Nose to tail

Definition

nose /nǝƱz/ n [pl] ၁။ [C] ႏွာေခါင္း။ She wrinkled her nose in disgust (eg because of an unpleasant smell). ❍ Stop picking your nose (ie taking out pieces of dirt with the finger)! ❍ BODY ၂။ [C] ဦးပိုင္း။ He brought the plane's nose up and made a perfect landing. ❍ AIRCRAFT ၃။ [sing] (က) ~ for sth ( infml ) [ဥ] အနံ႔ခံေကာင္းျခင္း။ လိုက္ တတ္ျခင္း။ a reporter with a nose for scandal. (ခ) အနံ႔ခံ တတ္ျခင္း။ a dog with a good nose. ၄။ (ဝိုင္) ထူးျခား သင္းပ်ံ႕ေသာရနံ႔။ v ၁။ သတိျဖင့္ ျဖည္းျဖည္းခ်င္းေရွ႕တိုးသည္။ The plane nosed (down) cautiously through the dense cloud. ❍ The taxi nosed its way into the middle lane. ❍ ( fig ) The Democrats are nosing ahead in the opinion polls. ၂။ (တိရစၧာန္) အနံ႔ခံသည္။ a dog nosing into an old rucksack ❍ Timmy nosed out a rat. ❏ cut off one's nose to spite one's face [ IDM ] ( infml ) သူမ်ားမေကာင္းႀကံ ကိုယ္ေဘးဒဏ္ထိ။ ❏ get up sb's nose [ IDM ]( sl esp Brit ) ကသိကေအာက္ ျဖစ္ေစသည္။ Her remarks really got up my nose! ❏ have one's nose in sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) စိတ္ပါလက္ပါ စူးစူးစိုက္စိုက္…သည္။ Peter's always got his nose in a book. ❏ keep one's nose clean [ IDM ] ( infml ) အမွားမရိွေအာင္၊ ဥပေဒႏွင့္ မၿငိစြန္းေအာင္ ေနထိုင္သည္။ ေကာင္းေကာင္းေနသည္။ If you keep your nose clean, you'll do well in this firm. ❏ keep one's/ sb's nose to the grindstone [ IDM ] ( infml ) လက္ေၾကာတင္းသည္။ ❏ look down one's nose at sb/ sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) အထင္ေသးသည္။ They look down their noses at people less successful than themselves. ❏ nose about/ around/ round [ PHRV ] ( infml derog ) ဟိုၾကည့္သည္ၾကည့္လုပ္သည္။ ဟိုေမးသည္ေမး လုပ္သည္။ a reporter nosing around for news ❍ I caught him nosing round my garden. ❏ -nosed /-nǝƱzd/ (forming compound adjs ) … ေသာ ႏွာေခါင္း။ red-nosed ❍ long-nosed. ❏ nose sth out [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ေစ့ေစ့စပ္စပ္ ရွာသည္။ reporters nosing out all the details of the affair. ❏ nose to tail [ IDM ] ( Brit ) (ယာဥ္တစ္စီးႏွင့္တစ္စီး) ေခါင္းႏွင့္အၿမီး ဆက္လ်က္၊ ကပ္လ်က္။ cars crawling nose to tail for miles. ❏ on the nose [ IDM ] ( sl ) ေရေရလည္လည္။ ကြက္တိ။ You've hit it (ie described or understood it) on the nose! ❏ poke/ stick one's nose into sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) ကိုယ္ႏွင့္ မဆိုင္သည္ကို ဝင္စြက္သည္။ Don't go poking your nose into other people's business! ❏ put sb's nose out of joint [ IDM ] ( infml ) ႐ံႈ႕သြားေအာင္ မထီတရီလုပ္လႊတ္သည္။ ❏ turn one's nose up at sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) ႏွာေခါင္း႐ံႈ႕ သည္။ She turned her nose up at my small donation. ❏ (right) under sb's (very) nose [ IDM ] ( infml ) ၁။ မ်က္စိေအာက္မွာ။ I put the bill right under his nose so that he couldn't miss it. ၂။ မ်က္စိေအာက္မွာ ေျဗာင္က်က်။ They were having an affair under my very nose, and I didn't even realize! ❏ with one's nose in the air [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေခါင္းေမာ့ ရင္ေကာ့လ်က္။ အထင္ႀကီးတစ္ခြဲသားႏွင့္။ She walked straight past us with her nose in the air.

Examples

1. Her nose is bleeding.
2. Hold your nose (=press the two sides of it) and put your head under the water.
3. I’d like to punch him on the nose.
4. [someone’s nose is running] : Can you pass me a tissue – my nose is running.
5. [a runny nose] : A group of dirty children with runny noses
6. [blow your nose] : Excuse me
7. I just need to blow my nose.