Weak at the knees

Definition

weak /wi:k/ adj ( -er , -est ) ၁။ (က) ခြန္အားနည္းေသာ။ အားအင္ကုန္ခန္းေသာ။ She is still weak after her illness. ❍ He was too weak to walk far. ❍ Her legs felt weak. (ခ) မေတာင့္တင္းေသာ။ မႀကံ႕ခိုင္ေသာ။ That bridge is too weak to carry heavy traffic. ၂။ (စိတ္ဓာတ္) ေပ်ာ့ညံ့ေသာ။ He's too weak to be a good leader. ❍ In a weak moment (ie When I was easily persuaded), I said he could borrow the car. ၃။ (ေငြေၾကး၊ စီးပြား) မခိုင္မာေသာ၊ မေတာင့္တင္းေသာ၊ အားေပ်ာ့ေသာ။ a weak currency/economy/market. ၄။ အားနည္းေသာ။ a weak heart ❍ a weak stomach (ie one that is easily upset by food) ❍ My eyesight is rather weak. ၅။ အားနည္းေသာ။ ညံ့ေသာ။ a weak team ❍ She was rather weak at maths at school. ၆။ မခိုင္လံုေသာ။ ယုတၱိနည္းေသာ။ weak arguments/evidence ❍ a story with a weak ending. ၇။ (အလင္းေရာင္) မိွန္ေသာ။ (အသံ) တိုးေသာ။ a weak light/signal/sound. ၈။ စိတ္လက္မပါေသာ။ အသက္မပါေသာ။ ဟန္ေဆာင္ပန္ေဆာင္ လုပ္ေသာ။ a weak smile ❍ He made a weak attempt to look cheerful. ၉။ (အရည္)က်ဲေသာ။ weak tea. လက္ဖက္ရည္ေပါ့ေပါ့။ ၁၀။ (က) ( grammar ) (ႀကိယာ) - d , - ed, -t ဆက္၍ သဏၭာန္ေျပာင္း ေသာ။ (သာဓက- walk, walked or waste, wasted )။ (ခ) ( phonetics ) အသံကို ေဖာ့၍ရြတ္ေသာ။ (သာဓက- bread and butter ၌ and ကို ေဖာ့ရြတ္ေၾကာင္း /ǝn/ (သို႔) /n/ ျဖင့္ ျပသည္။ ) Compare strong ❏ the weak n [pl v ] ဆင္းရဲသား။ နင္းျပား။ ေရာဂါေဝဒနာ သည္။ ❏ weak at the knees [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဒူးမခိုင္။ The shock made me go all weak at the knees. ❏ weaken /'wi:kǝn/ v ၁။ အားနည္းသည္။ ဆုတ္ယုတ္ သည္။ ယင္းသို႔ျဖစ္ေစသည္။ weakened by disease/hunger/injury ❍ The fail in productivity has weakened the economy. ❍ His influence on the party is steadily weakening. ၂။ စိတ္ယိမ္းယိုင္သည္၊ အားေပ်ာ့သည္။ ယင္းသို႔ ျဖစ္ေစသည္။ weaken sb's confidence/resolve ❍ They have not yet agreed to our requests but they are clearly weakening. ❏ weak in the head [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဦးေႏွာက္မေကာင္း ေသာ။ က်ပ္မျပည့္ေသာ။ You must be weak in the head if you believe that. ❏ weakling /'wi:klÇŋ/ n ( derog ) ငေပ်ာ့။ (အေကာင္)လီွ။ Don't be such a weakling! ❏ weakly adv စိတ္မပါဘဲ။ အားမပါဘဲ။ smile weakly. ❏ weakness n ၁။ [U, C] အားနည္းျခင္း။ ေပ်ာ့ညံ့ျခင္း။ မခိုင္မာျခင္း။ weakness of character ❍ the weakness of the dollar/pound ❍ New evidence revealed the weakness of the prosecution's case. ၂။ [C] အားနည္းခ်က္။ ေပ်ာ့ကြက္။ ဟာကြက္။ It's important to know your own strengths and weaknesses. ❍ structural weaknesses ❍ Can you spot the weakness in her argument? ၃။ [C usu sing ] ~ (for sth/sb) မေနႏိုင္ေအာင္ စြဲလမ္းျခင္း။ have a weakness for chocolate.

Examples

1. The illness had left him too weak to speak.
2. Weak stomach muscles can lead to back problems.
3. He has always had a weak heart.
4. Workplace bullies pick on weak and vulnerable colleagues.
5. We are in a weak bargaining position.
6. I was feeling weak and agreed to go.
7. He had a weak character
8. but not an evil one.
9. They can always improve by working on their weak points.
10. [weak on] : The report was criticized for being weak on detail.
11. If you are a weak speller
12. someone should check the letter.
13. The floorboards are weak in some places.
14. A weak gravitational field
15. Weak features
16. A weak chin
17. The case is weak because it is based on very little real evidence.
18. The Scottish Secretary gave a very weak answer.
19. [on weak ground] : They were on weak ground
20. with no precedents for their action.
21. [weak point/spot] : They exploited the weak points in their opponents’ defences.
22. His faith in his family had become weak over the years.
23. [weak against] : The pound grew weaker against the dollar.
24. She makes the tea too weak.
25. A weak solution of hydrochloric acid
26. He had only a weak light to work by.
27. She gave me a weak smile and a little wave.