Off the peg

Definition

peg /peg/ n ၁။ အမွတ္အသားျပဳရန္၊ ပစၥည္းမ်ားခ်ိတ္ႏိုင္ရန္၊ တြယ္ထားႏိုင္ရန္သံုးေသာ တစ္ဖက္႐ႉးငုတ္။ ၂။ (က) အဝတ္အစား စသည္ ခ်ိတ္ရန္ငုတ္။ Hang your hat/coat on the peg by the door. (ခ) (also tent-peg ) ရြက္ထည္တဲထိုးရာတြင္ ႀကိဳးဆိုင္းရန္ငုတ္။ (ဂ) အဝတ္ညႇပ္။ CLOTHES-PEG (ဃ) (also tuning peg ) ႀကိဳးညိႇငုတ္။ လက္လွည့္သပ္။ ❍ MUSICAL INSTRUMENT v ( -gg- ) ၁။ (တဲကို) ငုတ္ျဖင့္ဆိုင္းသည္။ (ႀကိဳးတန္းေပၚ၌ အဝတ္ကို) ညႇပ္ျဖင့္ညႇပ္သည္။ peg a tent (down) to the ground ❍ peg the clothes (out) on the line. ၂။ ~ sth (at sth) လစာ၊ ကုန္ေဈးႏႈန္းမ်ားကို ႏႈန္းတစ္ရပ္ျဖင့္ ကန္႔သတ္ ထားသည္။ Pay increases were pegged at five per cent. ❍ Keep public transport fares pegged. ၃။ ~ sb (as sth) ( US infml ) သတ္မွတ္သည္။ စာရင္းသြင္းလိုက္သည္။ She pegged him as a big spender. ❏ off the peg ( Brit ); ( US ) off the rack [ IDM ] အသင့္ ခ်ဳပ္ၿပီးအထည္။ buy a suit off the peg ❍ an off-the-peg suit. ❏ peg away (at sth) [ PHRV ] ( infml ) မနားမေန တကုပ္ကုပ္ လုပ္သည္။ He kept pegging away at his thesis all summer. ❏ peg-leg n ( dated ) သစ္သားေျခတု။ ❏ peg out [ PHRV ] ( Brit infml ) ေသသည္။ ႂကြသည္။ ❏ peg sth out [ PHRV ] ပႏၷက္႐ိုက္သည္။ peg out a claim (ie mark out the land of which one claims ownership). ❏ a peg to hang sth on [ IDM ] အေၾကာင္းျပရန္ ခုတံုး။ He uses this issue as a peg to hang his ideas on. ❏ take sb down a peg (or two) [ IDM ] မာန္စြယ္ခ်ဳိး သည္။ He's too arrogant—he needs to be taken down a peg or two.

Examples

1. Her coat hung from a peg behind the door.
2. The furniture is built using wooden pegs instead of nails.
3. Officials have pledged that the currency peg to the US dollar will be maintained.