Tread water

Definition

tread /tred/ v ( pt trod /trɒd/ ; pp trodden /'trɒdn/ or trod ) ၁။ ~ (on, etc sth/ sb) နင္းသည္။ ေလွ်ာက္သည္။ လွမ္းသည္။ You're treading on my toe. ❍ Mind you don't tread in that puddle. ❍ ( fig ) It is a sensitive issue so we must tread (ie speak, proceed) carefully. ❍ ( rhet ) The expedition took us to places where no one had trod before. ၂။ ~ sth (in/ down/ out) နင္းသည္။ tread grapes (ie to make wine). ❍ Tread the earth down around the roots after planting. ❍ Don't tread ash into the carpet! ၃။ (ဖုန္ေနေအာင္) သြားထားသည္။ a well- trodden path along the cliff edge. n ၁။ [sing] လမ္းေလွ်ာက္ဟန္။ ေျခသံ။ walk with a heavy tread. ၂။ [C] ေလွကားထစ္။ ေလွကားဆန္။ ၃။ [C,U] တာယာပန္း။ Driving with worn treads can be dangerous. ၄။ [C,U] ဖိနပ္ခံုတြင္ ေဖာ္ထားသည့္ ပန္း။ ❏ tread on sb's heels [ IDM ] ကပ္လိုက္သည္။ ထက္ၾကပ္ လိုက္သည္။ ဖဝါးေျခထပ္လိုက္သည္။ ❏ tread on sb; ( US ) step on sb [ PHRV ]( infml ) ခုတံုးလုပ္ သည္။ ဘယ္သူေသေသ ငေတမာၿပီးေရာ လုပ္သည္။ You can't just go around treading on people. ❏ tread on sb's toes [ IDM ]( infml ) ထိကပါးရိကပါးလုပ္ သည္။ ပုတ္ခတ္သည္။ I don't want to tread on anybody's toes so I'll keep quiet. ❏ tread water [ IDM ] (ေရ၌) ကိုယ္ေဖာ့သည္။

Examples

1. Tutilo kept his eyes on the cobbles
2. treading carefully.
3. [tread on] : As she stumbled in the dark
4. she trod on something hard.
5. Don’t tread mud into the carpet.