Honour among thieves

Definition

honour ( US honor) /'ɒnǝ(r)/ n ၁။ (က) [U] ေလးစားမႈ။ ဂုဏ္ျပဳျခင္း။ the place/ seat of honour ❍ They stood in silence as a mark of honour to her. (ခ) [U,sing] ဂုဏ္ျပဳျခင္း။ It is a great honour to be invited. ၂။ [U] (က) ႐ိုးေျဖာင့္ေသာဂုဏ္။ ႐ိုးဂုဏ္။ a man of honour ❍ Honour demands that he should resign. See also DEBT OF HONOUR (ခ) ဂုဏ္သိကၡာ။ fight for the honour of one's country ❍ The family honour is at stake. ၃။ [sing] an~to sth/ sb ဂုဏ္ယူဖြယ္ရာ။ She is an honour to her profession. ၄။ [C usu pl ] ဂုဏ္ျပဳျခင္း။ bury sb with full military honours (ie with a special military ceremony) ❍ the Birthday/ New Year Honours list (ie the list of awards, titles, etc given in Britain by the King or Queen on his or her birthday or on 1 January each year). ၅။ honours [pl] ဂုဏ္ထူး(ဒီဂရီ၊ ဘြဲ႕)။ gain an honours degree in French ❍ graduate with first-class honours in physics. See also HONS ၆။ your/ his/ her Honour [sing] (ေလးစားမႈျပရာတြင္သံုးေသာစကား)။ ေလးစား အပ္ပါေသာ…။ I plead not guilty, your Honour. ၇။ [C esp pl ] (ဖဲကစားရာတြင္) ေၾကးထိုက္သည့္ဖဲခ်ပ္မ်ဳိး။ ပိုက္ဆံဖဲ ။ v ၁။ (က) ဂုဏ္ျပဳသည္ (သို႔) ဂုဏ္ယူသည္။ I feel highly honoured to be invited. ❍ The President honoured us with a personal visit. (ခ) ~ sb (with sth) (for sth) ဂုဏ္ျပဳသည္။ Large crowds turned out to honour the winning team. ❍ He was honoured with an award for his services to the country. ၂။ ကတိတည္သည္ (သို႔) လိုက္နာသည္၊ ေစာင့္ထိန္းသည္။ I have every intention of honouring our contract. ၃။ (ေငြ) ေပးေခ်သည္၊ ထုတ္ေပး သည္။ honour a cheque. ❏ do sb an honour, do sb the honour (of doing sth) [ IDM ] ( fml ) ခ်ီးျမႇင့္သည္။ ဂုဏ္ျပဳသည္။ You do us a great honour by attending. ❍ Will you do me the honour of dining with me? ❏ do the honours [ IDM ] ( infml ) ႂကြေရာက္၊ ဂုဏ္ျပဳ၊ ခ်ီးျမႇင့္သည္။ The local school has asked me to do the honours on prize-giving day. ❏ have the honour (of sth/ doing sth) [ IDM ] ( fml ) အခြင့္ထူးရရိွသည္။ May I have the honour of the next dance ? ❍ To whom do I have the honour of speaking ? ❏ ( there is ) honour among thieves [ IDM ] ( saying ) သူခိုးမွာလည္းသူခိုးသိကၡာႏွင့္။ ❏ (in) honour bound (to do sth) [ IDM ] က်င့္ဝတ္သိကၡာ အရ။ I feel honour bound to attend because I said I would. ❏ honours are even [ IDM ] သေရက်သည္။ ❏ in honour of sb/ sth; in sb's / sth 's honour [ IDM ] …အား ဂုဏ္ျပဳသည့္အေနျဖင့္။ a ceremony in honour of those killed in the explosion ❍ When she retired after 50 years with the company, a dinner was held in her honour. ❏ on my honour [ IDM ] ကြၽန္ေတာ္သစၥာဆိုပါတယ္၊ က်ိန္ပါ တယ္။ (ဘုရားစူးရေစရဲ႕… စသည္ကဲ့သို႔)။ I promise I'll pay you back, on my honour.

Examples

1. Shame and honour were what motivated people.
2. [honour of] : They were prepared to die for the honour of their country.
3. It’s no longer just a legal issue
4. it’s a matter of honour.
5. A man of honour (=someone who always behaves in a morally correct way)
6. [be an honour] : Being asked to perform at La Scala is an honour for any singer.
7. [be an honour to do something] : It’s a great honour to be here with you tonight.
8. Twenty children received honours for bravery.
9. [top/highest honours] : The town has taken the top honours in the ‘Britain in Bloom’ competition for the second year running.
10. John Tucker was made an OBE in the Queen’s birthday honours.