Dictionary entry

Pearls before swine

Pronunciation

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Myanmar Meaning

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Definition

pearl /pɜ:l/ n ၁။ (က) ပုလဲ။ a string of pearls ❍ a pearl necklace. (ခ) ေမြးပုလဲ။ See also MOTHER-OF- PEARL, SEED-PEARL ၂။ ပုလဲႏွင့္တူေသာအရာ။ ပုလဲဥ။ pearls of dew on the grass. ၃။ ရတနာ။ pearls of wisdom. ပညာ ပုလဲသြယ္။ ❏ pearl barley n [U] ကုလားဆပ္။ ❏ pearls before swine [ IDM ] ေမ်ာက္အုန္းသီးရသလို။ ❏ pearly adj ပုလဲ၏။ ပုလဲကဲ့သို႔။ ပုလဲလို။ pearly white teeth. ❏ the Pearly Gates n [pl] ( joc ) ေကာင္းကင္ဘံုမုခ္ဝ။

Examples

  1. A string of pearls
  2. A pearl necklace
  3. Pearl buttons
  4. Singapore is sometimes described as the pearl of the Orient.