Brush-offs

Definition

brush /brʌʃ/ n ၁။ [C] ဝက္မွင္ဘီး။ စုတ္တံ။ ဘရြတ္။ သြားပြတ္တံ။ a clothes-brush ❍ a tooth-brush ❍ a dustpan and brush ❍ a hairbrush ❍ a paintbrush ❍ a brush stroke (ie the mark left by a PAINTBRUSH). ၂။ [sing] ယင္းျဖင့္တိုက္ျခင္း၊ ၿဖီးျခင္း။ give one's clothes/shoes/teeth/hair a (good) brush. ၃။ [sing] သပ္ျခင္း။ ပြတ္ကာသီကာထိျခင္း၊ ၿငိျခင္း။ He knocked a glass off the table with a brush of his coat/arm. ၄။ [C] ေျမေခြးအၿမီး။ ၅။ (also brush-wood ) [U] ခ်ံဳထူေသာေျမ။ a brush fire. ၆။ [C] ~ with sb [ဥ] ၿငိျခင္း။ a brush with the law/police ❍ She had a nasty brush with her boss this morning. v ၁။ (ဝက္မွင္ဘီး စသည္ျဖင့္) တိုက္သည္၊ သပ္သည္၊ ခါသည္။ brush your clothes/shoes/hair ❍ brush one's teeth clean. ၂။ ဖြဖြကေလးသပ္သည္။ leaves brushing one's cheek ❍ His hand brushed hers. ❏ brush against/by/past sb/sth [ PHRV ] ေဘးမွ၊ ေဘးခ်င္း၊ ေဘးျဖင့္ပြတ္သြားသည္။ She brushed past him without saying a word. ❍ A cat brushed against her leg in the darkness. ❏ brush sb/sth aside [ PHRV ] ၁။ ေဘးဖယ္ထားလိုက္သည္။ ဖယ္ရွင္းလိုက္သည္။ The enemy brushed aside our defences. ၂။ ေဘးခ်ိတ္ထားသည္။ He brushed aside my objections to his plan. ❏ brush sth away off [ PHRV ] ပြတ္ပစ္သည္။ တိုက္ပစ္သည္။ ခါပစ္သည္။ brush mud off (one's trousers) ❍ She brushed the fly away (from her face). ❏ brush oneself/sth down [ PHRV ] ဘရြတ္ျဖင့္ ပြတ္တိုက္ သည္။ Your coat needs brushing down—it's covered in dust. ❏ brush off [ PHRV ] ပြတ္တိုက္၍ ကြၽတ္သြားသည္၊ စင္သည္။ Mud brushes off easily when it's dry. ❏ brush-off n ( pl brush-offs ) ( infml ) ျငင္းပယ္ျခင္း။ လက္သင့္မခံျခင္း။ He asked her for a date but she gave him the brush-off. ❏ brush sb off [ PHRV ] ( infml ) လက္သင့္မခံ။ ခါထုတ္သည္။ ေဘးခ်ိတ္သည္။ He's very interested in her but she's always brushing him off. ❏ brush sth up/ brush up on sth [ PHRV ] ျပန္လည္ ေလ့က်က္သည္။ ျပန္ႏႉးသည္။ ျပန္၍ဖုတ္ဖက္ခါသည္။ I must brush up (on) my Italian before I go to Rome.

Examples

1. [brush your hair/teeth] : She hadn’t bothered to brush her hair.
2. How often do you brush your teeth?
3. [brush something off/from something] : Let me brush the dust off your jacket.
4. [brush something out] : If you get paint in your hair
5. you won’t be able to brush it out.
6. Brush the lacquer on thinly.
7. [brush something with something] : Brush the cut surfaces with the lemon juice.
8. Her sleeve brushed the wall.
9. [brush past/against] : She brushed past him.
10. He brushed her lips with his mouth.
11. [brush something away] : Maggie brushed away her tears as she listened.
12. [brush something from/off something] : We had to brush the snow off the windscreen.