Smooth-talking

Definition

smooth /smu:Å/ adj ( -er , -est ) ၁။ ေခ်ာေမြ႕ေသာ။ ညက္ေညာ ေသာ။ မၾကမ္းေသာ။ a smooth skin/road/sheet of ice ❍ a smooth sea (ie calm, without waves) ❍ Marble is smooth to the touch (ie feels smooth when touched). Compare ROUGH adj ၂။ မႊတ္ေသာ။ smooth custard ❍ Mix the butter and sugar to a smooth paste. ၃။ (အရသာ)မႊတ္ေသာ။ a smooth whisky/cigar. ၄။ ေခ်ာေမာ ေသာ။ as smooth a journey as possible ❍ The new bill had a smooth passage through Parliament. ၅။ ညက္ေသာ။ ေခ်ာေမာေသာ။ a smooth ride in a car ❍ a smooth crossing by sea ❍ The aircraft made a smooth landing. ၆။ ေျပျပစ္ေသာ။ ညက္ေသာ။ smooth verse ❍ a smooth voice. ၇။ ( often derog ) ေျပျပစ္ေသာ။ ညက္ေသာ။ a smooth manner ❍ He's certainly a smooth operator/individual. v ~ sth (away , back , down , out , etc) အေခ်ာသတ္သည္။ ျပန္႔ေအာင္ျဖန္႔သည္။ smooth wood (with sandpaper) ❍ smooth (out) a sheet on a bed ❍ A new leader could help to smooth (out) the party's difficulties. ❏ (as) smooth as silk [ IDM ] ေခ်ာမွေခ်ာ။ ေျပမွေျပ။ Her skin is still as smooth as silk. ❏ smooth sth away [ PHRV ] အခက္အခဲျပႆနာ စသည္ ေလ်ာ့ပါးေျပေပ်ာက္ေစသည္။ smooth away wrinkles/tension ❍ Any differences between us were soon smoothed away. ❏ smoothie ( infml derog ) n ညက္ညက္ႏွင့္ ပတ္တတ္သူ (ေယာက်္ား)။ Don't trust him—he's a real smoothie! ❏ smoothly adv ေခ်ာေမြ႕၊ ေခ်ာေမာ၊ ညက္ေညာ၊ ေျပျပစ္စြာ။ The engine is running smoothly now. ❍ ‘I don't want to bother you,’ he said smoothly. ❍ Things are not going very smoothly (ie There have been a lot of problems, interruptions, etc). ❏ smoothness n [U]: ေခ်ာေမြ႕မႈ၊ ၿငိမ္သက္မႈ။ the smoothness of her skin ❍ the smoothness of the sea ❍ The smoothness with which negotiations had proceeded surprised him. ❏ smooth sth over [ PHRV ] ရင္ၾကားေစ့ေပးသည္။ An attempt was made to smooth over the disagreement between the two leaders. ❏ smooth sb's/the path/way [ IDM ] လြယ္ကူေခ်ာေမြ႕ ေစသည္။ talks aimed at smoothing the way to a treaty ❍ Speaking the language fluently certainly smoothed our path. ❏ smooth sb's ruffled feathers [ IDM ] ေခြၽးသိပ္သည္။ ေဖ်ာင္းဖ်သည္။ ❏ smooth-talking adj ( usu derog ) ခ်ဳိခ်ဳိခ်ဳိခ်ဳိႏွင့္ ဆြယ္ တရားေဟာေသာ။ smooth-talking salesmen.

Examples

1. A baby’s skin is as smooth as silk.
2. A smooth flight/voyage/ride
3. With a smooth swing
4. he hit the ball.
5. A smooth whisky
6. A smooth process/business
7. We are changing systems
8. but we expect a smooth transition.
9. Steven’s a bit too smooth for my liking.
10. A smooth operator (=someone you cannot trust)