Cat-o'-nine-tails

Definition

cat /kæt/ n ၁။ [C] ေၾကာင္။ We've got three cats and a dog. ❍ cat food. ၂။ [C] (ေၾကာင္မ်ဳိးဝင္) ျခေသၤ့၊ က်ား၊ က်ားသစ္ စသည္။ big cats (ie lions, tigers, leopards, etc). ❏ be the cat's whiskers/pyjamas [ IDM ] ( infml ) မိမိ ကိုယ္မိမိ အထင္ႀကီးသည္။ He thinks he's the cat's whiskers (ie has a high opinion of himself). ❏ has the cat got your tongue? [ IDM ] (ကေလးကိုေမး၍ အေျဖမရေသာအခါ ေျပာေသာစကား)။ မင္း စကားမေျပာတတ္ ေတာ့ဘူးလား။ အ ေနသလား။ ❏ not have a cat in hell's chance (of doing sth) [ IDM ] ( infml ) ျဖစ္ႏိုင္စရာလံုးဝမရိွ။ You haven't got a cat in hell's chance of winning. ❏ let the cat out of the bag [ IDM ] လွ်ဳိ႕ဝွက္ခ်က္ကို လႊတ္ ခနဲေျပာမိသည္။ I wanted mother's present to be a secret, but my sister let the cat out of the bag. ❏ like a cat on hot bricks [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဂနာမၿငိမ္ျဖစ္ ေနသည္။ He was like a cat on hot bricks before his driving test. ❏ look like sth the cat brought in [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေပေပ ေရေရ မသပ္မရပ္ ဝတ္စားထားသူ။ ❏ play cat and mouse/play a cat-and-mouse game with sb [ IDM ] ( infml ) ကိုယ့္လက္ခုပ္ထဲ ေရာက္ေနသူကို အမ်ဳိးမ်ဳိးညႇဥ္းဆဲသည္။ ❏ put/set the cat among the pigeons [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) ႏြားအုပ္ထဲ က်ားလႊတ္ေပးလိုက္သကဲ့သို႔ လုပ္သည္။ ❏ when the cat's away, the mice will play [ IDM ] ( saying ) ေၾကာင္မရိွႂကြက္ထ။ ❏ cat burglar n အိမ္တက္ခိုးသူ။ သူခိုးငတက္ျပား။ ❏ cat-o'-nine-tails n [sing] ေထာင္သားမ်ားကို ႐ိုက္ရာတြင္သံုး သည့္ ႀကိဳးကိုးေခ်ာင္းပါေသာ က်ာပြတ္။ ❏ cat's cradle n ႀကိဳးကြင္းကို လက္ေခ်ာင္းကေလးမ်ားျဖင့္ ပံု ေဖာ္ကစားနည္း။ ❏ Cat's-eye n ( Brit propr ) ညအခါ လမ္းေၾကာင္းျပရန္ လမ္းမ်က္ႏွာျပင္၌ ျမႇဳပ္ထားေသာ ေရာင္ျပန္ဖန္ခ်ပ္။

Examples

1. cat /kæt/ n ၁။ [C] ေၾကာင္။ We've got three cats and a dog.