A safe bet

Definition

safe /seÇf/ adj ( -r , -st ) ၁။ ~ (from sth/ sb) လံုၿခံဳေသာ။ အႏၲရာယ္မွ ကာကြယ္ထားေသာ။ be safe-from attack/ attackers ❍ You'll be safe here. ❍ Will the car be safe outside? ❍ Your secret is safe with me. ❍ They enjoyed their vacation, safe in the knowledge that friends were looking after the house. ၂။ မထိမခိုက္။ ေဘးမသီရန္မခ။ The missing child was found safe and well/ safe and sound. ❍ She got back safe from her adventure. ❍ The plane crashed but the crew are safe. ၃။ ေဘးကင္းေသာ။ အႏၲရာယ္ကင္းေသာ။ a safe car/speed/ road ❍ safer methods of testing drugs ❍ Is that ladder safe? ❍ It's not safe to go out alone at night. ❍ Are the toys safe for small children? ❍ a safe investment (ie one that will not lose money). ၄။ ကာကြယ္ထားေသာ။ လံုၿခံဳေသာ။ a safe haven for threatened species ❍ Put the key in a safe place (ie where it will not be lost or stolen). ၅။ (က) စိတ္ခ်ရေသာ။ a safe driver/ worker. (ခ) ( often derog ) စိတ္ခ်ရေသာ။ ေဘးကင္းေသာ။ a safe choice ❍ They appointed a safe person as the new manager (eg one unlikely to make changes, offend people, etc). ❍ It would be safer to allow an extra £20. ၆။ စိတ္ခ်ရေသာ။ ေဘးကင္းေသာ။ It's safe to assume that there will always be a demand for new software. ❍ a safe verdict. n အာမခံေသတၱာ။ မီးခံေသတၱာ။ ❏ be in safe hands [ IDM ] စိတ္ခ်ရသည္။ I believed he was in safe hands — I wouldn't have left him otherwise. ❏ for safe keeping [ IDM ] လံုၿခံဳေစရန္။ Before the game I gave my watch to my wife for safe keeping. ❏ in (sb's) safe keeping [ IDM ] (စိတ္ခ်လက္ခ်)အပ္ႏွံလ်က္။ Can I leave the children in your safe keeping? ❏ on the safe side [ IDM ] စိတ္ခ်ရေအာင္။ Although the sun was shining, I took an umbrella (just) to be on the safe side. ❏ play (it) safe [ IDM ] စိတ္ခ်ရေအာင္။ The roads might be busy, so we'd better play safe and catch the earlier bus. ❏ (as) safe as houses [ IDM ] စိတ္ခ်ရေသာ။ Don't worry, their jobs are safe as houses. ❏ a safe bet [ IDM ] ေသခ်ာေပါက္ မမွားႏိုင္တာ(က)။ A black dress is always a safe bet. ❍ It's a safe bet that the problem will get worse. ❏ safe conduct n (က) [U] အေႏွာင့္အယွက္မဲ့ သြားပိုင္ခြင့္။ The robbers wanted safe conduct to the air port for themselves and their hostages. (ခ) [C] အေႏွာင့္အယွက္မဲ့ သြားပိုင္ခြင့္အမိန္႔။ ❏ safe deposit n အာမခံေသတၱာမ်ားထားရာ အေဆာက္အအံု။ ❏ safe-deposit box n (တစ္ဦးဆိုင္) အာမခံေသတၱာ။ ❏ safe house n (ရန္သူ၊ အာဏာပိုင္တို႔၏ ဖမ္းဆီးျခင္းမွ) လံုၿခံဳစြာ ခိုေအာင္းႏိုင္ေသာ အိမ္။ ❏ safely adv ၁။ (က) ေဘးမသီရန္မခ။ They arrived home safely. (ခ) ေဘးကင္းေအာင္။ Drive safely! ❍ Broken bottles should be safely disposed of. (ဂ) လံုလံု ၿခံဳၿခံဳ။ The original disks are locked away safely. ၂။ ေသခ်ာေပါက္။ We can safely say/ assume that he will accept the job. ၃။ သံသယရွင္းရွင္းႏွင့္။ These recommendations can safely be ignored. ၄။ အေသအခ်ာ။ He's now safely dead and buried. ❍ The exams are safely over. ❏ the safe period n [sing] သေႏၶမတည္ႏိုင္ေသာ ကာလ။ ❏ safe seat n ( Brit ) ေသခ်ာေပါက္ အေရြးခံရမည့္မဲဆႏၵနယ္။ ❏ safe sex n [U] (လိင္ဆက္ဆံျခင္းျဖင့္ ကူးစက္ႏိုင္ေသာ ေရာဂါမွ ကာကြယ္ရန္) လိင္တံစြပ္သံုး၍ ဆက္ဆံျခင္း။

Examples

1. Will my car be safe if I park it in the street?
2. [safe from] : It’s difficult to make airports safe from terrorist attacks.
3. [keep something safe] : Make sure to keep your credit card safe.
4. We live in a very safe neighbourhood.
5. A safe environment for children
6. [a safe distance] : We admired the bear and her cub from a safe distance.
7. Travelling by plane is much safer than driving your own car.
8. The area behind the fence is not considered to be safe.
9. Is the ride safe enough for a 5-year-old?
10. Rescuers found the children safe but scared inside the house.
11. [safe and sound] : Everyone arrived safe and sound.
12. [safe return/arrival] : They are demanding the release and safe return of the hostages.
13. Government bonds are a very safe investment.
14. Don’t mention the election to him; it’s not a safe subject.
15. Your shoes are so safe.