The big time

Definition

big /bÇg/ adj ( -gger , -ggest ) ၁။ ႀကီးေသာ။ ႀကီးက်ယ္ေသာ။ …ႀကီး။ …မ။ a big garden/man/majority/defeat/explosion/argument ❍ the big toe (ie the largest). ❍ a big ‘g’ (ie a capital G) ❍ ( infml ) big money (ie a lot of money) ❍ the big screen (ie the cinema) ❍ The bigger (ie worse) the crime, the longer the jail sentence. ❍ He's the biggest liar (ie He tells more lies than anyone else) I know. ❍ She's a big eater/spender (ie She eats/spends a lot). ❍ He uses a lot of big (ie long or unusual) words. Compare small ၂။ အႀကီး။ ႀကီးၿပီ (ျဖစ္ေသာ)။ my big sister (ie my older sister) ❍ Don't cry—you're a big boy now! ၃။ အေရးပါေသာ။ the big match ❍ a big decision ❍ the biggest moment of my life. ၄။ ( infml ) မဟာ။ ႀကီးႀကီးက်ယ္က်ယ္။ have big ideas/plans. ၅။ ( infml esp US ) ေရပန္းစားေသာ။ Video games are big this year. ❍ A lot of British bands are big in Japan. ၆။ ~ on sth ( infml esp US ) အားေပး[ေသာ]။ The firm is big on staff training programmes. ၇။ ~ of sb ( esp ironic ) ေစတနာ (မ) ေကာင္းလိုက္ပံုမ်ား။ It's very big of you to help, now that I've almost finished! adv ( sl ) ၁။ ႀကီးႀကီးက်ယ္က်ယ္။ We need to think big. ❍ He likes to talk big (ie to boast). ၂။ ေအာင္ေအာင္ျမင္ျမင္။ a band which comes/goes over big with pop fans worldwide. bigness n [U] ❏ be/get too big for one's boots [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဘဝင္ကိုင္သည္။ ေသြးနားထင္ေရာက္သည္။ ❏ the Big Apple n [sing] ( US sl ) နယူးေယာက္ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္။ I've worked in the Big Apple for 20 years. ❏ big bang n (usu sing ) မဟာစၾကဝဠာႀကီး စတင္ ျဖစ္ေပၚ လာေစသည့္ ေပါက္ကြဲမႈႀကီး။ the big bang theory. ❏ Big Brother n ျပည္သူ႕အက်ဳိးလိုေယာင္ျဖင့္ ျပည္သူကို ခ်ဳပ္ကိုင္ျခယ္လွယ္သည့္ ေခါင္းေဆာင္၊ အစိုးရ။ ❏ big business n [U] (ေငြေၾကးပမာဏ ႀကီးမားလွသည့္) စီးပြားေရးလုပ္ငန္းႀကီး။ ❏ a big cheese [ IDM ] ( sl derog ) အလြန္အေရးပါေသာ 'ပုတ္ကိုယ္ႀကီး'။ အေကာင္။ ❏ big deal! [ IDM ] ( infml ironic ) ဒါေလးမ်ား။ We're getting a wage increase of £40 a year, before tax. Big deal! ❏ the Big Dipper n ( US ) = PLOUGH ၂ ❏ big dipper n ( Brit ) ထိုးဆင္းထိုးတက္ ေကြ႕ပတ္သြားသည့္ အေပ်ာ္စီးရထား။ သည္းထိတ္ရင္ဖိုရထား။ See also ROLLER-COASTER ❏ big end n (အင္ဂ်င္) ေရာ့တံတြင္ က႐ိုင္းရွပ္ႏွင့္ အံကိုက္ စြပ္တပ္ႏိုင္သည့္ တစ္ဖက္စြန္း။ ❏ a big fish (in a little pond) [ IDM ] ေနရာကြက္ကြက္ ကေလးမွာ ဩဇာရိွသူ။ ❏ big game n [U] အမဲ။ ေတာေကာင္ႀကီး။ ❏ big-head n ( infml ) ဘဝင္ျမင့္သူ။ ဘဝင္။ big-headed adj ❏ big-hearted adj သေဘာထားႀကီးေသာ။ ၾကင္နာတတ္ေသာ။ ❏ a big noise/shot/name [ IDM ] ( infml ) အေရးပါ ေသာပုဂၢိဳလ္။ ႀကီးႀကီးမာစတာ။ ❏ the big stick [ IDM ] စစ္ေရးအရအင္အားျပ ၿခိမ္းေျခာက္မႈ။ စြယ္ေယာင္ျပမႈ။ ❏ the big three, four, etc [ IDM ] ႀကီး ၃ ႀကီး၊ ႀကီး ၄ ႀကီး စသည္။ a meeting of the big five. ❏ the big time [ IDM ] ( infml ) (အႏုပညာသည္) စန္းအထဆံုး အခ်ိန္။ ❏ big top n (ဆပ္ကပ္တြင္) ပင္မ႐ံု။ ❏ big wheel n = FERRIS WHEEL ❏ give sb/get a big hand [ IDM ] ေျဖာင္းေျဖာင္းညံေအာင္ ဩဘာေပးသည္။ လက္ခုပ္ဩဘာသံေပးျခင္း ခံရသည္။ Let's all give her a big hand. ❏ have a big mouth [ IDM ] ေလလံုးထြားသည္။ ႏႈတ္ဖြာသည္။

Examples

1. A beautiful woman with big eyes
2. He kept all his secret papers in a big box.
3. [great big] : At the end of the lane was a great big house.
4. A big man stood in the doorway.
5. The company faces big problems.
6. The concerts have been a big success.
7. They were big fans of the Beatles.
8. A type of music that is big in America
9. We have another big game next week.
10. I had never been involved in making the big decisions before.
11. Big changes are likely to be made.
12. The place was full of big businessmen.
13. [big in] : Her mother is big in daytime television.
14. [the big two/three/four etc] : Other stores struggle to compete with the big four retailers.
15. Big Tobacco (=the major cigarette companies)
16. An important victory for Big Oil
17. Come on
18. you’re a big girl now (=old enough to behave like an adult).
19. This is my big brother
20. Jake.