At a pinch

Definition

pinch /pÇntʃ/ v ၁။ (က) လက္မႏွင့္လက္ညိႇဳးျဖင့္ ဖိညႇပ္သည္။ He pinched the child's cheek playfully. ❍ To stop a bleeding nose, tilt the head back and pinch the nostrils together. (ခ) (လက္သည္းျဖင့္) ဆိတ္သည္။ The little girl was crying because somebody had pinched her. ❍ I was so amazed I had to pinch myself in case it was all a dream. (ဂ) ညႇပ္သည္။ ညပ္သြားသည္။ The door pinched my finger as it shut. ၂။ (ဖိနပ္ေပါက္၍) နာသည္။ These new shoes pinch (me). ၃။ ~ sth (from sb/sth) ( Brit infml ) လစ္သည္။ အလစ္သုတ္သည္။ ခိုးသည္။ He's been pinching money from the cashbox. ❍ Who's pinched my dictionary? n ၁။ ဆိတ္ျခင္း။ She gave him a pinch (on the arm) to wake him up. ၂။ တစ္ဆိတ္စာ။ တစ္တို႔။ Add a pinch of salt. ❏ at a pinch [ IDM ] ( infml ) မျဖစ္မေနဆိုလွ်င္။ အက်ပ္ အတည္း ျဖစ္ေနရင္။ We can get six people round this table, at a pinch. ❏ pinched adj (ေအး၍၊ ဆာေလာင္၍၊ ပူပန္၍) မ်က္ႏွာ႐ံႈ႕တြ ျဖဴေရာ္ေနေသာ။ her thin pinched features. ❏ pinch sth off/out [ PHRV ] ဆိတ္ေႁခြသည္။ pinch off the dead flowers. ❏ take sth with a pinch of salt [ IDM ] သံုးခြက္ တစ္ခြက္တင္ ခ်င့္ယံု။

Examples

1. Roger pinched my arm.
2. To zoom in to the picture
3. touch the screen with your finger and thumb and pinch them apart.