Cook the books

Definition

cook /kƱk/ v ၁။ (က) ~ sth (for sb) (ထမင္း၊ ဟင္း) ခ်က္သည္။ ေၾကာ္ေလွာ္ခ်က္ျပဳတ္သည္။ က်က္နပ္(ေစ)သည္။ Where did you learn to cook? ❍ I'm cooking for some friends tonight. ❍ These potatoes aren't (properly) cooked! ❍ a cooked breakfast ❍ He cooked me my dinner. ❍ I like to cook Chinese dishes for my family. (ခ) (အိုး)တည္သည္။ The vegetables are cooking. ❍ This kind of meat tastes better if it cooks for at least two hours. ၂။ ( infml derog ) မမွန္မကန္ မ႐ိုးမေျဖာင့္ ျပင္ဆင္ေျပာင္းလဲသည္။ (စာရင္းအင္း စသည္) လိမ္သည္။ cook the accounts/ figures. ၃။ ( infml ) (used in the continuous tenses) က်ိတ္ႀကံသည္။ အကြက္ ဆင္သည္။ ႀကံစည္မႈ အေကာင္အထည္ ေပၚလာသည္။ What's cooking? ❍ Everybody is being very secretive— there's something cooking. n ထမင္းခ်က္။ ခ်က္သူ။ employed as a cook in a hotel ❍ I'm not much of a cook (ie I don't cook well). ❍ Were you the cook? (ie Did you cook this food?) Compare CHEF ❏ cook the books [ IDM ] ( infml ) စာရင္းဇယား၊ အခ်က္ အလက္တို႔ကို လိမ္လည္ေရးသားသည္။ He cooked the books to avoid paying tax. ❏ cook-chill adj ခ်က္ၿပီးေနာက္ အေအးထဲ၌ထားၿပီးမွ တစ္ဖန္ ျပန္ေႏႊးစားရေသာ။ ခ်က္ခဲေႏႊး။ cook-chill meals ❍ cook-chill processes. ❏ cook sb's goose [ IDM ] ( infml ) အပိုင္ခ်ည္ၿပီးတုပ္ၿပီး လုပ္သည္။ When the police found his fingerprints he knew his goose was cooked (ie knew that he would be caught). ❏ cooking n [U] (က) ခ်က္ျပဳတ္ျခင္း။ အခ်က္အျပဳတ္။ ခ်က္နည္း။ She does all the cooking. ❍ Chinese cooking. (ခ) ခ်က္ျပဳတ္သည့္ အစားအစာ။ ဟင္း။ He missed his mother's cooking when he left home. adj စိမ္းစားမဟုတ္ေသာ။ ဟင္းခ်က္။ cooking apples/ oil. ❏ cook sth up [ PHRV ] ( infml ) လံၾကဳပ္ လုပ္သည္။ လုပ္ဇာတ္ခင္းသည္။ cook up an excuse / a story / a theory. ❏ too many cooks spoil the broth [ IDM ] ( saying ) ဆရာမ်ား၍ သားေသသည္။ ငါးသိုင္းမ်ား၍ ဟင္းဟံုသည္။

Examples

1. Cook the apple slowly until it is soft.
2. When did you learn to cook?
3. [cook something for someone] : Joe’s cooking dinner for me tonight.
4. [cook someone something] : He offered to cook me lunch.
5. The potatoes need to cook for about 20 minutes.
6. They cooked the scripts to make Adams look stupid.