Dictionary entry
Underdog
Pronunciation: /ˈʌndədɒɡ/
Pronunciation
/ˈʌndədɒɡ/
Myanmar Meaning
ဖိနှိပ်ခံနေရသူ။ တိုက်ပွဲ၊ ရန်ပွဲတွင် ရှုံးနိမ့်သူ။
Definition
underdog / 'ʌndǝdɒg; US -dↄ:g / n အေရးနိမ့္ဟန္ရိွေသာ၊ ေအာက္လက္ကေန (တက္ခြပ္ရေသာ)လူ၊ အသင္း၊ အဖြဲ႕စသည္။ အႏိွမ္ခံ၊ အဖိႏိွပ္ခံပုဂၢိဳလ္၊ လူတန္းစား။ Before the match we were definitely the underdogs.
Examples
- ‘In his lifetime
- he became a symbol of courage to a deprived country
- the underdog in all his fights and still coming out on top.’
- ‘Hopefully we will continue to be supported
- though people have to remember that
- even after two victories
- we are still underdogs in every game.’
- ‘Going into the match as underdogs
- his concern was to compete effectively against the champions.’
- ‘He went into the fight as the underdog and came out 15 rounds later as the world champion on points
- with the judges split two to one.’
- ‘Then even the most tired plot device of all can work: the underdog fighting all odds to win.’
- ‘We will be huge underdogs in the quarter-finals but we have nothing to lose’
- ‘A gentleman genius
- who fought for the underdog and played truly inspirational music.’
- ‘We were certainly the underdogs in this competition
- Jess
- and it's not really a surprise we didn't win.’
- ‘We went into this game as complete underdogs but produced a performance of grit and determination in true championship fashion.’
- ‘The thing is though
- there's more than one way to win a football match
- as underdogs have proved time and again over the years.’
- ‘You were the underdog in this fight
- at least to those people who didn't really know you as a boxer.’
- ‘We go into the game as underdogs but it's a great opportunity for the players to go out and enjoy the game.’
- ‘My vote was giving the underdog a chance; it was a sympathy vote.’
- ‘We have always been big underdogs in the derby games and more often than not we have gone into the game worrying about them rather than concentrating on our own strengths.’
- ‘Isn't this the band of underdogs that won over America with grit and determination?’
- ‘Denis was the underdog
- but the tide of the fight soon turned against the heavily favored Suzuki.’
- ‘In sports
- it's fun to root for the underdog because of the small chance that he can knock off a superstar.’
- ‘It's always enjoyable to watch a story where an underdog has to fight incredible odds to win.’
- ‘We are all on the same side
- underdogs fighting against social and environmental oppression.’
- ‘The underdogs in any fight usually prepare body and mind meticulously before stepping into the ring.’