Every cloud has a silver lining

Definition

cloud /klaƱd/ n ၁။ [C, U] တိမ္။ a thick bank of clouds ❍ black clouds appearing from the west ❍ There wasn't a cloud in the sky. ❍ The top of the mountain was covered in cloud. ၂။ [C] (က) မီးခိုးလံုး၊ ဖုန္လံုး စသည္။ (ခ) ပ်ံသန္းေနေသာ က်ဳိင္း ေကာင္အုပ္စသည္။ a cloud of locusts. ၃။ [C] [ဥ] ျမဴတိမ္။ အေမွာင္ထု။ A cloud of suspicion is hanging over him. ❍ Her arrival cast a cloud (of gloom) over the party. ❍ The only cloud on the horizon (ie cause for worry) is their lack of money. v ၁။ ဖံုးအုပ္ေနသည္။ မၾကည္မလင္ျဖစ္သည္။ Her eyes clouded with tears. ❍ Tears clouded her eyes. ❍ Steam clouded the mirror. ❍ ( fig ) Old age has clouded his judgement. ❍ Don't cloud the issue (ie Don't try to take attention away from what is important). ၂။ ~ (over) မ်က္ႏွာ၌ (ဝမ္းနည္းရိပ္၊ ေသာကရိပ္၊ ေဒါသရိပ္ စသည္) လႊမ္းသည္။ His face clouded (over) when he heard the news. ၃။ ဖ်က္လိုဖ်က္ဆီးလုပ္သည္။ cloud sb's enjoyment/happiness. ❏ cloud- cuckoo-land ( Brit ) ( US cloud-land ) n [U] ( derog ) စိတ္ကူးယဥ္အိပ္မက္။ You're in cloud-cuckoo-land if you think they'll pay you any more money. ❏ cloudless adj တိမ္ျမဴကင္းစင္ေသာ။ a cloudless sky. ❏ cloudy adj ( -ier , -iest ) ၁။ တိမ္ထူေသာ။ a cloudy sky. ၂။ မၾကည္ေသာ (အရည္)။ The water looked cloudy and not fit to drink. cloudiness n [U] ❏ cloud over [ PHRV ] တိမ္ရိပ္မ်ားတက္လာသည္။ It started to cloud over in the afternoon. ❏ every cloud has a silver lining [ IDM ] ( saying ) ကံဆိုးမိုးေမွာင္ဟူသမွ်၌ ေျဖသိမ့္စရာ၊ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္စရာ ေရာင္ျခည္ ကေလးမ်ား ရိွတတ္စၿမဲ။ ❏ on cloud nine [ IDM ] ( infml ) အ႐ူးအမူး ဝမ္းသာသည္။ He was on cloud nine after winning the competition. ❏ under a cloud [ IDM ] နာမည္ပ်က္ႏွင့္။ She left the company under a cloud.

Examples

1. A few white clouds drifted across the sky.
2. There’s more cloud than yesterday.
3. A dust cloud
4. [cloud of] : A huge cloud of black smoke
5. A thick cloud of flies buzzed around us.
6. A cloud of anxiety/misery/uncertainty
7. [be/cast a cloud over something] : Violent protests cast a cloud over the president’s visit.
8. [a cloud on the horizon] : The only cloud on the horizon is the possibility of a hostile takeover.