Give a poor account of oneself

Definition

account / ǝ'kaƱnt / n ၁။ ( abbr a/c ) ေငြစာရင္း။ send in an account ❍ settle one's account (ie pay what one owes) ❍ keep the accounts (ie keep a detailed record of money spent and received). See also EXPENSE Account ၂။ ( abbr a/c ) ဘဏ္စာရင္း။ have an account at/with a bank (ie keep money there and use its facilities) ❍ open/close an account. See also CURRENT Account ၃။ = CREDIT ACCOUNT ၄။ ျဖစ္စဥ္။ ျဖစ္ပ်က္ပံု။ She gave the police a full account of the incident. ❍ Don't believe the newspaper account (of what happened). v ( fml ) ယူဆသည္။ သေဘာထားသည္။ In English law a man is accounted innocent until he is proved guilty. ❏ account for sth [ PHRV ] ၁။ (က) အေၾကာင္းရင္း ျဖစ္သည္။ His illness accounts for his absence. (ခ) ေျဖရွင္းသည္။ အေၾကာင္းျပသည္။ Please account for your disgraceful conduct. ၂။ ထည့္တြက္သည္။ She hadn't accounted for becoming ill during the trip. ၃။ စာရင္း ေပါက္သည္။ The Japanese market accounted for 35% of total sales. ❏ account for sb/sth [ PHRV ] ၁။ (အေသအေပ်ာက္ စသည္) စာရင္းရသည္။ ရွာေတြ႕သည္။ All passengers and crew on the stricken ship have now been accounted for. ❍ Three files cannot be accounted for. ၂။ ( infml ) အျပတ္ရွင္းလိုက္သည္။ Our anti-aircraft guns accounted for five enemy bombers. ❏ account for sth ( to sb ) [ PHRV ] စာရင္း တင္ျပသည္။ ရွင္းျပသည္။ We are required to account (to the company) for every penny we spend on business trips. ❏ by/ from all accounts [ IDM ] ၾကားရသေရြ႕ေတာ့။ I've never been there, but it is, by all accounts, a lovely place. ❏ by one's own account [ IDM ] ျပန္လည္ေျပာဆိုခ်က္ အရ။ အေျပာအရ။ By his own account he had a rather unhappy childhood. ❏ give a good, splendid, etc account of oneself [ IDM ] အစြမ္းျပႏိုင္ခဲ့ (သည္၊ ၍)။ Our team gave a splendid account of themselves to win the match. ❏ give a poor account of oneself [ IDM ] အစြမ္းမျပႏိုင္ခဲ့ (ဘဲ၊ ၍၊ သျဖင့္)။ ❏ on account [ IDM ] ၁။ ႀကိဳတင္ေငြအျဖစ္။ စရန္ေငြအျဖစ္။ I'll give you K 1,000 on account. ၂။ အေႂကြးစနစ္ျဖင့္။ buy sth on account. ❏ on sb's account [ IDM ] အတြက္ေၾကာင့္။ ေၾကာင့္ျဖင့္။ Don't change your plans on my account. ❏ on account of sth; on this/that account [ IDM ] အေၾကာင္းေၾကာင့္။ ေၾကာင့္။ အတြက္။ We delayed our departure on account of the bad weather. ❏ on no account; not on any account [ IDM ] မည္သည့္ အေၾကာင္းႏွင့္မွ်။ ဘာေၾကာင့္ပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္။ Don't on any account leave the house unlocked. ❏ on one's own account [ IDM ] ၁။ မိမိဘာသာ။ မိမိ အတြက္။ work on one's own account. ၂။ မိမိအတြက္မိမိ။ I was worried on my own account, not yours. ❏ put/turn sth to good account [ IDM ] ေကာင္းစြာ အသံုးခ်သည္။ He turned his artistic gifts to good account by becoming a sculptor. ❏ settle/square an account/one's account(s) (with sb) [ IDM ] လက္စားေခ်သည္။ စာရင္းရွင္းသည္။ ❏ take account of sth; take sth into account [ IDM ] ထည့္သြင္းစဥ္းစားသည္။ ထည့္တြက္သည္။ You must take his age into account when you judge his performance. ❏ there's no accounting for taste [ IDM ] ( saying ) ရွမ္းႀကိဳက္ရင္ႏြားေခ်ာ ဆိုသလိုပါပဲ။ ထန္းပလပ္ နတ္႐ုပ္ထင္ ဆိုသလိုေပါ့။ She thinks he's wonderful — oh well, there's no accounting for taste (ie I don't like him and cannot understand why she does).

Examples

1. There was only £50 in his bank account.
2. An overdrawn account (=one from which you have taken more money than you have put in)
3. [open an account] : How do I open an account (=start having an account) with your bank?
4. The accounts showed a loss of £498 million.
5. I have an account with Marks and Spencer.
6. [settle an account] : I’ll settle my account in the morning.
7. We now have over 30 major accounts.
8. Do you have an email account?
9. [account of] : A brief account of the meeting
10. [give an account of something] : He was too shocked to give a clear account of events.
11. [eyewitness account] : An eyewitness account of a brutal beating
12. The study aims to give an account of modern attitudes towards democracy.
13. Both Sourav and Shreyansh are voracious readers and they can turn such reading skills to good account in their economic research.