Dog days

Definition

dog /dɒg; US dↄ:g/ n ၁။ [C] (က) ေခြး။ take the dog for a walk ❍ guard dogs ❍ dogs barking. See also GUN DOG (ခ) ေခြးထီး။ ဝံပုေလြထီး။ ေျမေခြးထီး။ Compare BITCH ၁ (ဂ) the dogs [pl] ( Brit infml ) ေခြးေျပးၿပိဳင္ပြဲ။ ေခြးပြဲ။ I won £50 on the dogs. ၂။ [C] (usu following an adj ) ( infml ) ဆိုးယုတ္ေသာေယာက်္ား။ You dirty dog! ဟဲ့ ေခြး တိရစၧာန္။ ၃။ [C] ( US sl ) ညံ့ျခင္း။ မေအာင္ျမင္ျခင္း။ Her last film was an absolute dog. သူေနာက္ဆံုး႐ိုက္တဲ့ ကား ကေတာ့ ဖြတ္ပဲ။ See also TOP DOG v ( -gg- ) (က) တေကာက္ေကာက္လိုက္သည္။ ကပ္လိုက္သည္။ dog sb's footsteps. (ခ) (အကုသိုလ္) ထက္ၾကပ္လိုက္သည္။ Her career was dogged by misfortune. ❏ dog-biscuit n ေခြးစာဘီစကြတ္။ ❏ dog-collar n ၁။ ေခြးလည္ပတ္။ ၂။ ( infml ) ခရစ္ယာန္ ဘုန္းေတာ္ႀကီး လည္၌တပ္ဆင္သည့္ ေကာ္လာျဖဴအမာ။ ❏ dog days n [pl] တစ္ႏွစ္တြင္ အပူဆံုးကာလ။ ❏ dog-eared adj ေထာင့္လိပ္ေနေသာ၊ ေပလိပ္ေနေသာ (စာရြက္မ်ား)။ ❏ (a case of) dog eat dog [ IDM ] ဇာတ္တူသားစားသည္။ ❏ dog-end n ( Brit ) စီးကရက္တို။ ❏ a dog in the manger [ IDM ] ေကာက္႐ိုးပံုေစာင့္ေခြး။ Don't be such a/so dog in the manger! ❏ dog-leg n တစ္ဆစ္ခ်ဳိး (ေဂါက္ကြင္းမ်ား၌ ေတြ႕ရ ေလ့ရိွသည္)။ ❏ dog-paddle (also doggie-paddle ) n [U] ေခြးကူး။ ❏ a dog's breakfast/dinner [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) အိုးနင္း ခြက္နင္း။ ကေမာက္ကမ။ He's made a real dog's breakfast of these accounts. ❏ a dog's life [ IDM ] ဒုကၡသုကၡမ်ားေသာဘဝ။ ႏံုခ်ာေသာဘဝ။ ❏ dog-tired adj အလြန္ေမာပန္းေသာ။ လွ်ာထြက္ေနေသာ။ ❏ every dog has his/its day [ IDM ] ( saying ) တစ္သက္မွာ တစ္ခါေတာ့ ကံထစၿမဲ။ ❏ give a dog a bad name [ IDM ] ( saying ) တစ္ခါ နာမည္ပ်က္ တစ္သက္ျပန္မေကာင္းႏိုင္။ ❏ go to the dogs [ IDM ] ( infml ) ပ်က္စီးသည္။ က်ဆင္းသည္။ ငါးပါးေမွာက္သည္။ ေခြးက်က်သည္။ This firm's gone to the dogs since the new management took over! ❏ not have a dog's chance [ IDM ] အခြင့္အလမ္း လံုးဝ မရိွျခင္း။ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ခ်က္ လံုးဝမရိွျခင္း။ He hasn't a dog's chance of passing the exam.

Examples

1. Have you fed the dog?
2. Out on the street
3. a dog began to bark.
4. Dog food/biscuits
5. A dog fox
6. I invested in an Internet start-up but it turned out to be a real dog.
7. For those of us who want to change the European Union into a democratic Europe run in the interests of working people
8. we have no dog in this pathetic fight.
9. I haven't seen you in a dog's age