Essential English Idioms
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Essential English Idioms
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1. to dress up: to wear formal clothes, to dress very nicely
ဝတ္ေကာင္းစားလွ ဝတ္ဆင္သည္၊ ဆင္ျမန္းသည္။

You should definitely dress up to go not only to the Ceremony but also to office.

You don't have to dress up for such a party.
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2.at last: finally, after a long time.
ေနာက္ဆံုးေတာ့၊ အဆံုးသတ္မွာေတာ့။

We waited for hours ,and then the train arrived at last.

Now I am eighteen, at last I can drive my parents' car.
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3. as usual: as is the general case, as is typical
အျမဲလိုလို၊ ျဖစ္ေလ့ျဖစ္ထ။

Zar Ni is late for class as usual. This seems to happen every day.

As usual, Shumawa received first prize in the swimming contest. It's the third consecutive year that she has won.
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4. to find out: get information about, to determine
ရွာေဖြေတြ႔ရွိသည္၊ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္ခ်သည္။
(This idiom is separable only when a pronoun is used, as in the second example.)

Will you please try to find out when the airplane arrives?

I'll call right now to find it out.
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5. to look at: give one's attention to; to watch
ၾကည့္သည္။

The teacher told us to look at the blackboard and not at our books.

I like to walk along Innya road at night and look at the stars.
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6. to look for: to try to find, to search for
ရွာေဖြသည္။
(An adverb phrase such as all over can be put between the verb and preposition, as in the second example, however, the idiom cannot be separated by a noun or pronoun.) elopement bridal dresses

He's spent over an hour looking for the pen that he lost.

So there you are! We've looked all over for you.
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7. all right: acceptable, fine; yes, okay
ေကာင္းျပီ၊ အဆင္ေျပပါတယ္၊ ဟုတ္ပါျပီ။
(This idiom can also be spelled alright in informal usage.)

He said that it would be all right to wait in her office until she returned.

Do you want me to turn off the TV?
Alright, if you insist.
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8. all along: all the time, from the beginning (without change)
အခ်ိန္တိုငး္၊ တစ္ခ်ိန္လံုး။

She knew all along that we'd never agree with his plan.

You're smiling! Did you know all along that I'd give you a birthday present?
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9. little by little: gradually, slowly (also: step by step)
အျဖည္းျဖည္းနဲ႔။

Myat Mon's health seems to be improving little by little.

If you study regularly each day, step by step your vocabulary will increase.
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10. to tire out: to make very weary due to difficult conditions or hard effort (also: to wear out)
ေျခကုန္လက္ပန္းက်ေစသည္၊ အားအင္ကုန္ခန္းေစသည္။

The hot weather tired out the runners in the marathon.

Does studying for final exams wear you out?

It makes me feel worn out!
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11. to call on: to ask for a response from; to visit (also: to drop in on)
လမ္းၾကံဳဝင္လည္သည္၊ လွမ္းေျပာသည္/လွမ္းေမးသည္။

Marlar didn't know the answer when the teacher called on her.

Last night several friends called on us at our home.
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12. never mind: don't be concerned about it; ignore what was just said
ရပါတယ္၊ ထားလိုက္ပါေတာ့၊ ျပသနာမရွိဘူး။

When he spilled his drink on my coat, I said, "Never mind. It needs to be cleaned anyway."

So you weren't listening to me again. Never mind; it wasn't important.
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