Strike while the iron is hot

Definition

strike /straÇk/ n ၁။ သပိတ္ေမွာက္ျခင္း။ a miners' strike ❍ a strike by bus drivers ❍ a general/an unofficial/a wildcat strike ❍ call a strike ❍ take strike action ❍ an all-out strike (ie one in which all employees take part) ❍ Air traffic controllers are on strike. ❍ Engineering staff are threatening to come/go out on strike. See also HUNGER STRIKE ၂။ (စီးနင္း၊ ဗံုးႀကဲ)တိုက္ခိုက္ျခင္း။ air/nuclear strikes. ၃။ (usu sing ) ေကာ္ေပါက္။ a lucky strike. ၄။ (usu sing ) ထု၊ ႐ိုက္၊ ကန္ခ်က္။ It was a good strike but it went just wide of the goal. v ( pt, pp struck /strʌk/) ၁။ (က) ထုသည္။ ႐ိုက္သည္။ ေဆာင့္သည္။ တိုက္သည္။ ေအာင္းသည္။ ထိမွန္သည္။ The ship struck a rock. ❍ The tree was struck by lightning. ❍ He struck his head on/against the ceilling. ❍ The stone struck him on the forehead. ❍ HIT v (ခ) ႐ိုက္သည္၊ ပုတ္သည္၊ ထုသည္၊ ထိုးသည္ စသည္။ She struck him (in the face). ❍ He struck the table a heavy blow with his fist. ❍ Who struck the first blow (ie started the fight)? (ဂ) ~ at sb/sth ႐ိုက္သည္၊ ပုတ္သည္ စသည္။ He struck at me repeatedly with a stick. (ဃ) ကန္သည္၊ ခတ္သည္၊ ႐ိုက္သည္ စသည္။ He struck the ball into the net. ၂။ (က) (႐ုတ္တရက္)တိုက္ခိုက္သည္။ The lion crouched ready to strike. ❍ Police fear that the killer may strike again. (ခ) ~ at sb/sth ထိခိုက္သည္။ ထိမိသည္။ ထိေရာက္သည္။ criticisms that strike at the heart of the party's policies ❍ strike at the root of the problem. ၃။ (ဒုကၡ၊ ကပ္ေဘး စသည္) ဆိုက္သည္၊ ေရာက္သည္။ Two days later tragedy struck. ❍ The area was struck by an outbreak of cholera. ၄။ (အေတြး၊ သေဘာ)ေပါက္သည္။ (အံ့အားသင့္) မိသည္။ An awful thought has just struck me. ❍ I was struck by her resemblance to my aunt. ❍ It strikes me that nobody is really in favour of the changes. ❍ It suddenly struck me how we could improve the situation. ၅။ ~ sb as sth (သေဘာ)ေပါက္သည္။ How does the idea strike you? ❍ The plan strikes me as ridiculous. ❍ She strikes me as a very efficient person. ၆။ (esp passive) (ျဗဳန္းစားႀကီး)…သြားသည္။ be struck blind/dumb. ၇။ သပိတ္ ေမွာက္သည္။ Striking workers picketed the factory. ❍ The union has voted to strike for a pay increase of 10%. ၈။ (မီးျခစ္)ျခစ္သည္။ strike a match (on a wall) ❍ These matches are damp and won't strike. ၉။ (က) (နာရီ)ထိုးသည္။ The clock has just struck (three). ❍ The clock only strikes the hours. (ခ) (နာရီ)ထိုးသည္။ Four o'clock had just struck on the church clock. ၁၀။ (တူရိယာ) တီးသည္၊ ထိုးသည္၊ ႏိွပ္သည္။ strike a chord (on the piano). ၁၁။ (ေရႊ၊ ေငြ၊ သတၱဳ၊ ေရနံ စသည္ သိုက္) ေတြ႕ သည္။ strike a rich vein of ore. ၁၂။ သြန္းလုပ္သည္။ The Royal Mint will strike a commemorative gold coin. ❏ be struck by/on/with sb/sth [ IDM ] ( infml ) စြဲသည္။ ႀကိဳက္သည္။ ခိုက္သည္။ I was really struck by the house and bought it immediately. ❍ He's very much struck on his new girlfriend. ❏ strike an attitude/a pose [ IDM ] ၁။ ကိုယ္ဟန္ျပ သည္။ strike a pose for a photograph. ၂။ ဟန္ေဆာင္ျပသည္။ ဟန္ေရးျပ သည္။ He struck an attitude of defiance with a typically hard-hitting speech. ❏ strike back (at/against sb) [ PHRV ] တန္ျပန္တိုက္ခိုက္ သည္။ ျပန္လွန္ထိုးႏွက္သည္။ He struck back at his critics with a passionate speech defending his policies. ❏ strike a balance (between A and B) [ IDM ] အစြန္း ႏွစ္ဖက္ကို ေရွာင္သည္။ ညိႇႏိႈင္းသည္။ It was difficult to strike the right balance between justice and expediency. ❏ strike a blow for/against sth [ IDM ] အက်ဳိးေဆာင္ သည္။ By their action, they struck a blow for democracy. ❏ strike sb down [ PHRV ] (esp passive) ဆံုးပါးသည္။ be struck down by an assassin's bullet ❍ He was struck down by cancer at the age of thirty. ❏ strike fear , etc into sb/sb's heart [ IDM ] တုန္လႈပ္ ေခ်ာက္ခ်ားေစသည္။ The news of the epidemic struck terror into the population. ❏ strike gold/oil [ IDM ] ပြေပါက္တိုးသည္။ ေကာ္သည္။ စြံသည္။ She hasn't always been lucky with her boyfriends but she seems to have struck gold this time. ❏ strike (it) lucky [ IDM ] ( infml ) ကံေကာင္းေထာက္မ သည္။ We certainly struck (it) lucky with the weather. ❏ strike it rich [ IDM ] ( infml ) ပြေပါက္တိုးသည္။ ❏ strike sth off [ PHRV ] ျဖတ္ပစ္သည္။ ခ်ဳိင္သည္။ He struck off the rotten branches with an axe. ❏ strike sb/sth off (sth) [ PHRV ] စာရင္းမွပယ္သည္။ ထုတ္ပယ္သည္။ Strike her name off the list. ❍ The doctor was struck off for incompetence. ❏ strike on sth [ PHRV ] (စိတ္ကူး)ေပါက္သည္။ (မေမွ်ာ္လင့္ ဘဲ)ဝင္တိုးမိသည္။ strike on a brilliant new idea ❍ We struck on a wonderful little restaurant in one of the backstreets. ❏ strike out [ PHRV ] ကိုယ့္လမ္းကိုယ္ထြင္သြားသည္။ သီးျခား ခြဲထြက္သည္။ strike out on one's own ❍ She decided to strike out and start a new career. ❏ strike out (at sb/sth) [ PHRV ] ၁။ (ရမ္းသန္း) ထိုးသည္၊ ခ်သည္။ He lost his temper and struck out wildly. ၂။ (ကေလာင္ျဖင့္) ထိုးႏွက္သည္။ In a recent article she strikes out at her critics. ❏ strike sth out/through [ PHRV ] ျခစ္ပစ္သည္။ ဖ်က္သည္။ The editor struck out the whole paragraph. ❏ strike out (for/towards sth) [ PHRV ] ဦးတည္သြား သည္။ strike out on foot for the distant hills ❍ He struck out (ie started swimming) towards the shore. ❏ strike pay n [U] သပိတ္ေမွာက္ေနစဥ္ အလုပ္သမားသမဂၢ က ေထာက္ပံ့သည့္ေၾကးေငြ။ ❏ strike-rate n (usu sing ) (ဂိုးသြင္းႏိုင္ျခင္းစေသာ)ေအာင္ျမင္မႈ ႏႈန္း။ a player with a high strike-rate. ❏ strike up (sth) [ PHRV ] စတင္တီးမႈတ္သည္။ The band struck up (a waltz). ❏ strike up sth (with sb) [ PHRV ] မိတ္ဖြဲ႕သည္။ ပဋိသႏၶာရ စကားေျပာသည္။ He would often strike up conversations with complete strangers. ❏ strike while the iron is hot [ IDM ] ( saying ) အခ်ိန္ရိွခိုက္ လံု႔လစိုက္ပါ။ ❏ within striking distance (of sth) [ IDM ] လက္တစ္ ကမ္းအတြင္း။ The hotel is within striking distance of the old town.

Examples

1. One of the bullets struck her forearm.
2. The boat struck the bottom.
3. [strike someone/something on the something] : The ball struck her hard on the left shoulder.
4. [be struck by something] : She’s in hospital with head injuries after being struck by a car.
5. [strike on] : Gordon fell from his bike and struck his head on the ground.
6. Can lightning ever strike twice in the same place?
7. Judy’s house was struck by lightning during the storm.
8. [strike someone/something on the something] : He fled empty-handed after striking a security guard on the head.
9. [strike something with something] : ‘Idiot!’ cried Simmons
10. striking his forehead with the palm of his hand.
11. [strike (someone) a blow (on something)] : She had been struck a blow on the back of the head.
12. She’s really striking the ball well and has her confidence back.
13. He struck a superb shot into the back of the net.
14. Police say they fear the man could strike again.
15. The thief struck sometime between 8.30 am and 6 pm.
16. [strike against] : We will use these air bases to strike against the northern territories.
17. Anderson struck twice in three minutes in the first half.
18. Henry struck the winning goal seconds before the end of the match.
19. Striking factory workers
20. The right to strike was then established in the constitution.
21. [strike for] : Pilots were striking for a 6% salary increase.
22. [strike over] : Car workers were threatening to strike over the job losses.
23. Accidents can strike at any time.
24. Three earthquakes struck Peru on April 5th and 6th.
25. [tragedy strikes (someone/something)] : That same year
26. tragedy struck the family again.
27. [disaster strikes (someone/something)] : Disaster struck within minutes of take-off.
28. It was then that the thought struck her.
29. He stopped speaking
30. struck by a sudden thought.
31. The first thing that struck me about Alex was his amazing self-confidence.
32. [it strikes someone that] : It struck her that this was not perhaps the best time to bring up the subject.
33. [it strikes someone how] : It struck us how ill he was looking these days.
34. He struck a match
35. shading it with his hand.
36. The matches won’t strike if they’re damp.
37. The town hall clock struck midnight.
38. [strike the hour] : One of the clocks struck the hour.
39. [strike something from something] : Their names should be struck from the list of candidates.
40. [strike something from the record] : The court reporter will strike that remark from the record.
41. Her hair looks red when light strikes it.
42. [strike a deal/bargain] : These questions must be answered before a deal can be struck.
43. The first English gold coin was struck in 1255.
44. [strike camp] : The order was given to strike camp at dawn.
45. [strike a set] : They were waiting for the director’s order to strike the set.