Reins

Definition

rein /ren/ n ၁။ (က) [C often pl ] ဇက္ႀကိဳး။ Don't let go of the reins! ❍ ride on a short/ long rein (ie use more/ less control). (ခ) reins [pl] ကေလးငယ္၏ကိုယ္ကို သိုင္းခက္ရေသာ ထိန္းႀကိဳး။ ၂။ reins [pl] the ~ s (of sth) ( esp rhet ) ဦးစီး ဦးကိုင္ေနရာ။ hold/ take up the reins of government (ie govern/ being to govern). ❏ give, etc free/ full rein to sb/ sth [ IDM ] [ဥ] ဇက္ပံုေပး သည္။ give free rein to town planners ❍ allow one's imagination free rein. ❏ rein sth in; rein sb/ sth back [ PHRV ] ၁။ ထိန္းသည္။ ဇက္ကိုင္သည္။ ဇက္ဆြဲသည္။ rein in public expenditure ❍ The leader needs to rein back the extremists in his party. ၂။ (ျမင္းကို) ဇက္ကိုင္သည္၊ ဇက္ဆြဲသည္။

Examples

1. [the reins of power/government/state] : It’s his deputy who really holds the reins of power.
2. [hand/take over the reins] : Hiroshi Okuda took over the reins of Toyota in August 1995.
3. [hold the reins] : The designers who hold the creative reins at Dior fashion house