The sooner the better

Definition

soon /su:n / adv ( -er, -est ) ၁။ မၾကာမီ။ မၾကာခင္။ We'll soon be home. ❍ We'll be home quite soon now. ❍ We soon got there. ❍ He'll be here very soon. ❍ It will soon be five years since I started this job. ၂။ (sometimes in the pattern the sooner… the sooner… ) ေစာေစာ။ ျမန္ျမန္။ အေဆာတလ်င္။ ‘How soon can you be ready?’ ‘As soon as you like. ’ ❍ Must you leave so soon? ❍ She will be here sooner than you expect. ❍ The sooner you begin the sooner you'll finish (ie If you begin earlier you'll finish earlier). ❏ as soon as [ IDM ] (used as a conj ) …လွ်င္…ခ်င္း။ သည္ႏွင့္တစ္ၿပိဳင္နက္။ He left as soon as he heard the news. ❍ I'll tell him as soon as I see him. ❏ (just) as soon do sth (as do sth) [ IDM ] မည့္အတူတူ ေတာ့။ I'd (just) as soon stay at home as go for a walk. ❍ ‘Do you want to go out tonight?’ ‘I'd just as soon not. ’ ❏ no sooner said than done [ IDM ] ငါးေျခာက္ဆိုသည္ႏွင့္ ဖုတ္ၿပီးသားျဖစ္သည္။ ❏ no sooner… than… [ IDM ] …၍မွ် မၾကာမီ။ မေရွး မေႏွာင္းပဲ။ He had no sooner/No sooner had he arrived than he had to leave again. ❏ soon after (sb/sth) [ IDM ] … သည္ႏွင့္ မေရွးမေႏွာင္း။ He arrived soon after three. ❍ They left soon after we did. ❍ I rang for a taxi and it arrived soon after. ❏ the sooner the better [ IDM ] ျမန္ေလေကာင္းေလ။ ‘When shall I tell him?’ ‘The sooner the better. ’ ❏ sooner do sth (than do sth) [ IDM ] (…မည့္ အတူတူ ေတာ့) …က ေကာင္းေသးသည္။ I'd sooner go for a walk than go shopping. ❍ You don't have to come—you can stay at home if you'd sooner. ❍ Go back there? I'd sooner emigrate! ❍ Will you tell him, or would you sooner (ie prefer it if) I did? ❏ sooner or later [ IDM ] အေႏွးႏွင့္အျမန္(ဆိုသလိုပဲ)။ တစ္ေန႔ေန႔တစ္ခ်ိန္ခ်ိန္။ You should tell her, because she'll find out sooner or later. ❏ sooner rather than later [ IDM ] အခ်ိန္ဆြဲမေနဘဲ ျမန္ျမန္။ I hope we can sort it out sooner rather than later.

Examples

1. If we don’t leave soon
2. we’re going to miss our bus.
3. Mum phoned to say she’d be home soon.
4. [pretty soon] : If he doesn’t show up pretty soon
5. I’m leaving.
6. [soon after something] : Danny supposedly showed up at the party soon after we left.
7. How soon can this package be delivered to Brussels?
8. [as soon as possible] : Helen wants you to call her back as soon as possible.