Be onto a good thing

Definition

thing /θÇŋ/ n ၁။ [C] အရာဝတၳဳ။ သက္မဲ့ပစၥည္း။ ဟာ။ ဥစၥာ။ What's that thing on the table? ❍ She's very fond of sweet things (ie sweet foods). ❍ There wasn't a thing (ie There was nothing) to eat. ❍ I haven't a thing to wear (ie I have no suitable clothes). ၂။ things [pl] ပစၥည္းေတြ။ ဥစၥာေတြ။ ဟာေတြ။ Don't forget your swimming things (ie your costume and towel). ❍ Have you packed your things for the journey? ❍ Put your things (eg your coat and hat) on and let's go. ❍ my painting things ❍ kitchen things (eg pans, plates, spoons). ၃။ things [pl] အရာ။ အရာဌာန။ ပစၥည္း။ ကိစၥ။ interested in (all) things Japanese/electrical. ၄။ (က) [C] ျဖစ္ရပ္။ ကိစၥ။ အခ်က္။ A terrible thing has happened. ❍ I like camping, climbing and that sort of thing. ❍ a difficult thing to do ❍ I've done a lot of things today. ❍ There's another thing I want to ask you about. ❍ I find the whole thing very boring. ❍ The usual thing is to shake hands when you meet somebody for the first time. ❍ The main thing to remember is to switch off the burglar alarm. ❍ say/do the right/wrong thing (ie what is most/least appropriate or polite) ❍ I didn't say a thing (ie I said nothing). ❍ The strange thing is, she didn't tell me her name. ❍ I know just the thing to cheer you up. (ခ) things [pl] အေျခအေန။ အေၾကာင္းအရာ။ ကိစၥ။ Things are going from bad to worse. ❍ As things stand, we'll never finish on time. ❍ Think things over before you decide. ❍ All things considered, we're doing quite well. ၅။ [C] (လူ၊ တိရစၧာန္တို႔ကို ခ်စ္ျခင္း၊ မုန္းျခင္း၊ သနားျခင္းကို ေဖာ္ျပေသာ) … စရာ။ … ခမ်ာ။ You poor things, you look worn out! ❍ My cat's very ill, poor (old) thing. ❍ You stupid thing! ❏ all/other things being equal [ IDM ] အေျခ အေန မေျပာင္းဘူးဆိုရင္။ ဒီအတိုင္းပဲဆိုရင္။ All things being equal, we should finish the job tomorrow. ❏ all things to all men/people [ IDM ] ၁။ လူတိုင္းအလိုက် (လိုက္ေလ်ာသည္)။ He has no strong views of his own, but tries to be all things to all men/people. ၂။ ကိုယ့္စိတ္တိုင္းက် လိုသလိုဆြဲႏိုင္ေသာ၊ ေကာက္ယူႏိုင္ေသာ အရာ၊ ကိစၥ။ ❏ be onto a good thing [ IDM ] ( infml ) ခြေကာင္း ထိုင္မိ သည္။ ❏ a close/near thing [ IDM ] တဲတဲကေလး။ We managed to win, but it was a close thing. ❏ do one's own thing [ IDM ] ( infml ) စိတ္ ႀကိဳက္ရာ၊ သန္ရာ လုပ္သည္။ ထင္ရာႀကဲသည္။ He's always done his own thing. ❏ first/last thing [ IDM ] ႏိုးႏိုးခ်င္း။ အိပ္ရာဝင္ခါနီး။ I always take the dog for a walk last thing before going to bed. ❏ first things first [ IDM ] ေလာေလာဆယ္ကိစၥကေတာ့။ First things first, though—how about a cup of coffee? ❏ for one thing [ IDM ] (အေၾကာင္းျပရာ၌) တစ္ခ်က္ကေတာ့။ ဒါကေတာ့။ ‘Why don't you buy a car?’ ‘Well, for one thing, I can't afford it. ’ ❏ have a thing about sb/sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) ၁။ အႀကီးအက်ယ္စိတ္ဝင္စားသည္။ He's got a thing about French girls. ၂။ တရားလြန္ ေၾကာက္သည္၊ မုန္းသည္။ I've got a thing about spiders. ❏ A is one thing, B is another [ IDM ] တျခားစီ။ ဘာမွ် မဆိုင္။ Teasing is one thing, threats of violence are quite another. ❏ it is, was, etc a good thing (that)… [ IDM ] ကံေကာင္း သည္။ မွန္သည္။ It's a good thing I brought my umbrella. ❏ know/tell sb a thing or two (about sth/sb) [ IDM ] ( infml ) အဆိုးအေကာင္း ေနာေက်သည္၊ သိသည္။ She's been married five times, so she should know a thing or two about men. ❍ He seems perfectly respectable, but I could tell you a thing or two about him. ❏ make a thing of sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေရးႀကီးခြင့္က်ယ္ လုပ္ေျပာသည္။ ဇာခ်ဲ႕သည္။ I don't want to make a (big) thing of it but you did say you would tidy up. ❏ not know, etc the first thing about sth/sb [ IDM ] လံုးဝမသိပါ။ I've lived next door to him for years but I don't know/couldn't tell you the first thing about him. ❏ (just) one of those things [ IDM ] ျဖစ္ေနက်။ ျဖစ္ၿမဲ ဓမၼတာ။ ျဖစ္႐ိုးျဖစ္စဥ္။ well, never mind, it's just one of those things. ❏ one (damned, etc) thing after another [ IDM ] စိတ္ညစ္စရာတစ္ခုၿပီးတစ္ခု။ ❏ (not) quite the (done) thing [ IDM ] မတင့္တယ္သည့္ ကိစၥ။ It wasn't quite the done thing for women to drink in pubs in those days. ❏ see things [ IDM ]( infml ) ထမင္းလံုးတေစၧေျခာက္သည္။ စိတ္တေစၧ ေျခာက္သည္။ ( joc )Am I seeing things or is that Roy over there? ❏ there's only one thing for it [ IDM ] အျခားနည္းလမ္းမရိွ။ There's only one thing for it: we'll have to borrow the money. ❏ the thing (about sth/sb) is [ IDM ] (သတိျပဳေစလို၍ ေျပာသည့္စကား)။ ဒီမွာ။ ဒီမယ္။ The thing is, can we actually afford a new car? ❍ The thing about her is that she's completely honest. ❏ a thing of the past [ IDM ] ေခတ္ကုန္ၿပီျဖစ္ေသာကိစၥ။ The art of writing letters seems to be a thing of the past. ❏ things that go bump in the night [ IDM ] ( joc ) ေခ်ာက္ခ်ားဖြယ္ရာ ညအေမွာင္ထုအတြင္းမွ အသံဗလံ။ ❏ (what) with one thing and another [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေခါင္းမေဖာ္ႏိုင္ေအာင္ အလုပ္မ်ား ေနတာနဲ႔။ What with one thing and another, I completely forgot your birthday.

Examples

1. What’s that thing over there on the table?
2. I gave her a little thing for her birthday.
3. It’s one of those gadget things
4. isn’t it?
5. It’s a thing used for looking inside people’s ears.
6. I’ll pack my things for the trip tomorrow.
7. Turn that thing off and do your homework!
8. I have a lot of things to do today.
9. I would have done the same thing in his situation.
10. [do the right thing] : I gave back the money. Did I do the right thing?
11. A funny thing happened to me today.
12. I think we should just forget the whole thing.
13. [kind/sort of thing] : She doesn’t find that kind of thing funny.
14. [be onto a good thing] : We’re onto a good thing working here.
15. [in all things] : Above all else
16. you must be honest in all things.
17. [make a big thing out of something] : Don’t make a big thing out of this – I just said I’d be late!
18. The first thing I want is a hot bath.
19. If you could change three things about your job
20. what would they be?
21. [things both ways] : I’d like to live close to the beach and close to my office
22. but I can’t have things both ways.
23. [all good things come to an end/must pass] : Our vacation was great
24. but all good things come to an end.
25. The thing I really like about Theresa is her sense of humour.
26. [the etc thing is] : The sad thing is
27. she never loved him.
28. [it’s a thing that] : It’s a good thing that you don’t need to work late.
29. The police soon got things under control.
30. Try to see things from your wife’s perspective.
31. [all things considered] : All things considered
32. I think you’ll be happier if you switch jobs.
33. [as things stand] : As things stand
34. it will be difficult to raise prices further.
35. [put things] : The official government report puts things quite differently.
36. Things have been getting better lately.
37. The government hasn’t done much to change things in the countryside.
38. I’ve become less concerned about material things.
39. [a thing of the past] : His financial worries were a thing of the past.
40. There are some interesting things in your report.
41. I have a few things to say to you.
42. If anyone asks you what I said
43. don’t say a thing.
44. [have things on your mind] : I have a few things on my mind right now.
45. [the last thing on someone’s mind] : On holiday
46. work is the last thing on my mind.
47. What other things did he say to you?
48. My parents send me money for food
49. rent
50. and other things.
51. ‘Racism’ means different things to different people.
52. [that kind/sort of thing] : We spent the day swimming
53. playing on the beach
54. and that kind of thing.
55. [things like] : I need to get a few things like milk
56. bread
57. and eggs.
58. You poor thing
59. you cut your finger.
60. Who’s that pretty young thing I saw you with yesterday?
61. Taking selfies is a thing now.
62. The double-layered vest/waistcoat: when did this become a thing?
63. Brighton has been a home for embracing all things weird and wonderful for years.