Keep a straight face

Definition

straight /streÇt/ adj ၁။ ေျဖာင့္ေသာ။ မတ္ေသာ။ တည့္ေသာ။ စင္း ေသာ။ a straight line ❍ straight hair (ie without curls) ❍ straight-backed chairs ❍ The road continues straight as an arrow for two miles. ❍ HAIR ၂။ တည့္[ေသာ]။ Is my tie straight? ❍ His hat isn't on straight. ၃။ သပ္ရပ္[ေသာ]။ ေသသပ္[ေသာ]။ ေနရာတက်ျဖစ္ [ေသာ]။ It took hours to get the house straight. ၄။ ပြင့္လင္းေသာ။ ႐ိုးသားေသာ။ ေျဖာင့္မတ္ ေသာ။ မကြယ္မေထာင့္ေသာ။ give a straight answer to a straight question ❍ I don't think you're being straight with me. ❍ It's time for some straight talking. ❍ You can trust Peter —he's (as) straight as a die (ie completely honest). ၅။ ယတိျပတ္။ ႐ိုး႐ိုးတန္းတန္း(ျဖစ္ေသာ)။ It was a straight choice between taking the job and staying out of work. ၆။ ႐ိုး႐ိုး။ သမား႐ိုးက်။ တည္ၾကည္ ေလးနက္ေသာ။ a straight play/actor. ၇။ ေတာက္ေလွ်ာက္။ ဆက္တိုက္။ She's had ten straight wins and is in excellent form. ၈။ စစ္စစ္။ ေရမေရာဘဲ။ I like my vodka straight. ၉။ ( infml ) (က) ႐ိုးစင္းေသာ။ သမား႐ိုးက် ျဖစ္ေသာ။ (ခ) ေဖာက္ေဖာက္ျပန္ျပန္ မဟုတ္ေသာ။ straight men. adv ၁။ ေျဖာင့္ေျဖာင့္။ မတ္မတ္။ တည့္တည့္။ sit up straight (ie without bending one's back) ❍ Keep straight on for two miles. ❍ Look straight ahead. ❍ The smoke rose straight up. ❍ He was too drunk to walk straight. ❍ I can't shoot straight (ie accurately at the target) ၂။ တန္းတန္းမတ္မတ္။ ေတာက္ေလွ်ာက္။ Come straight home/back. ❍ He went straight to Lagos, without stopping in Nairobi. ❍ She went straight from school to college. ❍ I'll come straight to the point—your work isn't good enough. ၃။ ရွင္းရွင္း။ တည့္တည့္။ I told him straight that I didn't like him. ၄။ တစ္ဆက္တည္း။ ေတာက္ေလွ်ာက္။ work for 16 hours straight. n ၁။ ေျပးလမ္းအေျဖာင့္ပိုင္း။ ေျပးလမ္းေျဖာင့္။ The two runners were level coming into the final straight. See also THE HOME STRAIGHT ၂။ ( infml ) ႐ိုး႐ိုးတန္းတန္း။ ကလီကမာမဟုတ္။ gays and straights. ❏ go straight [ IDM ] ႐ိုး႐ိုးသားသားေနသည္။ come out of prison and go straight. ❏ keep a straight face [ IDM ] ႐ႈတည္တည္ျဖစ္ေသာ။ ဣေႁႏၵဆည္ေသာ။ He has such a strange voice that it's difficult to keep a straight face when he's talking. ❏ play straight (with sb) [ IDM ] ႐ိုးသားသည္။ I don't think you're playing straight with me. ❏ put/set sb straight (about/on sth) [ IDM ] အျမင္မွန္ ရေအာင္၊ သေဘာေပါက္သြားေအာင္ အျပတ္ေျပာသည္။ He seemed to think he could arrive for work whenever he liked, but I soon put him straight (about that). ❏ put sth straight [ IDM ] ( esp Brit ) သပ္ရပ္ေအာင္ ရွင္း သည္။ Please put your desk straight before you leave the office. ❏ the straight and narrow [ IDM ] ( infml ) မွန္မွန္ကန္ကန္။ ႐ိုး႐ိုးသားသား။ တရားသျဖင့္။ He finds it difficult to stay on/keep to the straight and narrow for long. ❏ straight from the shoulder [ IDM ] ဘြင္းဘြင္း၊ မကြယ္ မေထာင့္ (ေျပာသည္)။ She gave it to me straight from the shoulder. ❏ straight out [ IDM ] တန္းတန္းမတ္မတ္။ မဆိုင္းမတြ။ တည့္တည့္။ I told him straight out that I thought he was lying. ❍ I didn't ask him to tell me—he just came straight out with it. ❏ straight up [ IDM ] ( Brit sl ) အဟုတ္ေျပာတာပါ။ အဟုတ္ ပါ။ အမွန္ပါ။ ‘I don't believe you got it for nothing. ’ ‘ Yes, I did—straight up!’

Examples

1. Continue straight on for about 20 yards then turn left.
2. Sue always looks you straight in the eye when she’s talking to you.
3. He stared straight ahead.
4. The car was coming straight at me.
5. [dead straight] : It flew dead straight through the air.
6. We decided to go straight home.
7. We put the children straight to bed.
8. I decided I’d leave straight after breakfast.
9. [come straight to the point] : I’ll come straight to the point (=say immediately what I want to say).
10. Sit up straight.
11. [tell someone straight (out)] : I’m going to tell you straight.
12. We drove for five hours straight.