Dictionary entry
Spit and polish
Pronunciation
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Myanmar Meaning
စစ်ဘက် တိုက်ချွတ်အရောင်တင်ခြင်း။
Definition
spit 1 /spÇt / v ( -tt- ; pt, pp spat /spæt / or esp US spit ) ၁။ ~ sth (out) ေထြး(ထုတ္)သည္။ He was spitting blood after being hit in the mouth. ❍ The baby spat its food onto the table. ❍ He took one sip of the wine and spat it out. ၂။ (က) တံေတြးစဥ္သည္။ တံေတြးေထြးသည္။ He's inclined to spit when he talks quickly. ❍ The boys were spitting out of the classroom window. (ခ) ~ (at sb) တံေတြး ေထြးသည္။ She spat at him/in his face. ၃။ (က) ~ sth (out) ေဒါႏွင့္ေမာႏွင့္ (ဆဲေရး)သည္။ She spat (out) curses at me. (ခ) ဗ်စ္ေတာက္ဗ်စ္ေတာက္လုပ္သည္။ (ေၾကာင္) ခီြးခနဲ ရန္လုပ္သည္။ He walked off spitting with fury. ❍ The cat spat at the dog. ၄။ တဖ်စ္ဖ်စ္ေပါက္သည္။ တဖုန္းဖုန္းကြဲသည္။ fried bacon spitting in the pan ❍ Wet logs spit as they burn. ၅။ ( Brit infml ) (မိုး)တဖြဲဖြဲရြာသည္။ It's not raining heavily any more, but it’s still spitting a bit. n ၁။ [U] တံေတြး။ SALIVA. ၂။ [C usu sing ] ေထြးထုတ္ ျခင္း။ ❏ spit and polish [ IDM ] (စစ္ဝတ္တန္ဆာကို) ေျပာင္လက္ ေအာင္ တိုက္ခြၽတ္ျခင္း။ give it some extra spit and polish. ❏ spit it out [ IDM ] ( infml ) တိုတိုႏွင့္လိုရင္းကိုေျပာ။ ‘What exactly are you trying to tell me? Come on, spit it out!’ spit 2 /spÇt / n ၁။ တံစို႔။ သီတံ။ chicken roasting/turning on a spit. ၂။ သန္လ်က္ခံု။
Examples
- Dino leaned over and spat on the ground.
- The woman spat and shouted insults as they passed by.
- Kerry spat the sauce back onto her plate.
- The machine spat chips of wood onto the ground.
- Mud spitting from the tyres of our bikes
- It’s just spitting.
- Politicians spat insults at each other during the debate.
- If your dad finds out you've been skipping school
- he'll spit blood.
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