Not to put too fine a point on it

Definition

fine 1 / faÇn / adj (-r, -st) ၁။ (က) အဆင့္ျမင့္ေသာ။ ထိပ္တန္း က်ေသာ။ ေကာင္းေသာ။ a very fine performance ❍ a particularly fine example of this style of decoration ❍ fine clothes / wines ❍ This is arguably the finest collection of paintings in Europe. (ခ) အႏုစိတ္ေသာ။ လက္ရာေျမာက္ေသာ။ fine workmanship ❍ fine silk / china. (ဂ) ေကာင္းေသာ။ လွေသာ။ ႏွစ္လိုဖြယ္။ a fine view ❍ ‘How was your skiing holiday?’ ‘Fine–plenty of snow. ’ ❍ a fine-looking young man ❍ ( ironic ) This is a fine mess we're in! တို႔ေတာ့ ဒုကၡလွလွ ေရာက္ၿပီေပါ့။ (ဃ) ေနေကာင္းေသာ။ က်န္းမာေသာ။ အေကာင္းပကတိ။ ‘How are you?’ ‘Fine, thanks. ’ ❍ My mother was feeling fine when I got home. (င) ( esp Brit ) သာယာေသာ။ ၾကည္လင္ ေသာ။ It poured all morning, but turned fine later. (စ) သန္႔စင္ထားေသာ။ (ေၾကး) ခြၽတ္ထားေသာ။ fine gold. ၂။ ႏုေသာ။ ညက္ေသာ။ fine powder / flour / dust ❍ Sand is finer than gravel. ၃။ ပါးလႊာေသာ။ ေသးမွ်င္ေသာ။ ခြၽန္ထက္ေသာ။ fine hair / thread ❍ a pencil with a fine point. ၄။ အႏုစိတ္ေသာ။ You are making very fine distinctions. ❍ There is a fine line (to be drawn) between assertiveness and aggressiveness. ၅။ ႀကီးက်ယ္ေသာ။ His speech was full of fine words which meant nothing. ၆။ ( infml ) ေကာင္းတယ္။ ေကာင္းၿပီ။ ‘I'll leave these on your desk in the morning, OK?’ ‘Fine. ’ adv ၁။ ( infml ) အံကိုက္။ ဟန္က်ပန္က်။ That arrangement suits me fine. ၂။ (in compounds) (က) အႏုစိတ္။ fine-drawn distinctions. (ခ) ညံ့ညံ့သက္သက္။ ညက္ညက္ ေညာေညာ။ fine-spun cloth. ❏ cut it/things fine [ IDM ] အတိမ္းအေစာင္း မခံႏိုင္ေအာင္ တိက်လြန္းသည္။ If we only allow five minutes for catching our train, we'll be cutting it very fine. ❏ fine art n [U] (also the fine arts [pl]) အႏုပညာ။ သုခုမပညာ။ a fine-arts course. ❏ finely adv ၁။ ေကာင္းစြာ။ ခမ္းနားစြာ။ သားသားနားနား။ finely dressed. ၂။ ရိပ္ရိပ္။ ႏုပ္ႏုပ္။ ညက္ညက္။ မွ်င္မွ်င္။ finely chopped herbs. ၃။ ညက္ေအာင္။ a finely tuned engine ❍ The match was finely balanced. ဤပြဲတြင္ ႏွစ္ဖက္ အထူး လက္ရည္မွ်ၾကသည္။ ❏ fineness n [U] အလြန္ေကာင္းျခင္း။ မူးရည္စေသာ စံခ်ိန္။ ❏ the fine print n [U] = THE SMALL PRINT (SMALL) ❏ the finer points (of sth) [ IDM ] အႏုစိတ္အခ်က္မ်ား။ သိမ္ေမြ႕ေသာသေဘာ။ I don't understand the finer points of billiards but I enjoy watching it on TV. ❏ fine-tooth comb n ဘီးစိပ္။ ❏ fine-tune v အေသးစိတ္ ခ်ိန္ညိႇသည္။ We spent the next few weeks fine-tuning the scheme and made some useful improvements. ❏ get sth down to a fine art [ IDM ] ( infml ) အလြန္ကြၽမ္း သည္။ တစ္ဖက္ကမ္းခပ္သည္။ She's got the business of buying birthday presents down to a fine art. ❏ not to put too fine a point on it [ IDM ] အမွန္အတိုင္း ေျပာသည္။ I don't much like modern music —in fact, not to put too fine a point on it, I hate it. ❏ (go over, through, etc sth) with a fine-tooth comb [ IDM ] ပိုက္စိပ္တိုက္သည္။ အေသးစိတ္ လိုက္သည္။ Police experts are sifting all the evidence with a fine-tooth comb. fine 2 / faÇn / n ဒဏ္ေငြ။ parking fines ❍ Offenders will be liable to a heavy / stiff fine. ❍ Her escapade cost her $ 1000 in fines. v ~ sb (for sth / doing sth) ဒဏ္တပ္သည္။ ဒဏ္တပ္ ခံရ သည္။ She was fined for dangerous driving. ❍ The court fined him a total of £ 500.

Examples

1. ‘Is your room all right?’ ‘Yes
2. fine
3. thanks.’
4. ‘Is it okay if we join you later?’ ‘Yes
5. that’s fine.’
6. [fine for] : I’m not very hungry. A sandwich will be fine for me.
7. [fine by someone] : If that’s what he wants
8. that’s fine by me.
9. One of the city’s finest Victorian buildings
10. She has a remarkably fine singing voice.
11. Fine clothes/food/wine
12. Mr Huddlestone was a very fine man.
13. ‘How are you?’ ‘Fine
14. thanks.’
15. Sarah’s been quite ill
16. but she’s fine now.
17. Your blood pressure is absolutely fine.
18. A fine summer’s afternoon
19. We’ll go to the beach tomorrow if the weather’s fine.
20. I’ve got very fine hair.
21. Everything was covered in a fine layer of dust.
22. The rain had slowed to a fine drizzle.
23. Fine sand/gravel/soil
24. An attractive girl with fine features
25. It seems a very fine distinction to make.
26. [fine details/points] : He spent hours explaining the finer details of the scheme.