Grasp the nettle

Definition

grasp / grɑ:sp; US græsp / v ၁။ (က) ဆုပ္ကိုင္သည္။ ဖမ္းဆုပ္သည္။ She grasped the rope and pulled herself up. ❍ He grasped my hand warmly (eg as a sign of friendship). ❍ He grasped her firmly by the arm. (ခ) (အခြင့္အလမ္း စသည္ကို) အမိအရ ယူသည္၊ မလြတ္စတမ္း အသံုးခ်သည္။ grasp an opportunity. ၂။ နားလည္ သေဘာေပါက္သည္။ I don't think you've quite grasped the seriousness of the situation. ❍ She never could grasp how to do it. n (usu sing ) ၁။ (က) ဆုပ္ကိုင္ျခင္း။ ဖမ္းဆုပ္ျခင္း။ Take a good grasp of the handle and pull. ❍ I grabbed him but he wriggled out of my grasp. (ခ) လက္တြင္း။ လက္ထဲ။ Election victory was within their grasp. ❍ Don't let the situation slip/ escape from your grasp. ၂။ နားလည္ သေဘာေပါက္မႈ။ difficulties within/ beyond one's grasp ❍ She has a good grasp of the subject. ❏ grasp the nettle [ IDM ] ( Brit ) ရဲရဲရင့္ရင့္ ျပတ္ျပတ္ သားသား ေျဖရွင္းသည္။ ❏ grasp at sth [ PHRV ] ဖမ္းဆုပ္သည္။ အသံုးခ်သည္။ grasp at a swinging rope ❍ He was ready to grasp at any means to defeat his opponents.

Examples

1. She grasped his hand and pulled him towards her.
2. [grasp someone by the shoulders/arm/wrist etc] : He grasped her firmly by the shoulders.
3. He was finding it difficult to grasp the rules of the game.
4. [grasp the meaning/significance of something] : You should try to grasp the meaning of whole sentences.
5. [grasp a concept/principle/point] : Charlie grasped the point at once.
6. We must grasp every opportunity if we are going to succeed.
7. He had failed to grasp his one chance of happiness.