ဒီမှာ။ ဒီမယ်။ I say, can you lend me five pounds?
❏ it says a lot , very little , etc for sb/sth [IDM ] …ရဲ့ ကောင်းကွက်ကတော့ (သို့) ဆိုးချက်ကတော့ …ပါပဲ။ It says a lot for her (ie shows how patient she is) that she never lost her temper. ❍ It doesn't say much for our efficiency (ie It shows that we are not very efficient) that the order arrived a week late.
❏ I wouldn't say no (to sth) [IDM ] (infml ) ကျွန်တော့် အနေဖြင့် ငြင်းစရာမရှိပါ။ ‘Fancy some coffee?’ ‘I wouldn't say no. ’ ❍ I wouldn't say no to a pizza.
❏ least said soonest mended [IDM ] (saying ) အပြော မစွက်မှ အပြင်သွက်သည်။
❏ the less said the better ; (infml ) the least said … [IDM ] မပြောတာပဲ ကောင်းပါတယ်။ ‘How did you get on in your driving test?’ ‘The least said the better (ie I failed and I don't want to discuss it). ’
❏ let us say [IDM ] ဆိုကြစို့။ Let's say you don't get a place at university — what will you do instead?
❏ never say die [IDM ] (saying ) ငုပ်မိသဲတိုင် တက်နိုင် ဖျားရောက်။ လှေခွက်ချည်းကျန် အလံမလှဲ။ Never say die: we might still get there.
❏ not be saying much [IDM ] …လျှော့လျှော့ပေါ့ပေါ့ ပြောရရင်ပေါ့။ She's a better player than me, but as I'm no good at all, that's not saying much.
❏ not say boo to a goose ; (US ) not say boo to anyone [IDM ]
သူ့ပါးစပ်ထဲ လက်ညှိုးထည့်တောင် မကိုက်တတ်တဲ့ လူမျိုးပါ။ He's such a nervous chap he wouldn't/ couldn't say boo to a goose.
❏ not to say [IDM ]
တကယ်တမ်းဆိုရရင်။ a difficult, not to say impossible, task.
❏ one can't say fairer (than that) [IDM ] (Brit infml ) ဒါနောက်ဆုံးဈေးပါပဲ။ Look, I'll give you £100 for it. I can't say fairer than that.
❏ saying /'seÇÇŋ/ n ဆိုရိုး။ ဆိုထုံး။ ဆိုရိုးစကား။ ‘More haste, less speed,’ as the saying goes.
❏ say no (to sth) [IDM ] ငြင်းရာ။ If you don't invest in these shares, you're saying no to a potential fortune.
❏ say no more [IDM ] (infml )
သဘောပေါက်ပါပြီ၊ ဆက်မပြောပါနှင့်တော့။
‘He came home with lipstick on his face. ’ ‘Say no more!’
❏ say one's piece [IDM ] ပြောစရာရှိတာပြောပြီး။ Once I'd said my piece I wasn't quite so annoyed with her. See also HAVE ONE'S SAY
❏ say-so n [sing] (infml )
၁။ အပြော။ Don't take it just on my say-so — see for yourself.
၂။ ခွင့်ပြုချက်။ He can't do it without the say-so of all twelve of the directors.
❏ say what? [IDM ] (US sl ) ဘာတဲ့။ ‘He's getting married. ’ ‘Say what?’
❏ say when [IDM ] (အရက်ငှဲ့ပေးရာ၊ စားဖွယ် ခူးခပ် ပေးရာ၌) တော်ရင်ပြောနော်။
❏ say the word [IDM ] ပြောသာပြောလိုက်ပါ။ Just say the word, and I'll go.
❏ that is to say [IDM ] တစ်နည်းအားဖြင့်ဆိုရင်။ three days from now, that's to say on Friday.
❏ to say the least [IDM ] တကယ်ပါပဲ။ အဟုတ်ပါပဲ။ I was surprised at what he said, to say the least.
❏ to say nothing of sth [IDM ] ထည့်မတွက်နှင့်ဦးတော့။ အသာထားဦးတော့။ Her knowledge and experience were invaluable, to say nothing of her kindness and courtesy. သူငဲ့ညှာတတ်ပုံနှင့် သိမ်မွေ့ပုံတွေကို ဘေးချိတ်ထားဦးတော့၊ သူ့ပညာနှင့် အတွေ့အကြုံအရကိုပဲ တန်ဖိုးမဖြတ်နိုင်ပါဘူး။
See also NOT TO MENTION (MENTION)
❏ you can say that again [IDM ] ဟုတ်ပါ့။ မှန်ပါ့။ ‘He's in a bad mood today. ’ ‘You can say that again!’
❏ you don't say! [IDM ] (infml ) ဘယ်လိုပြောလိုက်တယ်။ ‘We're going to get married. ’ ‘You don't say!’
❏ you said it! [IDM ] (infml ) သွေးထွက်အောင် မှန်ပါပေ့။ ‘The food was awful!’ ‘You said it!’ ❍ ‘I looked a right fool wearing that Donald Duck outfit. ’ ‘You said it!’
❏ well said! [IDM ] ဟုတ်လိုက်လေ။ မှန်လိုက်လေ။ ‘I believe we must stand up for ourselves. ’ ‘Well said, John. ’
❏ what do/would you say (to sth/doing sth)? [IDM ] … မကောင်းဘူးလား။ ဘယ့်နှယ်လဲ။ Let's go to Mexico together. What do you say? ❍ What do you say to going to the theatre tonight? ❍ What would you say to a whisky?
❏ what/whatever sb says goes [IDM ] (infml ) သူဘာမဆို ပြောလျှင်ပြီးသည်။ My wife wants the kitchen painted white, and what she says goes.
❏ when all is said and done [IDM ] နောက်ဆုံး စာရင်း ချုပ်လိုက်တော့။ I know you're upset, but when all's said and done it isn't exactly a disaster.