On the never-never

Definition

never /'nevǝ(r)/ adv ၁။ ဘယ္ေသာအခါမွ။ ဘယ္တုန္းကမွ။ She never comes to visit us. ❍ He has never been abroad. ❍ I will never agree to their demands. ❍ ‘Would you do that?’ ‘Never’. အဲဒါလုပ္မလား။ ေဝးေသး။ ❍ Never in all my life have I heard such nonsense! ❍ I'll never (ever) stay at that hotel again. ၂။ လံုးဝ။ လံုးလံုး။ I waited for ages but he never turned up. ❍ That's never a Picasso! ❍ That will never do (ie is completely unacceptable). ❍ He never so much as smiled (ie did not smile even once). ❍ ‘I told my boss exactly what I thought of him. ’ ‘You never did!’ (ie ‘Surely you didn't!’) ❍ ( infml ) ‘You took my bike. ’ ‘No, I never (did). ’ ❍ ( dated or joc ) Never fear (ie Do not worry), everything will be all right. interj ( infml ) မဟုတ္ေရးခ်မဟုတ္။ မယံုေရးခ်မယံု။ ‘I got the job. ’ ‘Never!’ ❏ (well,) I never (did)! [ IDM ] (အံ့ဩျခင္း၊ မေက်နပ္ျခင္းကို ေဖာ္ျပေသာ စကား)။ အံ့ေရာ။ အံ့ပါရဲ႕။ Well, I never! Fancy getting married and not telling us! ❏ never- ending adj မၿပီးႏိုင္ မဆံုးႏိုင္ေသာ။ a never-ending supply of jokes ❍ I'm tired of your never-ending complaints. ❏ never- never land n [sing] စိတ္ကူးယဥ္ကမ႓ာ။ a never- never land of low prices and widespread subsidies. ❏ on the never-never [ IDM ]( Brit infml ) အရစ္က် ေပးေခ်ဝယ္ယူစနစ္။ buy a new car on the never-never.

Examples

1. I’ve never been in love before.
2. You’ll never guess who I saw today!
3. He must never discover the truth.
4. ‘I haven’t tried Chinese food before.’ ‘What
5. never?’
6. She’d never do anything to harm you.
7. Never say that again!
8. I try never to throw any food away.
9. I waited
10. but she never came.
11. He never even said goodbye.
12. ‘She had the baby nine weeks early.’ ‘Never!’