Dictionary entry

Familiarity breeds contempt

Pronunciation

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Myanmar Meaning

[IDM ] (saying ) အရောဝင်အရိုသေတန်။ ခွေးကလေးအရောဝင် ပါးလျက်၊ နားလျက်။

Definition

familiarity / fǝmÇli'ærǝti / n [U] ၁။ ~ with sth အကြၽမ္းဝင္ျခင္း။ His familiarity with the local languages surprised me. ၂။ ~ ( to/towards sb ) ( sometimes derog ) အေရာဝင္ျခင္း။ ေရာင့္တက္ျခင္း။ မေလးမစား ဆက္ဆံျခင္း။ You should not address your teacher with such familiarity. ❏ familiarity breeds contempt [ IDM ] ( saying ) အေရာဝင္အ႐ိုေသတန္။ ေခြးကေလးအေရာဝင္ ပါးလ်က္၊ နားလ်က္။

Examples

  1. [familiarity with] : Applicants should demonstrate a familiarity with housing law.
  2. [familiarity of] : She enjoyed the familiarity of being with Phillip.