Charity begins at home

Definition

charity /'tʃærǝti/ n ၁။ [C] ခ်ဳိ႕ငဲ့သူမ်ားကို ကူညီေသာ အသင္းအဖြဲ႕။ Many charities sent money to help the victims of the famine. ❍ The money the concert raised will go to various charities. ၂။ [U] (က) မရိွဆင္းရဲသားမ်ားအား ေပးကမ္းစြန္႔ႀကဲျခင္း။ ဒါန။ do sth out of charity ❍ raise money for charity ❍ a charity ball/concert/garage sale. (ခ) ေပးကမ္းစြန္႔ႀကဲေသာ ေငြေၾကးအေထာက္အပံ့။ live on/off charity. ၃။ [U] စာနာေထာက္ထားေသာ စိတ္။ ‘It's not really his fault,’ she said with great charity. ❍ He showed little charity towards his elderly parents. ❏ charity begins at home [ IDM ] ( saying ) ဒါနအစကိုယ့္ အိမ္က။ ဖိတ္ခ်င္းဖိတ္ ကိုယ့္အိတ္ထဲ စဖိတ္မွ။

Examples

1. The Children’s Society is a registered charity.
2. [raise something for charity] : The show raised thousands of pounds for charity.
3. [give/donate something to charity] : I donated the prize money to charity.
4. [a charity event/concert/gala] : A charity event to raise money for the school
5. Their plight is a miserable one
6. but they do not want charity.
7. [show charity (to someone)] : Steele showed no charity to his former friend and partner.