ho-hum(adj)= စိတ္မဝင္စားေသာ၊ စိတ္ပ်က္ျငီးေငြ႕ဖြယ္ အေျခအေန ေဖၚျပေသာ
အသံထြက္ :(HO-huhm) 
အသံုး : a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention.

Phrasal Verbs
draw up=စာခ်ဳပ္စာတမ္း ျပဳစုေရးဆြဲသည္။
My lawyer will draw up a contract and send it for your review.

get ahead=အလုပ္အကိုင္ (သို႔) ဘဝကို တျခားသူမ်ားထက္ တိုးတက္ေအာင္ျမင္ေအာင္ ျပဳလုပ္သည္။
You need to make lots of connections in order to get ahead in this industry.

burn out=အလုပ္မ်ားမ်ား လုပ္ေသာေၾကာင့္ လံုးဝ ပင္ပန္းႏြမ္းႏွယ္လာသည္။
If you keep working 16-hour days, you’ll burn out within a month.

(not) measure up=စံႏႈန္းႏွင့္ ကိုက္ညီမူမရိွ။ စိတ္ေက်နပ္မူမရိွ။
This designer’s work just doesn’t measure up to the quality we’ve come to expect.

zero in on=နီးကပ္စြာ အာရံုစိုက္သည္။ ဒံုးက်ည္(သို႔)ေသနပ္ျဖင့္ ခ်ိန္ရြယ္သည္။
We’ve tried a lot of strategies, but we need to zero in on what’s actually working.
jet fighters zeroed in on the rebels' positions.

lay off=ကုမၸဏီမွ အလုပ္ရပ္ဆိုင္းလိုက္သည္။
The R&D department had to lay off a couple of people.

pencil in=အတည္မျပဳရေသးေသာ ရက္ခ်ိန္းသတ္မွတ္သည္။ ၾကိဳတင္စီစဥ္သည္။
Let’s pencil in a lunch meeting next Wednesday – but I’ll call you later to confirm it.

close down=ကုမၸဏီ၊ စက္ရံု၊ အစီအစဥ္ စသည္တို႔ ရပ္ဆိုင္းသည္။
The company closed down the factory because it wasn’t meeting production quotas.

run by/past=စိတ္ကူး အေတြးအေခၚ အၾကံျပဳခ်က္တို႔ကို တဦးတေယာက္ထံမွ အတည္ျပဳ ေထာက္ခံခ်က္ရယူသည္။
That’s an interesting idea. Let’s run it by the boss and see what she thinks.

sign off on=တရားဝင္ အတည္ျပဳ ခြင့္ျပဳခ်က္ ေပးသည္။
The manager signed off on the revised budget for 2015.