Min Khak Soe San - Short Stories of Min Tha Gyi

Prince's short stories

My dictionary

Air

Everyone knows that air means air. Everyone breathes air. Air is essential for every person.

In slang, "give the air" means "to give up on your lover ." So I wondered if the word "lover" is synonymous with "air."

Maybe. Just as air is essential for people to survive, so is a lover. A lover and air can be in the same order of time.

And air is easily available everywhere. Would you mind if I treated my lovers as air?

Backbone

It's a simple definition. Back means back, bone means bone. When you put that together, backbone means backing . It's the money, the organization, and everything else that's supporting you from behind.

There is another meaning in slang.

Backbone means courage . Do you have courage? I don't have courage, because I don't have Backbone.

Some people have good backbone and some have good backbone.

Cheat

Cheat means dishonesty or deceit. But if you add "er" to that word and it becomes cheater, it doesn't make you a cheater or a dishonest person.

In slang, cheater means glasses . I thought about it a little. How does the glasses that cover our eyes relate to the word cheat?

I think it's a bit related. When our views are tainted with ideological colors, we can't see reality as it is and instead (deceive our own minds) tend to portray it through our own prejudices, right?

We don't see reality. We only see our own prejudices.

Dead

Everyone knows that the word "dead" means "dead." But I came across another word in the slang category: "dead heat ." Dead heat, heat, does not mean "dead heat."

Dead heat means entering the race at the same time . When two boats are racing, or when two people are racing, they enter the race at the same time.

I love the word Dead. When you're Dead, your successes and failures, your highs and lows, all come together in one place.

Eighty-Six

In slang, Eighty-eight and Eighty-Six can be quite confusing.

Eighty-eight means piano .

The meaning of Eighty-six is ​​not 86.

It means "nothing" .

If someone tells me

Let's say you were asked, "What goals do you have?" I would say, "86." I don't want you to think that there are even 86 goals.

There is absolutely nothing in the TV I call it.

Filthy

The word "filthy" means "dirty." But the way the words are transformed is amazing. If you add the word "rich" to the end of the word "filthy," you get the meaning " filthy rich."

But this only exists in the world of words.

In real society, filthy, dirty, and vile people will not become great simply by adding the title "rich" to their names.

A scoundrel is a scoundrel.

G

Green Light

Green is green , Light is light.

So the literal meaning of Green light is “to give green light.” If we were to talk about the secondary meaning, I think we should say “ to give permission, to give authority.” At traffic lights, you are only allowed to drive when the light is green, right?

It's the same now.

If you get the green light, you can just do it.

But the word Green alone has limited meaning.

In slang, Green means money .

It seems like a coincidence. In the two English words Green Light (allowed to do something), the word Green (money) comes first. It's a joke, I don't know what it is.

High

The word "high" means high . Buildings, trees, and mountains are not high. High status is high, and high financial wealth is high.

But in slang, "high" means "drunk." Like drunk.

It's a fabrication. "High" and "drunk" are the same word. Who would put those words together?

It's like some people get dizzy when they go to high altitudes.

ID

ID (both capitalized with the I and D) refers to a personal identification number called Identity. An ID is a document that proves who you are, such as a registration card or employee card.

But if you write id (with both the i and the d in lowercase) , it means the " ego" that exists in your subconscious mind.

In fact, your ego (id) is your definition of who you are (ID).

John

Without explicitly taking a woman , a house is set on fire.