In the lap of the gods

Definition

lap 1 /læp / n (က) ေပါင္ခြင္။ ေပါင္။ Come and sit on my lap. ❍ She had fallen asleep with the book open in her lap. (ခ) ထဘီ၊ စကတ္စသည္ ေပါင္ခြင္ပိုင္း။ She gathered the fallen apples and carried them in her lap. ❏ drop/dump sth in sb's lap [ IDM ] ( infml ) ထိုးေပးသည္။ လႊဲခ်သည္။ Don't try and dump the problem in my lap. ❏ drop/fall in/into sb's lap [ IDM ] မရြယ္ဘဲ ေစာ္ကဲမင္း ျဖစ္သည္။ The job just fell into my lap. They phoned me up one day and offered it to me. ❏ in the lap of the gods [ IDM ] ကံစီမံရာအတိုင္းပဲ။ ❏ in the lap of luxury [ IDM ] ဇိမ္က်က်။ အၿမိဳင့္သား။ ❏ lap-dog n ၁။ ယုယုယယ ေမြးထားေသာ ေခြးကေလး။ ၂။ ( derog ) ခိုင္းဖတ္။ the government and its media lap-dogs. lap 2 /læp / v ၁။ ေျပးလမ္းတစ္ပတ္။ တာတစ္ပတ္။ He crashed on the tenth lap. ❍ hold the lap record ❍ do a lap of honour (ie make a ceremonial circuit of a sports field, track, etc after winning a contest). ေအာင္ပြဲခံၿပီးေနာက္ ေျပးလမ္းတစ္ေက်ာ့ ပတ္သည္။ ၂။ ခရီးတစ္ေထာက္။ on the last lap of their round-the-world trip ❍ The next lap takes us into the mountains. v ( -pp- ) တာတစ္ပတ္ႏွစ္ပတ္ ေက်ာ္ျဖတ္ထားခဲ့သည္။ She's lapped three of the other runners. lap 3 /læp / v ( -pp- ) ၁။ ~ sth (up) လ်က္သည္။ a dog noisily lapping (up) water. ၂။ တဖ်ပ္ဖ်ပ္ ႐ိုက္ခတ္သည္။ waves lapping on a beach / against the side of a boat ❍ a gentle lapping sound ❍ the lapping of the waves. ❏ lap sth up [ PHRV ] ( infml ) အားပါးတရ လက္ခံသည္၊ ခံယူသည္။ lap up sunshine / knowledge / attention ❍ The movie got terrible reviews but the public is lapping it up.

Examples

1. [on/in someone’s lap] : The cat settled on Christine’s lap.
2. He sat with his hands clasped in his lap.
3. The race is twelve laps of a seven-mile circuit.
4. They caught a taxi for the next lap of their journey.