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In the nick of time

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Definition

nick 1 /nÇk/ n အနည္းငယ္ျဖတ္ညႇပ္ျခင္း။ Make a nick in the cloth with the scissors. v ဓားထိသည္။ ရွသြားသည္။ nick one's chin while shaving. ❏ in good, bad, etc nick [ IDM ]( Brit infml ) အေျခအေန၊ က်န္းမာေရး (ေကာင္းသည္၊ မေကာင္း)။ She's in pretty good nick for a 70-year-old. ❍ The car's in poor nick. ❏ in the nick of time [ IDM ] အခ်ိန္မီ႐ံုကေလးမွ၊ ေတ့ၿပီးမွ။ We arrived in the nick of time. nick 2 /nÇk/ n the nick [sing] ( Brit sl ) အက်ဥ္းေထာင္ (သို႔) အခ်ဳပ္။ She spent a year in the nick. ❍ The burglar was taken to the local nick. v ( Brit infml ) ၁။ ~ sb (for sth) ဖမ္းဆီးသည္။ ကုပ္သြားသည္။ He was nicked for stealing. ၂။ ~ sth (from sb/ sth) လစ္သည္။ ဗုန္းသည္။ Who's nicked my pen?

Examples

  1. His wallet got nicked when he was on holiday.
  2. He nicked his finger opening a tin.