Keep the pot boiling

Definition

pot /pɒt/ n ၁။ [C] (က) (ခ်က္ျပဳတ္ရန္) အိုး။ women making pots from local clay ❍ an empty yoghurt pot ❍ a chicken ready for the pot ❍ She got out all her pots and pans. (ခ) (ထည့္စရာ) အိုး၊ ဘူး၊ ကရား စသည္။ a coffee pot ❍ a pepper-pot. See also CHAMBER-POT, CHIMNEY-POT, FLOWERPOT, LOBSTER-POT, MELTING-POT, POTTED, POTTERY (ဂ) တစ္အိုးစာပမာဏ။ stir a pot of paint ❍ Please bring me another pot of coffee. See also HOTPOT ၂။ [C] (ပန္း)အိုး။ FLOWERPOT: a pot of geraniums on the window-sill. ၃။ [C] လက္ဖက္ရည္ကရား။ TEAPOT: Is there any tea left in the pot? ၄။ the pot [sing]( esp US ) (က) (ဖဲဝိုင္းတြင္) အလယ္ပံု။ (ခ) (အစား အေသာက္ ဝယ္ရန္ စသည္) ဝိုင္းထည့္သည့္ေငြ။ ၅။ [U] = (ဗန္း) ဆရာႀကီး။ ၆။ [C] = POT-SHOT: take/ have a pot at goal. v (-tt-) ၁။ ~ sth (up) အိုးတြင္ထည့္စိုက္သည္။ compost for potting young plants ❍ He's busy potting (up) chrysanthemum cuttings. ၂။ (ဘိလိယက္တြင္) ေဘာလံုးကို က်င္းထဲ ထိုးထည့္သည္။ pot the black (ball). ၃။ (အမဲ) ပစ္ခ်သည္။ They potted dozens of rabbits. ❏ go to pot [ IDM ] ( infml ) ပ်က္စီးသြားသည္။ ပစ္လိုက္ရသည္။ The firm is going to pot under the new management. ❏ keep the pot boiling [ IDM ] စိတ္ဝင္စားေအာင္ ဆြဲေဆာင္ ထားသည္။ ❏ pot-bellied adj ဗိုက္ရႊဲေသာ၊ ပူေသာ (သူ)။ ❏ pot-belly n ဗိုက္ရႊဲ။ ဗိုက္ပူ။ ❏ pot-boiler n ( derog ) ဆူလြယ္နပ္လြယ္ လုပ္စားေသာ စာ၊ ပန္းခ်ီ စသည္။ She produced/ turned out regular pot-boilers while also working on her masterpiece. ❏ the pot calling the kettle black [ IDM ] ( saying ) သူခိုးက လူလူဟစ္သည္။ She accused us of being extravagant—talk about the pot calling the kettle black! ❏ pot luck [ IDM ] ႀကံဳရာက်ပန္း။ It's pot luck whether you get good advice or not. ❍ You are welcome to eat with us, but you'll have to take pot luck. ❍ We don't usually book hotels—we just take pot luck. ❏ a pot of gold [ IDM ] ကိုက္ဖြယ္မရိွေသာ မွန္းခ်က္ႀကီး။ the prospect of a pot of gold when the statue was sold. ❏ pot plant n ( Brit ) (အမ်ားအားျဖင့္ အိမ္တြင္း၌) အိုးျဖင့္ စိုက္ေသာ အပင္မ်ဳိး။ ❏ pot-shot (also pot ) n ~ (at sb/sth) ( infml ) ရမ္းသန္း ေဆာ္ထည့္ျခင္း။ Somebody took a pot-shot at him as he was walking the dog. ❏ pots of money [ IDM ] ( infml ) က်ိက်ိတက္ေအာင္ ခ်မ္းသာသည္။ ပိုက္ဆံဝါလား။ Her father has got pots of money. ❏ potted /'pɒtÇd/ adj ၁။ အိုးစိုက္ (အပင္)။ a house full of potted plants. ၂။ တာရွည္ခံေအာင္ အိုးသိပ္ထားေသာ။ ၃။ ( Brit often derog ) တိုတိုရွင္းရွင္း။ a potted history of England ❍ She gave her parents a potted account/ version of the night's events. ၄။ ( US infml ) အရက္မူးေန [ေသာ]။ ❏ potting shed n ( Brit ) ပ်ဳိးအိုးတဲ။

Examples

1. A set of pots and pans
2. We drank three pots of tea in an afternoon.