Between the devil and the deep blue sea

Definition

devil 1 /'devl/ n ၁။ (က) the Devil ( religion ) မာရ္နတ္။ The Devil tempted Adam and Eve. (ခ) နတ္ဆိုး။ မေကာင္း ဆိုးဝါး။ He believes in devils and witches. ၂။ ( infml ) (က) လူဆိုးလူ႐ႈပ္။ My niece is a little devil. ❍ He's a devil with the ladies. (ခ) (တစ္စံုတစ္ေယာက္အေၾကာင္း ေဖာ္ျပရာ၌ ေလးနက္ေစရန္ သံုးေသာစကား)။ အေကာင္။ သတၱဝါ။ The poor/lucky devil! ❍ Which silly devil left the lights on all day? ❏ be a devil [ IDM ] ( infml joc ) (ရဲေဆးတင္ေပးေသာ စကား)။ Go on, be a devil—tell me what they said. ❏ between the devil and the deep blue sea [ IDM ] ေရွ႕တိုးထမ္းပိုး၊ ေနာက္ဆုတ္လွည္းထုပ္။ မဆုတ္သာ မတက္သာ။ ❏ the devil [ IDM ] (စိတ္အေႏွာင့္အယွက္ျဖစ္သံ၊ မေက်နပ္သံႏွင့္ အေမးတြင္ သံုးေသာစကား)။ What/Who/Why/Where the devil is that? ❏ the (very) devil [ IDM ] တကယ့္မႏွစ္ၿမိဳ႕စရာအရာ။ တကယ္ခက္ခဲေသာအရာ။ These pans are the (very) devil to clean. ❏ devil-may-care adj ေပ်ာ္ေပ်ာ္ေနေသခဲ။ a devil-may-care attitude to life. ❏ a devil of a sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) ခက္ေသာ၊ အလြန္လက္ဝင္ ေသာ ကိစၥ။ I had a devil of a job/time persuading them to come. ❏ devil's advocate n ဝိုင္းစည္ေအာင္ဝင္၍ ေတာတတ္၊ ဆြေပးတတ္ေသာသူ။ အတို႔အေထာင္သမား။ play devil's advocate. ❏ the devil take the hindmost [ IDM ] လူတိုင္း ကိုယ့္ အတြက္ပဲ ကိုယ္ၾကည့္ပါ။ ေနာက္ျပန္ၾကည့္မေနနဲ႔။ ဘယ္သူေသေသ ငေတမာၿပီးေရာ။ In this business you have to be tough, and the devil take the hindmost. ❏ go to the devil [ IDM ] ( dated ) သြားစမ္းပါ။ ❏ like the devil [ IDM ] ( infml ) ခက္ခက္ခဲခဲ။ အားသြန္ခြန္စိုက္။ အရမ္းကာေရာ။ run/work like the devil. ❏ speak/talk of the devil [ IDM ] ( infml saying ) (တစ္ေယာက္ေယာက္အေၾကာင္း ေျပာေနစဥ္ ထိုသူဝင္လာေသာ အခါ ေျပာေသာစကား)။ ေဟာ လာပါၿပီ။ ေသခဲဦးမယ္။ အသက္ရွည္ဦးမယ္။ Oh, talk of the devil—here he comes now. devil 2 /'devl/ v (-ll- ; US -l- ) အရည္ပ်စ္ပ်စ္ မဆလာမ်ားမ်ားႏွင့္ ခ်က္သည္။ devilled kidneys.

Examples

1. They believed she had been possessed by devils.
2. I bet you were a little devil when you were younger.
3. Poor old devil
4. he doesn’t get many visitors.
5. Tell her to go to the devil.
6. You've got to be tough to survive in this business - grab what you can and let the devil take the hindmost.