Out of the corner of one's eye

Definition

corner /'kↄ:nǝ(r)/ n ၁။ (က) ေထာင့္။ ေထာင့္စြန္း။ ေထာင့္ခ်ဳိး။ A square has four corners; a cube has eight. ❍ standing at a street corner ❍ the shop on the corner ❍ the traffic-lights at the corner of Lansdowne Road ❍ When I turned the corner (of the street) he had disappeared. ❍ He hit his knee on the corner of the table. (ခ) (လမ္း)အေကြ႕၊ အခ်ဳိး။ The van took the corner too fast. (ဂ) ေထာင့္။ In the corner of the room stood a big old chair. ❍ The address is in the top right-hand corner of the letter. ၂။ ေခ်ာင္က်ေသာ အရပ္။ ေခ်ာင္။ She lives in a quiet corner of rural Yorkshire. ❍ He knew every corner of the old town. ❍ They flocked to the royal wedding from all corners of/ the four corners of the earth (ie from every country). ၃။ ( usu sing ) အက်ဥ္း အက်ပ္။ She'll need luck to get out of a tight corner like that. ❍ The interviewer had driven/ forced her into a corner. ၄။ ( usu sing ) ~ (in/ on sth) ( commerce ) ကုန္ကို လက္ဝါးႀကီးအုပ္ ဝယ္ေလွာင္ျခင္း။ a company with a corner in tin ore/ on the tin market. ၅။ (also corner-kick ) ေထာင့္ကန္ေဘာ။ The referee awarded a corner. ၆။ (လက္ေဝွ႔ပြဲ၊ နပန္းပြဲ) ႀကိဳးဝိုင္းေထာင့္။ And in the blue corner, Buster Smith. v (often passive) ၁။ ေခ်ာင္ပိတ္သည္။ ေခ်ာင္ပိတ္မိသည္။ The escaped prisoner was cornered at last. ❍ a cornered fox ❍ She felt cornered: there was no way out now. ၂။ ေျပာလို၍ အမိဖမ္းသည္။ As a financial writer, I am frequently cornered for advice. ၃။ ( Brit ) (ယာဥ္) ေကြ႕ သည္။ ခ်ဳိးသည္။ The car corners well (ie remains steady on curves). ၄။ ( commerce ) ကုန္ကို လက္ဝါးႀကီးအုပ္ ဝယ္ေလွာင္သည္။ corner the market in silver. ❏ (just) around/ round the corner [ IDM ] ဒီနားေလး တင္။ Her house is (just) round the corner. ❍ ( fig ) Good times are just around the corner (ie will soon happen). ❏ -cornered (in compound adjs ) ၁။ …ေထာင့္ရိွေသာ။ a three-cornered hat. ၂။ လူ၊ အုပ္စု…ပါဝင္ေသာ။ …ပြင့္ဆိုင္။ The election was a three-cornered fight between the Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats. ❏ corner shop n ( Brit ) လမ္းေထာင့္ ကုန္စံုဆိုင္ကေလး။ ❏ cut corners [ IDM ] [ဥ] ျဖတ္လမ္းလိုက္သည္။ We've had to cut a few corners to get his order ready in time. ❏ cut (off) a corner [ IDM ] ( esp Brit ) ေထာင့္ျဖတ္ ျဖတ္ ေလွ်ာက္သည္။ a path cutting off the corner ❍ The lawn is damaged here because people cut (off) the corner. ❏ out of the corner of one's eye [ IDM ] မ်က္ေစာင္းထိုး (ၾကည့္သည္)။ ေစြ(ၾကည့္သည္)။ I caught sight of her out of the corner of my eye. ❏ turn the corner [ IDM ] (က်န္းမာေရးစသည္ အဆိုးဆံုးအေျခ အေနမွ) လြန္ေျမာက္လာသည္။ ေတာင္ေက်ာ္သည္။

Examples

1. Watch the baby – that table has sharp corners.
2. [at/in the corner] : The date is displayed in the corner of the screen.
3. I had to park in the far corner of the car park.
4. [right-hand/left-hand corner] : That’s me
5. in the bottom right-hand corner of the picture.
6. [corner of] : In a dark corner of the room stood a tall man.
7. [in the corner] : She sat in the corner reading.
8. [on/at the corner] : I get my newspaper from the shop on the corner.
9. [turn the corner] : As she turned the corner into Bank Street
10. she saw us.
11. [street corner] : People begging on street corners
12. Slow down for the corner.
13. [corner of] : A tear trickled from the corner of her eye.
14. The corners of his mouth turned down disapprovingly.
15. Let’s find a quiet corner and talk about it.
16. [corner of] : Plant it in a sunny corner of your garden.
17. [the four corners of the earth/globe/world etc] : People came from the four corners of the earth to take part in these games.
18. The government is in a corner on the subject of taxes.
19. [tight corner] : We’ve got out of tighter corners than this!
20. [back/force someone into a corner] : They had me forced into a corner
21. and I had to admit the truth.
22. England’s first goal came from a corner.