Elbow-grease

Definition

elbow /'elbǝƱ/ n ၁။ (က) တံေတာင္(ဆစ္)။ He sat with his elbows on the table. ❍ He stood quietly at her elbow (ie close beside her). (ခ) အက်ႌ တံေတာင္ဆစ္။ a jacket patched at the elbows. ၂။ တံေတာင္ဆစ္ခ်ဳိး။ ❏ elbow-grease n [U] ( infml ) ပင္ပင္ပန္းပန္း ကာယအလုပ္။ If you used a bit more elbow-grease you could really make those boots shine. ❏ elbow sb out, aside, etc [ PHRV ] တံေတာင္ႏွင့္ တြက္ပစ္ သည္။ He elbowed me out of the way. ❏ elbow-room n [U] ေခ်ာင္ေခ်ာင္ခ်ိခ်ိလႈပ္သာ လွည့္သာ ေသာေနရာ။ Stand back—I need more elbow-room. ❏ elbow one's way in, through, etc [ PHRV ] တံေတာင္ႏွင့္ တြန္းဖယ္တိုးသည္။ He elbowed his way through (the crowd). ❏ give sb/get the elbow [ IDM ] ( infml ) ထုတ္ပစ္သည္။ ပယ္သည္။ စြန္႔သည္။ She gave me the elbow when she started going out with Roger.

Examples

1. She sat with her elbows on the table.