Have feet of clay

Definition

foot 1 /fƱt / n ( pl feet / fi:t/) ၁။ [C] ေျခေထာက္ (ေျခမ်က္စိ ေအာက္ပိုင္း)။ He got/rose to his feet (ie stood up). ❍ I've been on my feet (ie standing or walking around) all day. ❍ walking round the house in bare feet (ie not wearing shoes or socks) ❍ a foot switch/ pump (ie operated by one's foot, not one's hand). ၂။ [ C usu sing ] ေျခအိတ္။ ေျခအိတ္ရွည္။ ၃။ [C] ( pl feet or, in measurements and attributively, foot ) ( abbr ft) ၁၂ လက္မအရွည္။ တစ္ေပ။ a 6-foot high wall ❍ We're flying at 35000 feet. ❍ ‘How tall are you?’ ‘Five foot nine’ (ie five feet and nine inches). ၄။ [sing] the ~ of sth (က) အေျခ။ အရင္း။ ေျခရင္း။ ေအာက္ေျခ။ at the foot of the stairs / a ladder ❍ at the foot of the page ❍ They camped at the foot of the cliff/mountain. (ခ) ေျခရင္း။ There were clean towels at the foot of each bed. ၅။ [U] ( arch ) ေျခ။ light/swift/fleet of foot. ၆။ [C] ပဒ။ For men / may come / and men/may go. See also ATHLETE'S FOOT, BAREFOOT, CLUB-FOOT ❏ fall/land on one's feet [ IDM ] ေၾကာင္က် က်သည္။ ❏ foot-and-mouth disease n [U] လွ်ာနာ ခြာနာ။ ❏ -footer /'fƱtǝ(r) / (forming compounds) … ေပ (အရွည္၊ အျမင့္စသည္)။ a six-footer (ie a person who is six feet tall or a thing that is six feet wide or long). ❏ get/have a foot in the door [ IDM ] ေျခကုပ္ရသည္။ He always wanted to go into publishing but it took him two years to get a foot in the door. ❏ have feet of clay [ IDM ] ေျခာက္ျပစ္ကင္းမဟုတ္။ ❏ have both feet on the ground ; have one's feet on the ground [ IDM ] ေအာက္ေျခမလြတ္။ ❏ have a foot in both camps [ IDM ] ေလွနံ ႏွစ္ဖက္ နင္းသည္။ ❏ have one foot in the grave [ IDM ] ( infml ) သခ်ဳႋင္းသို႔ မ်က္ေစာင္းထိုးသည္။ သခ်ဳႋင္းသို႔ ေျခတစ္ဖက္ လွမ္းသည္။ ❏ my foot! [ IDM ] ( infml ) (တစ္ဦးဦး၏အေျပာကို လံုးဝ လက္မခံႏိုင္ေၾကာင္း ေဖာ္ျပေသာစကား)။ အလကား။ မျဖစ္ႏိုင္တာ။ ‘It's too difficult. ’ ‘Difficult my foot! Try harder!’ ❏ on one's feet [ IDM ] ထူထူေထာင္ေထာင္ ျဖစ္လာသည္။ After his wife's death it took him two years to get back on his feet. ❍ policies that will put the country on its feet again. ❏ on foot [ IDM ] ေျခက်င္၊ ကုန္းေၾကာင္း(ေလွ်ာက္သည္)။ They set off on foot. ❏ put one's feet up [ IDM ] စိတ္လြတ္ ကိုယ္လြတ္နားသည္။ ❏ put one's foot down [ IDM ] ၁။ ျပတ္သားသည္။ အျပတ္ေျပာသည္။ You've got to put your foot down and make him stop seeing her. ၂။ လီဗာဖိနင္းသည္။ She put her foot down and roared past them. ❏ put one's foot in it [ IDM ] အိုးနင္းခြက္နင္း လုပ္မိသည္။ ❏ put a foot wrong [ IDM ] ( Brit ) (esp in negative sentences) အမွားျပဳလုပ္မိသည္။ In all his years in the job I've never known him (to) put a foot wrong. ❏ rush/run sb (clean) off their feet [ IDM ] ေျခကုန္ လက္ပန္းက်သည္။ Before Christmas the shop assistants are rushed off their feet. ❏ set foot in/on sth [ IDM ] ေျခခ်သည္။ the first man to set foot on the moon ❍ Don't ever set foot in this house again! ဒီအိမ္ရိပ္ နင္းမည္မႀကံနဲ႔။ ❏ set sb/sth on their/its feet [ IDM ] ျပန္ထူေထာင္ ေပး သည္။ set a business on its feet. ❏ stand on one's own (two) feet [ IDM ] ကိုယ့္ေျခေထာက္ ေပၚ ကိုယ္ရပ္တည္ႏိုင္သည္။ Now that you're growing up you must learn to stand on your own two feet. ❏ under one's feet [ IDM ] ေျခ႐ႈပ္သည္။ The children are under my feet all day. foot 2 /fƱt / v ❏ foot the bill (for sth) [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဒကာခံသည္။ ကုန္က်စရိတ္ခံသည္။ Who's going to foot the bill for all the repairs? ❏ -footed (forming compound adjs ) ေျခ… (ရိွေသာ)။ bare-footed ❍ flat-footed ❍ four-footed.

Examples

1. Mary slid her feet into her sandals.
2. [wipe your feet] : He wiped his feet on the mat.
3. [stamp your feet] : They stamped their feet to keep warm (=brought them down hard on the ground).
4. [shuffle your feet] : He looked at the teacher and shuffled his feet nervously.
5. [beneath/under your feet] : The deck was slippery beneath her feet.
6. A hole in the foot of her tights
7. A foot brake/pump
8. The house is 275 feet above sea level.
9. The dining room measures 30 foot by 10.
10. We had over two feet of snow last night.
11. [...feet long/high/wide/tall] : The boat is 25 feet long.
12. [foot of] : She paused at the foot of the stairs.
13. [foot of a mountain/hill/slope/cliff] : We camped that night at the foot of the mountain.
14. There was an error message at the foot of the page.
15. [foot of] : Henry stood at the foot of the bed.
16. A young officer at the foot of the table objected to the plan.
17. She put her foot in her mouth.
18. The car was broken down so we took the foot falcon home.