Fly-past

Definition

fly 1 /flaÇ / v ( pt flew /flu: /; pp flown / flǝƱn /) ၁။ ပ်ံသန္းသည္။ watch the birds learn to fly ❍ A wasp flew into the room. ၂။ (က) ပ်ံသန္းသည္။ a plane flying from London to New York ❍ fly at the speed of sound ❍ I can hear a plane flying overhead. (ခ) ေလယာဥ္ခရီးသြားသည္။ ေလယာဥ္စီးသည္။ I’m flying to Hong Kong tomorrow. ❍ Is this the first time that you've flown? ❍ TRAVEL ၃။ (က) ေလယာဥ္ေမာင္းသည္။ ေလယာဥ္ကို ပ်ံသန္းသည္။ a pilot trained to fly large passenger aircraft. (ခ) ေလယာဥ္ျဖင့္ ပို႔ေဆာင္သည္။ ေလယာဥ္ျဖင့္ တင္သည္။ The stranded tourists were finally flown home. ❍ He had flowers specially flown in for the ceremony. (ဂ) ျဖတ္သန္းပ်ံသန္းသည္။ fly the Atlantic. ၄။ (က) အေျပး အလႊား သြားသည္။ တစ္ဟုန္ထိုး ေျပးသည္။ It's late—I must fly. ❍ The train was flying along. ❍ The dog flew down the road after the cat. (ခ) လြင့္စဥ္သည္။ A large stone came flying (in) through the window. ❍ David gave the door a kick and it flew open. (ဂ) (အခ်ိန္) အလြန္ ကုန္လြယ္သည္။ Doesn't time fly? ❍ Summer has just flown by. ၅။ (က) (စြန္ စသည္) လႊတ္တင္သည္၊ ပ်ံသည္။ (ခ) (အလံ) လႊင့္သည္။ fly the Union Jack / Stars and Stripes. ၆။ တလူလူလြင့္သည္။ လြင့္စဥ္သည္။ hair flying (about) in the wind ❍ be hit by flying glass. ၇။ ( rhet ) ထြက္ေျပးသည္။ Both suspects have flown the country. ၈။ (ေကာလာဟလစသည္) ပ်ံ႕လြင့္သည္။ There are lots of rumours flying (around) at the moment. n ၁။ [sing] (also flies [pl]) ( Brit ) ေဘာင္းဘီ ခြဆံု အထက္ လွ်ာဆက္။ John, your flies are / fly is undone! ၂။ [C] ရြက္ဖ်င္တဲဝ ဖ်င္စအဖံုး။ ❏ fly at sb [ PHRV ] ႐ုတ္တရက္ တိုက္ခိုက္သည္။ He flew at me without warning. ❏ fly-away /'flaÇ ǝweÇ / adj (esp of hair) ႏူးညံ့ေပ်ာ့ေပ်ာင္း လြင့္ပါးေသာ။ ❏ fly-by /'flaÇ baÇ / n ( pl fly -bys ) ( US ) = FLY-PAST ❏ fly-by-night /'flaÇ baÇ naÇt / adj (ဗန္း) ႐ိုက္စား။ fly-by-night operators. ❏ fly high [ IDM ] ေအာင္ျမင္သည္။ ❏ fly in the face of sth [ IDM ] ဆန္႔က်င္ဘက္ ျဖစ္သည္။ ကဏၬေကာစလုပ္သည္။ Such a proposal is flying in the face of common sense. ❏ fly into a passion, rage, temper, etc [ IDM ] ေပါက္ကြဲသည္။ ယမ္းပံုမီးက်ျဖစ္သည္။ He always flies into a rage when he can't have his own way. ❏ fly a kite [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) ေသြးတိုးစမ္း ၾကည့္သည္။ ❏ (go) fly a/one's kite [ IDM ] ( US infml ) (esp imperative) သြားစမ္းကြာ။ အသာေနစမ္းကြာ။ ❏ fly off the handle [ IDM ] ( infml ) ယမ္းပံု မီးက်ျဖစ္သည္။ (ေဒါသ)ေပါက္ကြဲသည္။ ❏ fly-past /-pɑ:st; US -pæst / ( Brit ) ( US fly-by, fly-over) n အေလးျပဳပ်ံသန္းျပျခင္း။ အလွျပ ပ်ံသန္းျခင္း။ ❏ let fly (at sb/sth) (with sth) [ IDM ] ထိုးသည္။ ပစ္သည္။ (ဆဲ)လႊတ္သည္။ He let fly at me with his fist. ❍ She let fly (at him) with a stream of abuse. fly 2 /flaÇ / n ၁။ ယင္ေကာင္။ a house-fly ❍ fly-spray (ie for killing flies). ❍ INSECT See also FRUIT-FLY ၂။ ယင္ေကာင္။ ယင္ေကာင္ပံု ငါးစာ။ ❏ die / fall / drop like flies [ IDM ] တျဖဳတ္ျဖဳတ္လဲသည္။ People were dropping like flies in the intense heat. ❏ fly-blown adj ညစ္ပတ္ေပေရေနေသာ။ Everything in the shop looked rather fly-blown. ❏ fly-fishing n [U] ယင္ေကာင္ပံု ငါးစာပါ ငါးမွ်ားခ်ိတ္ျဖင့္ ငါးမွ်ားျခင္း။ ❏ a/the fly in the ointment [ IDM ] သာသနာဖ်က္။ ပြဲဖ်က္။ ❏ a fly on the wall [ IDM ] တိတ္တခိုး ေခ်ာင္းသူ။ I wish I could be a fly on the wall when they discuss my future. ❏ fly-paper n [U] ယင္ဖမ္းေစးႏွဲစကၠဴ။ ❏ (there are) no flies on sb [ IDM ] ( infml ) အႏွပ္ခံမည့္သူမဟုတ္။ ❏ not harm/hurt a fly [ IDM ] ပါးစပ္ထဲ လက္ညိႇဳး ထည့္ ေတာင္ ကိုက္မည့္သူမဟုတ္။ Our dog may look fierce but he wouldn’t hurt a fly.

Examples

1. Sometimes it’s cheaper to fly.
2. [fly from/to] : I flew from London to Amsterdam to meet the other members of the group.
3. [fly into] : We flew into Heathrow on Monday evening.
4. The bombers were flying over enemy territory.
5. They flew her home for urgent medical treatment.
6. [fly someone/something in/out] : Helicopters are helping to fly out survivors.
7. He had always wanted to learn to fly.
8. My grandfather flew bombers during the war.
9. A pilot who flew over 100 missions
10. I’m flying British Airways this time.
11. How long does it take to fly the Atlantic?
12. Not all insects can fly.
13. [fly past/over/up etc] : A huge eagle came flying past.
14. White gulls flew over our heads.
15. [fly past/by/towards/into] : A bullet flew past his head.
16. Pieces of glass and concrete were flying in all directions.
17. [fly into/along/through/out] : We flew into each other’s arms.
18. Sheila flew along the corridor to the control room.
19. [fly open] : The door flew open and the head teacher marched in.
20. She stood on the clifftop
21. her grey hair flying in the wind.
22. Some of the buildings were flying the French flag.
23. Every American school has a national flag flying outside it.
24. Perfect weather for flying kites
25. [fly by] : Six months flew by
26. and it was time to come home again.
27. [fly past] : The weekend with her family seemed to fly past.
28. The fire was so suspicious that rumours started flying almost immediately.
29. [fly around/about] : There are a lot of wild theories flying around.
30. It’s a great idea
31. but will it fly?
32. [fly the country] : Thousands flew the country when he came to power.