By the skin of one's teeth

Definition

skin /skÇn/ n ၁။ [U,C usu sing ] အသားအေရ။ အေရျပား။ အေရခြံ။ have a dark/an olive/a fair skin ❍ oily/dry skin ❍ She has beautiful skin. ❍ a skin disease. ၂။ [C,U] (often in compounds) သားေရ။ (အ)ေရခြံ။ skins laid out to dry ❍ a rabbit-skin. Compare FUR ၁, HIDE 2 See also CALFSKIN, PIGSKIN, SHEEPSKIN, WINESKIN ၃။ (က) [C,U] (သစ္သီးသစ္ဥ)အခြံ။ a banana skin ❍ onion/potato skins. Compare PEEL n , RIND, ZEST ၃ (ခ) [C,U] (ဝက္အူေခ်ာင္း စသည္လုပ္ရန္)အေရခြံ။ Prick the skins before grilling. (ဂ) [C sing ] ကိုယ္ထည္အခြံ။ the metal skin of an aircraft. ၄။ [C,U] အရည္ထု၏ မ်က္ႏွာျပင္တြင္ တင္းလာေသာ ၾကက္တက္ရည္ အပ်ဥ္အျပန္႔။ the skin on a milk pudding ❍ a skin forming on paint in a pot. v ( -nn- ) (က) အေရခြံခြာသည္။ အေရဆုတ္သည္။ skin a rabbit. (ခ) အေရစုတ္၊ အေရလန္သည္။ I skinned my elbow against the wall. ❏ be no skin off one's nose [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဘာမွ်ျဖစ္ မသြား။ ကိစၥမရိွ။ အေၾကာင္းမဟုတ္။ It's no skin off my nose if you waste your money. ❏ by the skin of one's teeth [ IDM ] ( infml ) ပြတ္ကာ သီကာ။ pass an exam by the skin off one's teeth ❍ He escaped death by the skin of his teeth. ❏ get under sb's skin [ IDM ] ( infml ) ၁။ ကြၽဲၿမီးတိုေစ သည္။ His endless complaints are getting under my skin. ၂။ သေဘာေတြ႕သည္။ The charm of the place soon gets under your skin. ❏ have got sb under one's skin [ IDM ] ( infml ) အလြန္ စြဲလမ္းၿငိတြယ္သည္။ တမ္းတမ္းစြဲျဖစ္သည္။ ❏ skin sb alive [ IDM ] [ဥ] (အေရခြံ)ႏႊာသည္။ Your father'll skin you alive when he sees this! ဒါ ေတြ႕သြားလို႔ ကေတာ့ မင့္အေဖမင့္ကို ေကာင္းေကာင္း ႏႊာၿပီးသားပဲ။ ❏ (nothing but / all) skin and bone [ IDM ] ( infml ) အ႐ိုးေပၚအေရတင္။ He was all skin and bone after his illness. ❏ skin-deep adj အေပၚယံမွ်ျဖစ္ေသာ။ ထင္သေလာက္ အေရး မႀကီးေသာ။ ဟန္လုပ္ေသာ။ Any resentment he shows towards you is only skin-deep. ❏ skin-diving n [U] အထူးေရငုပ္ဝတ္စံုမပါဘဲ အသက္႐ႉဘူး မွ်ျဖင့္ ေရေအာက္၌ သြားလာသည့္ အားကစားနည္း။ skin-diver n ❏ skin-graft n အေရျပားအစားထိုး ကုထံုး။ ❏ -skinned (forming compound adjs ) အေရ… ေသာ။ အသား…ေသာ။ dark-/light-skinned ❍ pink-skinned. See also THICK-SKINNED ❏ skinny adj (-ier , -iest) ၁။ ( infml usu derog ) ပိန္ ကပ္ကပ္။ ပိန္ေျခာက္ေျခာက္။ a skinny child ❍ skinny legs. ၂။ ကိုယ္က်ပ္၊ အသားကပ္(အဝတ္)။ a skinny black jumper. ❍ THIN ❏ skin-tight adj အသားကပ္၊ ကိုယ္က်ပ္(အဝတ္)။ a skin-tight dress ❍ Her blouse was skin-tight. ❏ (have) a thin/ thick skin [ IDM ] [ဥ] အေရပါးသည္။ အေရထူသည္။ You need a thick skin to be a politician. ႏိုင္ငံေရးသမား ဟာအေရထူမွ။

Examples

1. She has beautiful soft skin.
2. Most snakes shed their skin several times a year.
3. [fair/dark/olive skin] : I have fair skin that burns very easily.
4. [dry/oily/sensitive skin] : A lotion specially designed for oily skin
5. [skin peels] : I got sunburnt and now my skin is peeling.
6. Skin colour
7. A skin disease
8. Skin cancer
9. A leopard skin rug
10. Banana skins are yellow.
11. Cover the custard to prevent a skin forming as it cools.