Have eyes in the back of one's head

Definition

eye /aÇ/ n ၁။ (က) မ်က္စိ။ မ်က္လံုး။ I can't see out of this eye. ❍ She opened/ closed her eyes. ❍ He is blind in one eye. ❍ He lost an eye in the war. ❍ I have something in my eye. ❍ have an eye operation ❍ His eyes fell upon (ie He suddenly noticed) an advertisement in the magazine. (ခ) မ်က္လံုးအေရာင္။ have blue eyes. ၂။ (က) [often pl ] အျမင္အား။ မ်က္စိေကာင္းျခင္း။ You must have sharp eyes to be able to spot such a tiny detail. ❍ The eyes often deteriorate as one gets older. (ခ) [usu sing ] မ်က္စိလ်င္ ျခင္း။ ျမင္တတ္ျခင္း။ To her expert eye, the painting was clearly a fake. ❍ She has a good eye for a bargain. ၃။ မ်က္စိႏွင့္ တူေသာ အေပါက္၊ အဖု။ The eye of a needle (ie the hole for the thread to go through) ❍ a hook and eye (ie a fastening with a hook and loop for a dress, etc) ❍ the eye of a potato (ie a point from which a shoot will grow). v ( pres p eyeing or eying ) ၾကည့္သည္။ He eyed me curiously/ warily. ❍ The children were eyeing the sweets hungrily. ❏ be all eyes [ IDM ] စူးစူးစိုက္စိုက္ၾကည့္သည္။ စိတ္ဝင္တစား ၿပံဳၾကည့္သည္။ The children were all eyes as we slowly unwrapped the parcel. ❏ clap/ lay/ set eyes on sb/ sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) ျမင္သည္။ ၾကည့္သည္။ I disliked the place the moment I clapped eyes on it. ❍ I hope I never set eyes on him again. ❏ my eye [ IDM ] ( infml ) (လက္မခံေၾကာင္း၊ မယံုေၾကာင္း ျပေသာစကား)။ အဓိပၸာယ္မရိွလိုက္တာ။ အလကား။ မဟုတ္က ဟုတ္က။ သြားစမ္းပါ။ She said she was only twenty-two — twenty-two my eye! ❏ eye-catching adj ထင္းခနဲျမင္သာေသာ။ မ်က္စိကို ဖမ္းစားေသာ။ an eye-catching dress/ poster. ❏ -eyed (forming compound adjs ) မ်က္လံုး …ႏွင့္။ a blue-eyed girl ❍ a one-eyed man. See also BLACK EYE, PRIVATE EYE ❏ an eye for an eye (and a tooth for a tooth) [ IDM ] သူ႕နည္းအတိုင္းထပ္တူ တံု႔ျပန္လက္စားေခ်မႈ။ The death penalty for murder works on the principle of an eye for an eye. ❏ eye-level adj မ်က္စိႏွင့္ တည့္တည့္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ မ်က္စိႏွင့္ တစ္တန္းတည္း။ The oven has an eye level grill. ❏ eye-liner (also liner ) n လိုင္နာေတာင့္။ ❏ the eye of the storm [ IDM ] မုန္တိုင္းဗဟိုခ်က္ ျဖစ္သည့္ ေလၿငိမ္ရပ္။ ❏ eye-opener n မ်က္စိဖြင့္ေပးလိုက္ေသာ၊ အျမင္က်ယ္ေစေသာ အေတြ႕အႀကံဳ။ My trip to India was quite an eye-opener. ❏ sb's eyes are bigger than their stomach [ IDM ] ( saying ) ဗိုက္အိုးထက္ ေလာဘမ်က္စိ ႀကီးသည္။ ❏ eye-shadow n [C, U] မ်က္ခြံဆိုးေဆးေတာင့္။ ❏ eye strain n [U] မ်က္စိေညာင္းညာျခင္း။ ❏ eye- tooth n ( pl eye-teeth ) စြယ္သြား။ Compare CANINE n ❏ eye sb up [ phrv ] ( infml ) စိတ္ဝင္တစားၾကည့္သည္။ I could see that she was eying me up as a potential customer. ❏ for sb's eye's only [ IDM ] တစ္ဦးတည္း သီးသန္႔ ဖတ္႐ႈ ရန္။ The top secret file was marked 'for the President's eyes only'. ❏ get one's eye in [ IDM ] ( Brit ) အေလ့အက်င့္ရ၍ ေဘာလံုး ဘယ္ေရာက္ေရာက္ ျမင္တတ္သြားသည္။ Once I'd got my eye in, I started to play better. ❏ give one's eye-teeth for sth [ IDM ] လိုခ်င္သည္။ ရိွခ်င္ သည္။ ပိုင္ခ်င္သည္။ I'd give my eye-teeth to own a car like that. ❏ have/ with an eye for/ on/ to the main chance [ IDM ] ( Brit ) (ေငြ)ရေပါက္ရလမ္း ျမင္တတ္သည္။ ❏ have one's eye on sb [ IDM ] မ်က္လံုးေဒါက္ေထာက္ ၾကည့္သည္။ I've got my eye on you, so you'd better behave. ❏ have one's eye on sth [ IDM ] မ်က္စိက်သည္။ I'm thinking of buying a car — there's a nice new model I've got my eye on. ❏ have eyes in the back of one's head [ IDM ] မ်က္စိရွင္ သည္။ ျမင္တတ္သည္။ How did you know I was behind you? You must have eyes in the back of your head. ❏ have/ with an eye to sth/ doing sth [ IDM ] အႀကံရိွ သည္။ ရည္ရြယ္သည္။ He always has an eye to business (ie looks for a chance of doing business). ❍ He kept the customer talking with an eye to selling him something else. ❏ have/ with half an/ one eye on sth [ IDM ] အာ႐ံုတျခား ေရာက္လ်က္။ စိတ္မပါ့တပါ။ I only had half an eye on the programme because Iwas reading the paper. ❏ in the eyes of sb/ in sb's eyes [ IDM ] …အျမင္၌။ In the eyes of the critics, he can do no wrong. ❏ in the eyes of the law, world, etc [ IDM ] …႐ႈေထာင့္မွ ၾကည့္လွ်င္။ In the eyes of the law she is guilty though few ordinary people would think so. ❏ keep an eye on sb/ sth [ IDM ] ေစာင့္ၾကည့္သည္။ ၾကည့္ထားသည္။ Could you keep an eye on my suitcase for a moment? ❏ keep an eye open/ out (for sb/ sth) [ IDM ] ( infml ) သတိထား၍ ၾကည့္သည္။ ဂ႐ုတစိုက္ ရွာၾကည့္သည္။ I've lost my ring — could you keep an eye out for it when you clean the house? ❏ keep one's eyes peeled/ skinned (for sb/ sth) [ IDM ] စူးစူးစိုက္စိုက္ ေသေသခ်ာခ်ာ ၾကည့္သည္။ အထူး သတိထားၾကည့္သည္။ She walked along slowly, keeping her eyes peeled/ skinned for any unusual flowers. ❏ look sb in the eye(s) face [ IDM ] ေစ့ေစ့ၾကည့္သည္။ မ်က္ႏွာတည့္တည့္ၾကည့္သည္။ မ်က္လံုးခ်င္း ဆိုင္ၾကည့္သည္။ Can you look me in the eye and tell me you're not lying? ❍ He couldn't bear to look her in the face. ❏ make eyes at sb [ IDM ] ၾကာၾကည့္ၾကည့္သည္။ ၾကာပစ္ သည္။ မ်က္စပစ္သည္။ He made eyes at her across the room. ❏ never/ not (be able to) take one's eyes off sb/ sth [ IDM ] မ်က္ေတာင္မခတ္ စိုက္ၾကည့္သည္။ မ်က္စိေအာက္က အေပ်ာက္မခံ ၾကည့္သည္။ She never took her eyes off him the whole evening. ❏ one in the eye (for sb/ sth) [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဆံုး႐ံႈးမႈ။ စိတ္ပ်က္လက္ပ်က္ျဖစ္စရာ။ လက္မိႈင္ခ်ျခင္း။ If she gets the job, it'll be one in the eye for Peter: he thought he was bound to get it. ❏ only have eyes for/ have eyes only for sb [ IDM ] တစ္မိုးေအာက္တစ္ေယာက္ ထင္သည္။ သူမွသူ တမ္းတမ္းစြဲ ႀကိဳက္သည္။ It's no use asking Kim to go out with you: she only has eyes for Mark. ❏ (not) see eye to eye with sb [ IDM ] သေဘာခ်င္း (မ)တိုက္ဆိုင္။ အျမင္(မ)တူ။ Jim and I have always seen eye to eye on politics ❍ She left because she didn't see eye to eye with her boss. ❏ see, look at, etc sth through sb's eyes [ IDM ] သူ႕ေနရာက ဝင္ၾကည့္သည္။ သူ႕႐ႈေထာင့္က ၾကည့္သည္။ ။ If you saw the situation through my eyes, you'd realize why I'm so angry. ❏ shut/ close one's eyes to sth [ IDM ] မျမင္က်ဳိးကြၽန္၊ မသိက်ဳိးကြၽန္ျပဳသည္။ မ်က္ႏွာလႊဲထားသည္။ The government shuts its eyes to poverty. ❍ She closed her eyes to her husband's infidelities. ❏ with one's eyes open [ IDM ] (ဘာျဖစ္လာႏိုင္ မယ္ဆိုတာ) သိၿပီးသား။ သိသိႀကီးႏွင့္။ သိလ်က္ႏွင့္။ I moved to this country with my eyes open, so I'm not complaining. ❏ with one's eyes shut/ closed [ IDM ] ၁။ မ်က္စိမိွတ္လ်က္ (လုပ္ႏိုင္သည္)။ (ငွက္ေပ်ာသီး အခြံႏႊာ စားရသလို) လြယ္လြယ္ ကေလး။ He's cooked that meal so often he can do it with his eyes closed. ၂။ ဘာသိဘာသာ။ နေမာ္နမဲ့။ If you go around with your eyes shut, you never learn anything about life.

Examples

1. Close your eyes and go to sleep.
2. He gazed into her eyes as she spoke.
3. The suspect is in his twenties
4. with blond hair and blue eyes.
5. These bacteria are invisible to our eyes.
6. He spoke to her with slight amusement in his eyes.
7. She smiled excitedly
8. her eyes gleaming.
9. [eye on] : I fixed my eye on the clock.
10. Just try to keep your eyes on the prize and you'll never fail.
11. Every country watches a US presidential contest with an eye on its own interests.