Knock-kneed

Definition

knock /nɒk/ n ၁။ တံခါး စသည္တို႔ကို ေခါက္ျခင္း။ There was a knock at the door. ❍ If you’re not up by eight o’clock I’ll give you a knock (ie to wake you). Compare TAP 2 n ၂။ ျပင္းထန္စြာ ထိခိုက္မိ၍ရေသာဒဏ္ရာ၊ ဒဏ္ခ်က္။ She fell off her bike and got a nasty knock on her leg. ၃။ (အင္ဂ်င္မွ) ပစၥတင္ေခါက္သံ၊ မီးသံ။ v ၁။ ထုသည္။ ေခါက္သည္။ knock three times (at the door/on the window). ❍ BANG 1 ၂။ ~ sth ( against/on sth ) တိုက္မိသည္။ Mind you don't knock your head (on this low beam). ❍ His hand knocked against the glass. ၃။ ထုသည္။ ထိုးသည္။ ပုတ္သည္။ The blow knocked me flat/senseless. ❍ He knocked my drink flying. ၄။ ေဖာက္သည္။ ျဖဳတ္သည္။ knock a hole in the wall ❍ knock the window out. ၅။ (အင္ဂ်င္စက္) မီးသံထြက္သည္၊ ပစၥတင္ေခါက္သံ ထြက္သည္။ ၆။ (ေၾကာက္ဒူး) တုန္သည္။ Her knees were knocking (together) in terror. ၇။ ( infml ) ေဝဖန္ထိုးႏွက္သည္။ The newspapers are always knocking the England team. ❏ knock about/around (…) [ PHRV ] ၁။ ( infml ) ေျခဦးတည့္ရာ သြားလာေနထိုင္သည္။ spend a few years knocking about (in)Europe. ၂။ တစ္ေနရာရာမွာ ရိွမွာပဲ။ My dictionary is knocking around here somewhere. ❏ knock about/around with sb/together [ PHRV ] ( infml ) တတြဲတြဲ သြားလာေနထိုင္ ၾကသည္။ ❏ knock sb/sth about/around [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ႐ိုက္ႏွက္ ထုေထာင္းသည္။ be badly knocked about by the police ❍ Her husband knocks her around. ❏ knock sb back [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ေငြကုန္ေၾကးက် မ်ားေစသည္။ Buying that house must have knocked them back a bit. ❏ knock sth back [ PHRV ] ( infml ) အားရပါးရ ေမာ့သည္။ ေမာ့ခ်သည္။ knock back a couple of beers. ❏ knock sb's block/head off [ IDM ] ( sl ) ဇက္ျပဳတ္ သြားမယ္။ Call me that again and I'll knock your block off⚠ ❏ knock the bottom out of sth [ IDM ] ၿဖိဳဖ်က္လိုက္ သည္။ ၿဖိဳခြင္းလိုက္သည္။ (ေဈးႏႈန္း) ထိုးက်သြားေစသည္။ knock the bottom out of the coffee market (ie cause the price of coffee to fall sharply). ❏ knock-down adj ေလွ်ာ့ (ေဈး)။ ❏ knock sb down [ PHRV ] တိုက္ခ်သည္။ လွဲလိုက္သည္။ She was knocked down by a bus. ❍ He knocked his opponent down three times in the first round. ❏ knock sth down [ PHRV ] နံရံမ်ားကို ၿဖိဳ၍ အိမ္ကို ဖ်က္သည္။ These old houses are going to be knocked down. ❏ knock sth down(to sb) [ PHRV ] ( infml ) (ေလလံဆြဲသူကို) ေရာင္းခ်လိုက္သည္။ The vase was knocked down (to an American dealer) for ʒ5000. ❏ knock sth/sb down [ PHRV ] ေဈးဆစ္သည္။ I managed to knock his price/him down (from ʒ500 to ʒ450). ❏ knock sth in ; knock sth into sth [ PHRV ] ႐ိုက္သြင္းသည္။ knock in a few nails. ❏ knock sb/sth into a cocked hat [ IDM ] အလဲထိုး လိုက္သည္။ A professional photographer could knock my pathetic efforts into a cocked hat. ❏ knock it off [ IDM ] ( sl ) (esp imperative) တိတ္စမ္း။ ခုရပ္လိုက္စမ္း။ Knock it off, kids — I’m trying to work⚠ ❏ knock-kneed adj ေျခခြင္ေသာ။ ❏ knock off (sth) [ PHRV ] ( infml ) (အလုပ္) ဆင္းသည္။ What time do you knock off (work)? ❏ knock sb off [ PHRV ] ( sl ) ေျဖာင္သည္။ ❏ knock sb off their pedestal/perch [ IDM ] ( infml ) ျဖဳတ္ခ်သည္။ knock the market leaders off their pedestal. ❏ knock sth off [ PHRV ] ၁။ ေလွ်ာ့ေပးသည္။ ေဈးက် သြားေစသည္။ I'll knock ʒ5 off the jug because it’s chipped. ❍ The news knocked 13% off IBM's shares today. ၂။ ( infml ) တက္သုတ္ႏွင္ကာ အၿပီးသတ္သည္။ knock off three novels a year. ၃။ ( sl ) ေျဖာင္သည္။ အလစ္ သုတ္သည္။ knock off some watches from a shop ❍ knock off a bank. ❏ knock sth off (sth) [ PHRV ] တိုက္ခ်သည္။ knock sb's glass off the table. ❏ knock-on adj အက်ဳိးဆက္။ create knock-on employment ❍ This industrial dispute will have serious knock-on effects. ❏ knock sth on the head [ IDM ] ကဖ်က္ယဖ်က္ လုပ္သည္။ The recession knocked on the head any idea of expanding the company. ❏ knock on wood [ IDM ] ̃ TOUCH WOOD ❏ knock sb out [ PHRV ] ၁။ (လက္ေဝွ႔ပြဲတြင္) အလဲထိုးသည္။ See also KNOCKOUT ၂ ၂။ ေနာက္ေကာက္က်သည္။ Don't drink too much of this – it'll knock you out⚠ ❍ The blow knocked her out. ၃။ ( infml ) အျပတ္ခိုက္သြားေစသည္။ The movie just knocked me out – it's the best I've ever seen. ❏ knock sb/oneself out [ PHRV ] ေျခပစ္လက္ပစ္ ျဖစ္ေစ သည္။ Christmas shopping just knocks me out. ❏ knock sb out (of sth) [ PHRV ] (ဗန္း) ေနာက္ေကာက္ ခ်လိုက္သည္။ France knocked Belgium out (of the World Cup). ❏ knock sth out [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ထုတ္လိုက္သည္။ ျပဳစုသည္။ He knocks out five books a year. ❏ knock sb/sth over [ PHRV ] တိုက္ခ်သည္။ You've knocked over my drink⚠ ❏ knock sb sideways [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေျခမကိုင္မိ လက္ မကိုင္မိ ျဖစ္သြားေစသည္။ The news knocked him completely sideways. ❏ knock spots off sb/sth [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) အျပတ္ အသတ္ အႏိုင္ယူလိုက္သည္။ She knocks spots off all the other candidates. ❏ knock the stuffing out of sb [ IDM ] ( infml ) အ႐ုပ္ႀကိဳးျပတ္ျဖစ္ေစသည္။ Failing the exam has knocked all the stuffing out of him. ❏ knock sth together [ PHRV ] ( esp Brit ) ျဖစ္ကတတ္ဆန္းလုပ္သည္။ knock bookshelves together from old planks ❍ knock a few scenes together to make a play. ❏ knock up [ PHRV ] (တင္းနစ္ပြဲစသည္) ေသြးပူ ေလ့က်င့္ သည္။ ❏ knock-up n [sing] ေသြးပူေလ့က်င့္မႈ။ have a quick knock-up. ❏ knock sb up [ PHRV ] ၁။ ( Brit infml ) တံခါးေခါက္၍ ႏိႈးသည္။ She knocked me up at 5.30. ၂။ (⚠ sl esp US ) အမ်ဳိးသမီးတစ္ဦးကို ကိုယ္ဝန္ရေစသည္။ ❏ knock sth up [ PHRV ] ကမန္းကတန္း စီစဥ္သည္။ She knocked up a fantastic meal in ten minutes. ❏ knock your/their heads together [ IDM ] ( infml ) ရန္ပြဲကို ၿငိမ္းေစရန္ ေခါင္းခ်င္းဆိုင္ တိုက္ေပးသည္။ I often feel that politicians should have their heads knocked together. ❏ take a knock [ IDM ] ( infml ) (ေဈးႏႈန္း) ခ်ခံရသည္။ The dollar took a further knock today. ❏ you could have knocked me down with a feather [ IDM ] ( infml ) (အံ့အားသင့္ေသာအခါ သံုးေသာစကား)။

Examples

1. Mike had knocked his leg against a table.
2. He knocked a couple of nails into the door.
3. [knock someone to/off/over/down] : They knocked him to the ground.
4. The force was powerful enough to knock him off balance.
5. [knock someone unconscious] : The driver had been knocked unconscious by the impact.
6. They knocked a hole for the doorway.
7. They walked up to the door and knocked loudly.
8. [knock on/at] : I knocked on his door but got no reply.
9. The newspapers spend too much time knocking government policy.