Dictionary entry

Honest broker

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Definition

honest /'ɒnÇst/ adj ၁။ (က) မွန္ကန္ေသာ၊ ေျဖာင့္မတ္ေသာ၊ ႐ိုးသား ေသာ (သူ)။ an honest witness / businessman ❍ He was honest enough to admit that he knew nothing about the subject. (ခ) ပြင့္လင္းေသာ။ အ႐ိုးခံျဖစ္ေသာ။ အမွန္အတိုင္းျဖစ္ ေသာ။ give an honest opinion ❍ a refreshingly honest exchange of views ❍ To be (quite) honest I have never been so depressed by a book in all my life. (ဂ) ႐ိုးသား တည္ၾကည္ေသာ။ ႐ိုးပံု႐ိုးလက္ရိွေသာ။ မခိုမကပ္ေသာ။ an honest face ❍ do an honest day's work ❍ He looks honest enough, but can we trust him? Compare DISHONEST ၂။ ဓမၼိယလဒၶျဖစ္ေသာ (အခ၊ ေၾကးေငြ စသည္)။ make an honest living ❍ try to earn an honest penny. adv ( infml ) တကယ့္ကို။ အမွန္အားျဖင့္။ it wasn't me, honest! ❏ honest broker n ေရႊျပည္ေအးသမား။ ❏ honestly adv ၁။ ႐ိုး႐ိုးသားသား။ deal honestly with sb. ၂။ တကယ့္ကို။ အကယ္စင္စစ္။ I don't honestly know. ❍ Honestly, Helen, that's all the money I've got! ❍ I think I can honestly say I've never smoked in my life. ❍ Quite honestly, she isn't the sort of person we're looking for. ၃။ တကယ္ပါပဲ။ တကယ့္ကို။ Honestly! What a fuss he's making! ❏ honest-to-goodness adj ( approv ) ႐ိုး႐ိုး။ စစ္စစ္။ တကယ္တမ္း။ a bit of honest-to-goodness hard work ❍ There's nothing like an honest-to-goodness cup of tea! ❏ make an honest woman of sb [ IDM ] ( dated joc ) က်ဴးလြန္ၿပီးေနာက္မွ လက္ထပ္သည္။

Examples

  1. Most young people are decent and honest.
  2. An honest man
  3. [honest about] : I haven’t been completely honest about my past experience.
  4. [honest with] : Thank you for being so honest with me.
  5. I want you to give me an honest answer.
  6. An honest appraisal of his ability can only help him.
  7. [an honest mistake] : I gave her the wrong amount of money
  8. but it was an honest mistake.
  9. When is the last time Charlie did any honest work?
  10. [an honest living] : I’m just trying to earn an honest living (=earn money by working hard).