Dictionary entry
Shandy
Pronunciation: /ˈʃandi/
Pronunciation
/ˈʃandi/
Myanmar Meaning
လိမ္မော်ဘီယာ ၊ ဂျင်းဘီယာ။
Definition
shandy /'ʃændi/ n ( esp Brit ) (က) [U] ဘီယာႏွင့္ အခ်ဳိရည္ ေရာစပ္ထားသည့္ ယမကာ။ ရွႏၵီ။ (ခ) [C] ယင္းယမကာ (တစ္)ဖန္ခြက္။ Two lemonade shandies, please.
Examples
- ‘Yesterday evening
- Senor Ramon and I were reminiscing on a hard days fishing as we gently sipped a few Cruzcampo shandies on the second floor balcony of our borrowed flat.’
- ‘I'm sure that the majority of real detectives have no more than the occasional half of shandy and live in domestic bliss
- and are not haunted by the victims of crimes they could not solve.’
- ‘Witness also denied being drunk
- stating he had consumed only three or four shandies earlier that night.’
- ‘The brain associates completing the arduous learning task with the reward of a vigorous hand shandy.’
- ‘Perhaps we were the lucky ones
- celebrating our adolescence with a pierced ear and a can of shandy
- challenging the system by daring to let our hair touch our collars and wearing non regulation shoes to school.’
- ‘As for the drinking
- they will only have been shandies
- as that is all he would ever drink if he was driving.’
- ‘He'd obviously had a half too much of shandy
- though.’
- ‘The pub was quiet as Dan sipped his pint of Stella shandy
- served by a barman who he'd never seen doing the evening shift.’
- ‘I also like a Pimms in the summer
- and sometimes a shandy
- but that's not very cool
- is it!’
- ‘The ensuing trembling in the morning made the plastic hours in the airport departure lounge more bearable
- with only a few shandies to stop the shaking.’
- ‘The plot flushes through your head faster than a pint of shandy.’
- ‘By 1am
- however
- it's pretty obvious that plenty of people have had more than a few shandies
- and the city's Boar Lane is full of slightly swaying
- but good-natured
- revellers.’
- ‘I washed it down with a pint of John Smith's
- which with my soft friend's lager shandy came to more than £5 a little steep
- I am sure you will agree.’
- ‘Whenever the smoke of the grill became unbearable I would stand in the car park with a lime and lemonade
- or sometimes a shandy
- and she would look up from her book and smile.’
- ‘By the time the Bristolian trip hoppers were announced as 1995 victors
- the pony-tailed creative lynchpin had already had a few too many lager shandies and started ranting and raving at the assembled crowd.’
- ‘I thought it tasted disgusting and it was years before I tried another (although I did enjoy the weak shandies my dad would make for me on special occasions).’
- ‘She normally drank shandy
- but vodka did not seem inappropriate in the circumstances (in fact
- I wished I'd asked for a double Southern Comfort myself
- no soda
- no ice).’
- ‘The ladies drank shandies and the men had beer
- and Folsom proved he had a real talent for booze.’
- ‘Ray arrived and ordered a pint of shandy
- Mark looked at him strangely and then noticed the car keys Ray had put on the bar.’
- ‘Why not add a few fruity beers
- or spiced and flavored wheat beers
- or hard ciders
- or shandies to the list?’