One's best bet

Definition

best /best/ adj (superlative of GOOD 1 ) အေကာင္းဆံုး။ my best friend ❍ the best dinner I've ever had ❍ The best thing to do would be to apologize. ❍ The best thing about the party was the food. ❍ He's the best man for the job. ❍ What is the best make of tennis-racket? ❍ the best-looking man she had ever met ❍ the company's best-ever results ❍ It's best to go by bus. See also GOOD adj , BETTER adj adv (often in compounds) (က) …အထူးေကာင္းစြာ။ the best- dressed politician ❍ the best-kept garden in the street ❍ He works best in the mornings. ❍ These insects are best seen through a microscope. ❍ She's the person best able to cope. (ခ) …ဆံုး။ his best-known / best-loved poem ❍ I enjoyed her first novel best (of all). (ဂ) အသင့္ေလ်ာ္ဆံုး။ Some things are best kept secret. ❍ Do as you think best (ie what you think is the most suitable thing to do). n [sing] ၁။ အေကာင္းဆံုး။ ေခါင္။ ထိပ္တန္း။ She wants the best of everything (ie wants her life, possessions, etc to be perfect). ❍ When you pay that much for a meal you expect the best. ❍ He was acting from the best of motives. ေစတနာေကာင္းႏွင့္ ဟန္ေဆာင္သည္။ ❍ They're all good players, but she's the best of the lot/bunch. ❍ He is among the best of our workers. ❍ We're the best of friends (ie very close friends). ၂။ အျဖစ္ႏိုင္ဆံုး။ အတတ္ႏိုင္ ဆံုး။ £50 is the best I can offer you. ❍ The best we can hope for is that we don't lose money on the deal. ❍ I've only done a temporary repair because that's the best I can manage. v အႏိုင္ရသည္။ သာသည္။ ေက်ာသည္။ ❏ all the best [ IDM ] ( infml ) (ခြဲခြာႏႈတ္ဆက္စကား)။ အရာရာအေကာင္းဆံုးျဖစ္ပါေစ။ Goodbye, and all the best! ❍ Here's wishing you all the best in the coming year. ❏ as best one can [ IDM ] တတ္အားသမွ် အေကာင္းဆံုး။ The facilities were not ideal but we managed as best we could. ❏ at best [ IDM ] အေမွ်ာ္လင့္ႏိုင္ဆံုး။ အညႇာတာဆံုး။ We can't arrive before Friday at best. ❍ His action was at best ill-advised. အညႇာတာဆံုးဆိုရလွ်င္။ ❏ at its/one's best [ IDM ] အေကာင္းဆံုး အေနအထား။ modern architecture at its best ❍ Chaplin was at his best playing the little tramp. ❍ I wasn't feeling at my best at the party so I didn't enjoy it. ❏ (even) at the best of times [ IDM ] အေကာင္းဆံုး ဆိုေသာ အေျခအေနမွာ(ပင္)။ He's bad-tempered at the best of times—he'll be even worse now! ❏ be (all) for the best [ IDM ] အခုဘယ္လိုေနေန ဇာတ္သိမ္း ေကာင္းဖို႔ပဲ။ Perhaps not getting that job will turn out to be all for the best—you might get one you prefer. ❏ be on one's best behaviour [ IDM ] တတ္ႏိုင္သမွ် အယဥ္ေက်းဆံုး၊ အရည္မြန္ဆံုး ျပဳမူသည္။ ❏ one's best bet [ IDM ] ( infml ) ကိုယ့္ဆႏၵျပည့္ဝေစမည့္ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္၊ လုပ္ရပ္။ Your best bet would be to call again tomorrow. ❏ one's best bib and tucker [ IDM ] ( dated or joc ) အေကာင္းဆံုး (ပြဲတက္) ဝတ္စံု။ ❏ best man n လူပ်ဳိရံ။ Compare BRIDESMAID ❏ the best of both worlds / all possible worlds [ IDM ] တစ္ခ်ိန္တည္းခံစားရေသာ အဘက္ဘက္မွ အက်ဳိးေက်းဇူး မ်ား။ She's a career woman and a mother, so she has/gets/enjoys the best of both worlds. ❏ the best of British (luck) (to sb) [ IDM ] ( Brit often ironic ) (ေအာင္ျမင္ရန္လမ္းစ မရိွသူအတြက္ ကံေကာင္းပါေစ ေၾကာင္း ခနဲ႔တဲ့တဲ့ဆုေတာင္းစကား)။ ❏ (play) the best of three, etc [ IDM ] သံုးပြဲ၊ ငါးပြဲ စသည္ ကစားရာတြင္ ပြဲအႏိုင္အမ်ားဆံုး။ We were playing the best of five but we stopped after three because John won them all. ❏ best seller n ေရာင္းအစြံဆံုး (စာအုပ္ စသည္)။ the best-seller list. ❏ best-selling adj အေရာင္းအသြက္ဆံုး။ လူႀကိဳက္အမ်ားဆံုး။ a best-selling novel/author. ❏ bring out the best/worst in sb [ IDM ] အေကာင္းဆံုး၊ အညံ့ဆံုး အရည္အခ်င္း ေပၚထြက္လာသည္။ The family crisis really brought out the best in her. ❏ do, try, etc one's (level/very) best; do the best one can [ IDM ] အစြမ္းကုန္ႀကိဳးစားသည္။ I did my best to stop her. ❍ It doesn't matter if you don't win—just try your best. ❏ (do, etc sth) for the best [ IDM ] အေကာင္းဆံုး ျဖစ္ေအာင္ လုပ္သည္။ I'm sorry my advice offended you—I meant it for the best. ❏ get/have the best of sth [ IDM ] အက်ဳိးေက်းဇူး အမ်ားဆံုး ရသည္။ We certainly got the best of the deal. ❏ look one's/its best [ IDM ] ၾကည့္(လို႔) အလွဆံုး၊ ၾကည့္(လို႔) အေကာင္းဆံုး။ The scenery looks its best in the autumn. ❏ make the best of sth/it/things/a bad job [ IDM ] အေျခအေနမလွသည့္ၾကားမွ အေကာင္းဆံုးျဖစ္ေအာင္ လုပ္သည္။ We decided to make the best of a bad job and have our picnic despite the awful weather. ❏ make the best use of sth [ IDM ] အေကာင္းဆံုး၊ အက်ဳိးရိွဆံုး အသံုးခ်သည္။ She's certainly made the best use of her opportunities. ❏ to the best of one's belief/knowledge [ IDM ] သိရ သမွ်။ သိထားသမွ်။ To the best of my knowledge she is still living there. ❏ with the best (of them) [ IDM ] အမ်ားနည္းတူ။ တန္းတူ။ At sixty he still plays tennis with the best of them. ❏ with the best of intentions [ IDM ] ေစတနာေကာင္းျဖင့္။ It was done with the best of intentions. ❏ with the best will in the world [ IDM ] ဘယ္ေလာက္ ႀကိဳးစားႀကိဳးစား။ ဘယ္ေလာက္ျဖစ္ခ်င္ပါေစ။ With the best will in the world, this job cannot be done in less than a week.

Examples

1. The best hotel in town
2. Negotiation is always the best way of settling a dispute.
3. [best for] : What kind of soil is best for growing roses?
4. I want to do what’s best for the family.
5. [make the best use of something] : I want to make the best use of my time while I’m here.
6. The best player in the team
7. At the wedding he’ll be wearing his best suit.