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The penny drops

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Definition

penny /'peni/ n ( pl pennies /'peniz/ or Brit pence /pens/) ၁။ ( abbr p ) ၿဗိတိသွ်သံုး ေၾကးျပားပိုက္ဆံ။ ပဲနိ။ (တစ္ေပါင္ £ တြင္ပဲနိ p ၁၀၀ ရိွသည္။ ) He had a few pennies in his pocket. ❍ Potatoes are 20 pence a pound. ❍ These pencils cost 40p each. ၂။ ( abbr d ) ၁၉၇၁-ခုႏွစ္ အထိ ၿဗိတိန္တြင္ သံုးခဲ့ေသာ ေၾကးျပားပိုက္ဆံ။ (တစ္သွ်ီလင္တြင္ ၁၂ပဲနိ d ရိွသည္။ ) ၃။ ( US ) ဆင့္။ ❍ CENT ❏ be two/ten a penny [ IDM ] ၁။ အလြန္ေပါသည္ (ေဈးခ်ဳိသည္)။ Lobsters are two a penny where I come from. ၂။ အလြန္ေပါသည္ (ရလြယ္သည္)။ Good jobs aren't exactly ten a penny these days. ❏ in for a penny, in for a pound [ IDM ] ( Brit saying ) စမိမွေတာ့ ငုပ္မိသဲတိုင္လုပ္ရမည္။ ❏ penny arcade n ( US ) = amusement arcade ❏ the penny drops [ IDM ] ( infml esp Brit ) (မနည္းၾကာမွ) နားလည္သေဘာေပါက္သြားသည္။ I had to explain the riddle to her several times before the penny dropped. ❏ penny farthing n ( Brit ) ေရွ႕ဘီးႀကီးမား၍ ေနာက္ဘီး ေသးငယ္ေသာ ေရွးေခတ္စက္ဘီးတစ္မ်ဳိး။ ❏ a penny for your thoughts [ IDM ] ( catch- phrase ) ဘာေတြေတြးေနတာလဲ။ ❏ penny-pincher n ( infml derog ) တစ္ျပားကို ႏွစ္ျပားခြာသူ။ ကပ္ေစးႏွဲေကာ္တရာ။ penny-pinching adj, n [U] ❏ penny whistle n = TIN WHISTLE ❏ turn up like a bad penny [ IDM ] ( infml ) အလိုက္ ကမ္းဆိုးမသိ ေပၚလာျပန္ၿပီ။

Examples

  1. A local call only costs a few pence.
  2. He had saved up a jarful of old pennies.
  3. At secondhand shops you can buy brand name goods for pennies on the dollar.