Every inch

Definition

inch / Çntʃ / n ၁။ ( abbr in ) လက္မ။ ၂.၅၄ စင္တီမီတာႏွင့္ ညီမွ်ေသာအတိုင္းအတာ။ I'm three inches taller than she is. ၂။ လက္မတင္ကေလး။ နည္းနည္းမွ်။ He escaped death by an inch. ❍ We argued for an hour but he wouldn't budge (ie change his attitude or ideas) an inch. ၃။ မိုးေရခ်ိန္လက္မ။ ဆီးႏွင္းထုလက္မ။ Three inches of rain have fallen in Manchester in the last two days. v ~ ( sth ) forward, past, through, etc ( sth ) တျဖည္းျဖည္း ႏွင့္ သတိရိွရိွေရြ႕ရွားသည္၊ ေရြ႕ရွားေစ သည္။ inch the car forward ❍ He inched (his way) through the narrow passage. ❑ by inches [ IDM ] သီသီကေလး။ The car missed me by inches. ❑ every inch [ IDM ] ၁။ ေနရာအႏွံ႔။ The police examined every inch of the house for clues. ၂။ လံုးလံုး လ်ားလ်ား။ He looked every inch a gentleman. ❑ give sb an inch (and they'll take a mile / yard) [ IDM ] ( saying ) အနည္းငယ္အေလွ်ာ့ေပးပါကမ်က္ႏွာသာေပး ေရႊေရး ပန္းကန္တက္ဆိုသကဲ့သို႔ ကမ္းတက္တတ္ သည္။ At this stage of the negotiations, neither side is prepared to give an inch. ❑ inch by inch [ IDM ] တေရြ႕ေရြ႕။ They climbed the steep mountain inch by inch. ❑ within an inch of sth / doing sth [ IDM ] လက္မတင္ ကေလး။ လုနီးပါး။ He came within an inch of being killed. ❍ He threatened to thrash the boy within an inch of his life (ie very severely).

Examples

1. The car stopped only about three inches from the edge of the cliff.
2. [an inch high/long/wide] : The insect was about an inch long.
3. The gun was inches away from his face.
4. The city was cut off for hours after 10 inches of snow fell overnight.