Stand pat

Definition

pat /pæt/ v ( -tt- ) ၁။ ပုတ္သည္။ pat a dog ❍ pat sb's hand ❍ ( Brit ) pat a ball (ie so that it bounces up and down) ❍ pat a child on the head (ie as a sign of affection). ၂။ ပုတ္၍ပံုသြင္းသည္။ တို႔၍တို႔၍ (ေသြ႕) ေစသည္။ She patted her hair into place/shape ❍ She patted down a few wisps of hair. ❍ He patted his face dry (with a towel). n ၁။ ဖြဖြပုတ္ျခင္း။ She gave the child a pat on the head. ❍ He gave her knee an affectionate pat/gave her an affectionate pat on the knee. ၂။ ~ (of sth) ပုတ္၍၊ ေပါက္၍ ပံုေဖာ္ထားေသာ (ေထာပတ္)တံုး။ See also COW-PAT adj ၁။ ကြက္တိမွန္ကန္ေသာ။ သင့္ျမတ္ေသာ။ ၂။ ( derog ) ႏႈတ္ေပါ့လြန္းေသာ။ အာေခ်ာင္ေသာ။ GLIB: Her answer was too pat to be convincing. ❏ have/know sth off pat [ IDM ] အခ်ိန္မေရြး ေကာက္ရြတ္ ႏိုင္ေလာက္ေအာင္ မွတ္မိေသာ။ He had all the answers off pat. ❍ She knows the rules off pat. ❏ a pat on the back ( for sth/doing sth) [ IDM ] ခ်ီးက်ဴး သည္။ ခ်ီးမြမ္းသည္။ give sb/get a pat on the back ❍ She deserves a pat on the back for all the hard work she's done. ❏ stand pat [ IDM ] ( esp US ) ခိုင္ခိုင္မာမာ ရပ္တည္သည္။ ဘူးဆိုဖ႐ံုမသီး။

Examples

1. Stella patted his knee reassuringly.
2. He patted the girl on the shoulder in an attempt to comfort her.
3. He patted his already immaculate hair.
4. After washing
5. pat your face dry with a soft towel.
6. ‘I’m hungry
7. ’ he said
8. patting his stomach.
9. ‘Come and sit here
10. ’ she said
11. patting the seat beside her.
12. He patted his trouser pocket to see if his keys were there.