I'll say!

Definition

say /seÇ/ v ( 3rd pers sing pres t says /sez/ ; pt,pp said /sed) ၁။ ~ sth ( to sb ) ေျပာသည္။ ဆိုသည္။ ‘Hello!’ she said. ❍ Did you say £2.60 or £2.16? ❍ Be quiet, I've got something to say. ❍ Having said that (ie Despite what I have just said), I agree with your other point. ❍ She said nothing to me about it. ❍ If you damage the car, your father will have plenty to say about it (ie he will be angry). ❍ He said (that) his friend's name was Sam. ❍ They say/It's said (ie People claim) that he's a genius. ❍ He said to me that he was going to resign. ❍ He finds it hard to say what he feels. ❍ I said to myself (ie thought) ‘That can't be right!’ ❍ So you say (ie I think it may be wrong). ❍ She said to meet her here. ၂။ ဆို သည္။ say a short prayer/poem ❍ Try to say that line with more conviction. ၃။ ဆိုသည္။ ေျပာသည္။ My wife thinks I'm lazy—what do you say? ❍ Say what you like (ie Although you disagree) about her, she's still a fine singer. ❍ I'll say this (for them), they're a very efficient company. ❍ I can't say I blame her for resigning (ie I think she was justified). ❍ I would say he's right. ❍ I say (ie suggest) we go without them. ❍ I wouldn't say they were rich (ie In my opinion they are not rich). ❍ It's hard to say what caused the accident. ❍ ‘When will the picture be finished?’ ‘I couldn't/can't say (ie I don't know). ’ ၄။ (no passive) ဆို(ပါစို႔)။ You could learn to play chess in, (let's) say, three months. ❍ Let's take any writer, say (ie for example) Dickens… ❍ Say (that) you lose your job: what would you do then? ၅။ ~ sth (to sb) ဆိုလိုသည္။ This poem doesn't say much to me. ❍ Just what is the artist trying to say in her work? ❍ Her angry glance said it all. ၆။ (no passive) အဆိုရိွသည္။ ဆိုသည္။ (ၫႊန္)ျပသည္။ a notice saying ‘Keep Out’ ❍ The clock says three o'clock. ❍ The instructions say (that) we should leave it to set for four hours. ❍ The book doesn't say where he was born. ❍The guidebook says to turn left. n [sing, U] ~ (in sth) ေျပာေရးဆိုခြင့္။ ေျပာပိုင္ခြင့္။ have no/not much/some/any say (in a matter) ❍ I want a say in the management of the business. interj ( US infml ) (က) ေဟ။ ဟုတ္လား။ ‘I've just been given a pay rise’. ‘Say, that's wonderful!’ (ခ) ေဟ့။ Say! How about a Chinese meal tonight? ❏ go without saying [ IDM ] ေျပာစရာမလိုပါဘူး။ It goes without saying that I'll help you. ❏ have one's say [ IDM ] ေျပာစရာရိွတာ ေျပာပဲ ေျပာပါေစဦး။ Don't interrupt her — let her have her say. See also SAY ONE'S PIECE ❏ have something , nothing , etc to say for oneself [ IDM ] ေျပာစရာရိွ/မရိွ။ (ဘာ)ေျပာဦးမွာလဲ။ She hasn't got much to say for herself (ie doesn't take part in conversation). ❍ He's got too much to say for himself (ie He talks too much about himself in a way that is annoying). ❍ You're late for work again — what have you got to say for yourself? ❏ I'll say! [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဟုတ္ပါ့။ မွန္ပါ့။ ‘Does she see him often?’ ‘I'll say! Nearly every day. ’ ❏ I must say [ IDM ] ေျပာရဦးမယ္။ Well, I must say, that's the funniest thing I've heard all week. ❏ I say [ IDM ] ( Brit dated ) ၁။ အလို။ I say! What a huge cake! ၂။ ဒီမွာ။ ဒီမယ္။ I say, can you lend me five pounds? ❏ it says a lot , very little , etc for sb/sth [ IDM ] …ရဲ႕ ေကာင္းကြက္ကေတာ့ (သို႔) ဆိုးခ်က္ကေတာ့ …ပါပဲ။ It says a lot for her (ie shows how patient she is) that she never lost her temper. ❍ It doesn't say much for our efficiency (ie It shows that we are not very efficient) that the order arrived a week late. ❏ I wouldn't say no (to sth) [ IDM ] ( infml ) ကြၽန္ေတာ့္ အေနျဖင့္ ျငင္းစရာမရိွပါ။ ‘Fancy some coffee?’ ‘I wouldn't say no. ’ ❍ I wouldn't say no to a pizza. ❏ least said soonest mended [ IDM ] ( saying ) အေျပာ မစြက္မွ အျပင္သြက္သည္။ ❏ the less said the better ; ( infml ) the least said … [ IDM ] မေျပာတာပဲ ေကာင္းပါတယ္။ ‘How did you get on in your driving test?’ ‘The least said the better (ie I failed and I don't want to discuss it). ’ ❏ let us say [ IDM ] ဆိုၾကစို႔။ Let's say you don't get a place at university — what will you do instead? ❏ never say die [ IDM ] ( saying ) ငုပ္မိသဲတိုင္ တက္ႏိုင္ ဖ်ားေရာက္။ ေလွခြက္ခ်ည္းက်န္ အလံမလွဲ။ Never say die: we might still get there. ❏ not be saying much [ IDM ] …ေလွ်ာ့ေလွ်ာ့ေပါ့ေပါ့ ေျပာရရင္ေပါ့။ She's a better player than me, but as I'm no good at all, that's not saying much. ❏ not say boo to a goose ; ( US ) not say boo to anyone [ IDM ] သူ႕ပါးစပ္ထဲ လက္ညိႇဳးထည့္ေတာင္ မကိုက္တတ္တဲ့ လူမ်ဳိးပါ။ He's such a nervous chap he wouldn't/ couldn't say boo to a goose. ❏ not to say [ IDM ] တကယ္တမ္းဆိုရရင္။ a difficult, not to say impossible, task. ❏ one can't say fairer (than that) [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) ဒါေနာက္ဆံုးေဈးပါပဲ။ Look, I'll give you £100 for it. I can't say fairer than that. ❏ saying /'seÇÇŋ/ n ဆို႐ိုး။ ဆိုထံုး။ ဆို႐ိုးစကား။ ‘More haste, less speed,’ as the saying goes. ❏ say no (to sth) [ IDM ] ျငင္းရာ။ If you don't invest in these shares, you're saying no to a potential fortune. ❏ say no more [ IDM ] ( infml ) သေဘာေပါက္ပါၿပီ၊ ဆက္မေျပာပါႏွင့္ေတာ့။ ‘He came home with lipstick on his face. ’ ‘Say no more!’ ❏ say one's piece [ IDM ] ေျပာစရာရိွတာေျပာၿပီး။ Once I'd said my piece I wasn't quite so annoyed with her. See also HAVE ONE'S SAY ❏ say-so n [sing] ( infml ) ၁။ အေျပာ။ Don't take it just on my say-so — see for yourself. ၂။ ခြင့္ျပဳခ်က္။ He can't do it without the say-so of all twelve of the directors. ❏ say what? [ IDM ] ( US sl ) ဘာတဲ့။ ‘He's getting married. ’ ‘Say what?’ ❏ say when [ IDM ] (အရက္ငွဲ႔ေပးရာ၊ စားဖြယ္ ခူးခပ္ ေပးရာ၌) ေတာ္ရင္ေျပာေနာ္။ ❏ say the word [ IDM ] ေျပာသာေျပာလိုက္ပါ။ Just say the word, and I'll go. ❏ that is to say [ IDM ] တစ္နည္းအားျဖင့္ဆိုရင္။ three days from now, that's to say on Friday. ❏ to say the least [ IDM ] တကယ္ပါပဲ။ အဟုတ္ပါပဲ။ I was surprised at what he said, to say the least. ❏ to say nothing of sth [ IDM ] ထည့္မတြက္ႏွင့္ဦးေတာ့။ အသာထားဦးေတာ့။ Her knowledge and experience were invaluable, to say nothing of her kindness and courtesy. သူငဲ့ညႇာတတ္ပံုႏွင့္ သိမ္ေမြ႕ပံုေတြကို ေဘးခ်ိတ္ထားဦးေတာ့၊ သူ႕ပညာႏွင့္ အေတြ႕အႀကံဳအရကိုပဲ တန္ဖိုးမျဖတ္ႏိုင္ပါဘူး။ See also NOT TO MENTION (MENTION) ❏ you can say that again [ IDM ] ဟုတ္ပါ့။ မွန္ပါ့။ ‘He's in a bad mood today. ’ ‘You can say that again!’ ❏ you don't say! [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဘယ္လိုေျပာလိုက္တယ္။ ‘We're going to get married. ’ ‘You don't say!’ ❏ you said it! [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေသြးထြက္ေအာင္ မွန္ပါေပ့။ ‘The food was awful!’ ‘You said it!’ ❍ ‘I looked a right fool wearing that Donald Duck outfit. ’ ‘You said it!’ ❏ well said! [ IDM ] ဟုတ္လိုက္ေလ။ မွန္လိုက္ေလ။ ‘I believe we must stand up for ourselves. ’ ‘Well said, John. ’ ❏ what do/would you say (to sth/doing sth)? [ IDM ] … မေကာင္းဘူးလား။ ဘယ့္ႏွယ္လဲ။ Let's go to Mexico together. What do you say? ❍ What do you say to going to the theatre tonight? ❍ What would you say to a whisky? ❏ what/whatever sb says goes [ IDM ] ( infml ) သူဘာမဆို ေျပာလွ်င္ၿပီးသည္။ My wife wants the kitchen painted white, and what she says goes. ❏ when all is said and done [ IDM ] ေနာက္ဆံုး စာရင္း ခ်ဳပ္လိုက္ေတာ့။ I know you're upset, but when all's said and done it isn't exactly a disaster.

Examples

1. ‘Pleased to meet you
2. ’ he said with a smile.
3. ‘When’s he coming back?’ ‘He didn’t say.’
4. [say (that)] : She said that she liked dancing.
5. [say how/what/who etc] : Did he say who called?
6. [say something to someone] : Tell me what he said to you.
7. [say hello/goodbye etc (to someone)] : Say hello to Jenny for me!
8. [say sorry (to someone for something)] : I’ve already said sorry for hurting his feelings.
9. [say yes/no (to someone/something)] : The committee said yes
10. so we can go ahead.
11. [a horrible/stupid/strange etc thing to say] : What an odd thing to say
12. Carrie thought.
13. [say something on/about] : I want to say something on this subject.
14. I think we should stop now. What do you say?
15. [say (that)] : He always said you’d be rich and famous one day.
16. I say we go (=I think we should go) by car: it’s quicker than the train.
17. [would say so/not] : ‘Will she meet the deadline?’ ‘I would say so.’
18. [they/people say (that)] : They say laughter is the best medicine.
19. [as they say] : Time
20. as they say
21. is a great healer.
22. [be said to do something] : She is said to have great talent as an artist.
23. The castle is said to be haunted.
24. [it is said (that)] : It is said that he was introduced to the king by a wealthy cousin.
25. [say (that)] : We are not saying that taxpayers should pay more.
26. Is she saying she hasn’t got any homework?
27. [say something to someone] : This music says nothing to me.
28. My watch says quarter to twelve.
29. [say (that)] : Her letter says she’s arriving at midday.
30. The rules say that we need a two-thirds majority to win.
31. [say how/when/what etc] : Does it say on the box how much it costs?
32. [say something about someone/something] : Your home says a lot about you.
33. This incident says something about the way the company is run.
34. Say you get £2
35. 000 for the car – you’ll still need another thousand.
36. Why don’t we have a break until
37. let’s say
38. 10.45?
39. [say to do something] : Mum said to do the dishes.
40. They lit candles and said prayers for the dead.
41. "There's a £10 administration fee." "Say what now?"