Sinhala (සිංහල) stringlengths 2 127 | Type of FOS stringclasses 54 values | Literal / visual image stringlengths 3 224 ⌀ | Corresponding FOS in English stringlengths 5 127 ⌀ | What it really implies stringlengths 4 279 ⌀ | Additional Context stringclasses 125 values |
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එලොව පොල් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Other-world coconuts | Mare's nest | an illusory discovery | null |
හුරස් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Trouble/Hassle (Slang) | Beside the mark | not striking the point aimed at | null |
කොහෙද යන්නේ මල්ලෙ පොල් | [විශ්වාස][ප්රපංච][ප්රකාශන] | "Where are you going?" "Coconuts in bag" | Beside the mark | not striking the point aimed at | null |
මා නොකීවා කියා කියන්ට එපා | [උපදේශ][ප්රපංච][විධාන] | Don't say I didn't say | Mark my words | emphasizing that something you have just warned them about is very likely to happen, especially when you think they should change their attitude or behaviour to prevent it | null |
අහසට පොළොව සේ | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Like earth to sky | Wide of the mark | a long way from an intended targe | null |
හරිම හරි ගැටයක් | [විශ්වාස][ප්රපංච][ප්රකාශන] | A real proper knot | Master-stroke | an outstanding piece of strategy, skill, talent, etc | null |
මැරෙම්වා රැකෙම්වා කියා වැඩක් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | A work saying "may die or may save" | A matter of life and death | a matter of extreme urgency | null |
බඩපුරා වේලක් | [උපදේශ][ප්රපංච][ප්රකාශන] | A stomach-full meal | Square meal | meal which is big enough to satisfy you | null |
හොඳ අදහසින් යමක් කරනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Doing something with good idea/intent | Mean well | to have good intentions | null |
හදි වෙනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Becoming damaged (Hadi) | Measure swords | to fight or contend | null |
හරියට හරියෙ එනවා. | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Coming exactly to exact | Measure swords | to fight or contend | null |
මොළේ වෙහෙසනවා | [උපදේශ][ප්රපංච][විධාන] | Tiring the brain | Burden one's memory | overload the memory | null |
ඒක මතක නැති කරන්න | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | To make that memory lost | Don't mention it | polite reply to someone who has just thanked them for doing something | null |
සාජ්ජයක් දානවා | [පුද්ගලික] | Putting a party (Sajje) | Make merry | be festive | null |
අමුම අමු පිස්සු වැඩක් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | A rawest raw mad work | Midsummer madness | a temporary lapse into foolishness, senseless behavior, folly, etc. | null |
ළෙන්ගතුකම | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Closeness of heart | Milk of human kindness | good, kind qualities | null |
මවු කිරි | [පුද්ගලික] | Mother milk | Mother's milk | something regarded as absolutely necessary or appropriate | null |
පොඩි පට්ටම් කරනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Making into small powder/dust | Make mincemeat | to defeat completely | null |
සුන් බුන් කරනවා | [උපදේශ][ප්රපංච][ප්රකාශන] | Making into dust and debris | Make mincemeat | to defeat completely | null |
හොඳ වචන ටිකක් කියනවා | [විශ්වාස][ප්රපංච][ප්රකාශන] | Saying a few good words | Give a piece of one's mind | to criticize or censure (someone) frankly or vehemently | null |
ඉස්පිලි පාපිලි ගැන සලකනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Considering vowel strokes (Ispili Papili) | Mind one's P's and Q's | to make an effort to be especially polite in a particular situation | null |
ඒකමතිකව | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | With one mind | Of one mind | all agree about something | null |
ස්තානෝචිත ප්රඥව | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Place-appropriate wisdom | Presence of mind | the ability to remain calm and act constructively during times of crisis | null |
සල්ලි මල්ලක් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Money bag | Mint of money | Huge amount of money | null |
වසන් කාසි | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Hidden coins | Hush-money | money paid to a person to keep him or her from telling something | null |
තොරොම්බල් කාසි | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Fancy goods coins | Pin-money | an allowance by a husband to his wife for personal expenditure | null |
සාක්කු කාසි | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Pocket coins | Pocket-money | money for day-to-day spending, incidental expenses, etc | null |
ඇස්බැන්දුම | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Eye binding | Moonshine | foolish talk or thought | null |
අන්ද කයිප්පු කැවිලා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Ate "Anda Kaippu" (stupefying drug) | Moon-struck | dreamily romantic or bemused | null |
මවු බස | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Mother language | Mother-tongue | the language first learned by a child | null |
කෙන්ද කන්දක් කර දක්වනවා | [විශ්වාස][කතා][වාර්තා] | Showing a fiber as a mountain | Make a mountain out of a mole hill | you're making a big issue out of a small issue | null |
මුළු සක්වල පෙරළනවා | [විශ්වාස][ප්රපංච][ප්රකාශන] | Overturning whole universe | Move heaven and earth | to do everything you can to achieve something | null |
කිරි ගහට ඇන්නා වගේ කියනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Saying like stabbing the milk tree | Hit the nail on the head | to do or say whatever is exactly right or to the point | null |
නැතිවෙන්ට තවත් මුලක් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Another root to become lost | A nail in one's coffin | an experience or event that tends to shorten life or hasten the end of something | null |
ඔරලෝසුව වදින කොටම | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Exactly when the clock hits | On the nail | without delay; on the spot; at once | null |
ඇලි මැලි | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Lazy/Sluggish | Namby pamby | without firm methods or policy; weak or indecisive | null |
අනූනවයෙන් බේරීමක් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Saving by 99 | A narrow escape | a situation in which you avoid danger although you very nearly do not | null |
කෙස් ගහෙන් බේරීමක් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Saving by a hair strand | A narrow escape | a situation in which you avoid danger although you very nearly do not | null |
හරි හරියට | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Equal to equal | Neck-to-neck | level in a race or other competition | null |
උරෙනුර | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Shoulder to shoulder | Neck-to-neck | level in a race or other competition | null |
මැරෙම්වා රැකෙම්වා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | May die or may save | Neck or nothing | with complete abandon and recklessness | null |
මිල මුදල් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Price money | The needful | money or funds | null |
අතනත් මෙතනත් නොවේ | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Not there and not here | Neither here nor there | of no relevance or importance | null |
අහසට පොළොව වගේ | [විශ්වාස][ප්රපංච][උපමා] | Like earth to sky | Neither here nor there | of no relevance or importance | null |
කන්දොස් කිරියාවක් වෙනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Becoming a noise-action | Get on one's nerves | to irritate, annoy, or upset one | null |
මඩිය තරකර ගන්නවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Fattening the pouch | Feather one's nest | to provide oneself with comforts | null |
අලුත් පිට | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | On new back/page | New broom | a newly appointed person eager to make changes | null |
නව පන්නේ | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | New style/variety | New fangled | too complicated or is unnecessary | null |
අල්ලපු ගෙදර | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Adjoining house | Next door to | in a position of proximity | null |
අබමල් රේණුවක දෙයක් නැති | [විශ්වාස][ප්රපංච][ප්රකාශන] | Not a thing of a mustard pollen | Next to nothing | very little | null |
කියාපු විධියේ | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Of the said style | To a nicety | with precision | null |
නුලට | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | To the thread | To a nicety | with precision | null |
රෑ දුටු සිහිනයක් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | A dream seen at night | Nine days' wonder | something that arouses great interest, but only for a short period | null |
අලංකාරෙට | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | For decoration | Up to the nines | to perfection | null |
මුරුංගා අත්තේ තියා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Keeping on the Drumstick branch | Up to the nines | to perfection | null |
හතර දිගට පතළ කරනවා | [විශ්වාස][කතා][වාර්තා] | Spreading to four lengths/directions | Noise abroad | To spread gossip, secrets, or confidential information around to other people | null |
අස්සක් මුල්ලක් නෑර | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Not leaving a nook or corner | In every nook and corner | every part or aspect of something | null |
හැම අහුමුලුවලම | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | In every nook and corner | In every nook and corner | every part or aspect of something | null |
මුහුණ සමග තරහ වී නහය කඩා ගත්තා වාගේ | [විශ්වාස][ප්රපංච][උපමා] | Like breaking the nose being angry with the face | Cut off one's nose to spite one's face | to carry out a vengeful action that hurts oneself more than another | null |
ගිනි ගණන් ගෙවනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Paying fire prices | Pay through the nose | to pay too much money for something | null |
එකකුට එකෙක් දෙවැනි නෑ | [විශ්වාස][ප්රපංච][නිශේධ] | One is not second to the other | Nothing to choose between them | When there is little to choose between two or more things, they are (all) very similar | null |
හිටි හැටියේ | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | As it stood/stayed | At short notice | with notification only a little in advance | null |
ඔන්න ඉතින් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | There so | Now, then! | said to attract attention to what you are going to ask or suggest | null |
ඉතින්, ඇති | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | So, enough | Come, now | express mild disapproval, disbelief, impatience, or skepticism, and to encourage someone to be reasonable or sensible | null |
මේ දැන් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | This now | Just now | a very short time ago | null |
ඉඳ හිට | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Stay stand | Now and then | occasionally | null |
ගණන් නැති | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | No count | Without number | too numerous to be counted | null |
ඹළුව නරක් වෙලා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Head has spoiled | Off one's nut | foolish, silly, or irrational | null |
ඇඟිලි ගහනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Hitting fingers | Put in one's oar | to meddle | null |
ගැටවරකම් කරනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Doing adolescent acts | Sow one's wild oats | to be promiscuous or dissolute in one's youth before settling down | null |
වැඩි බර | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | More weight | The odds | the probability (= how likely it is) that a particular thing will or will not happen | null |
සුන් බුන් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Dust and debris | Odds and ends | miscellaneous items or articles | null |
අගහිඟකම් ඇති | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Having shortages/needs | Badly off | impoverished | null |
ආවට ගියාට | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | For coming and going | Off-hand | ungraciously or offensively nonchalant or cool in manner. | null |
ඉඳුල් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Leftovers (mouth-touched) | Off-scourings | dregs | null |
කුණු කන්දල් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Trash and junk | Off-scourings | dregs | null |
කොස්ස | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Broom | Fly in the ointment | a slight flaw that detracts from value, completeness, or enjoyment | null |
ආච්චි මුත්තා කාලේ | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Grandma Grandpa time | Old as the hills | very old, and perhaps old-fashioned or very traditional | null |
නිමාවටම | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | To the very finish | Once and for all | for the last time | null |
කලාතුරකින් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | In a rare time | Once in a blue moon | very rarely | null |
ඉඳලාමත් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Even having stayed | Once in a way | something happens occasionally | null |
මන්තරය | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | The mantra/spell | Open sesame | a very successful means of achieving a result | null |
කියන දේ අහනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Listening to what is said | Take orders from | to receive and follow their directions or commands | null |
පල්ම පල් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Stale of stale | Out and out | thoroughgoing | null |
බාගෙට පණ ගිහින් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Half life gone | Out of breath | gasping for air after exertion | null |
අතේ මිටේ මුකුත් නැතුව | [උපදේශ][ප්රපංච][විධාන] | Without anything in hand or fist | Out of pocket | having a financial loss | null |
අතින් කෑම | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Eating from hand | Out of pocket | having a financial loss | null |
ගන්ට නැහැ | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Not to take | Out of print | no longer being sold by the publisher | null |
අහලා වැඩක් නෑ | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | No work asking | Out of the question | beyond consideration | null |
හුරු නැති | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Not used to | Out of training | physically unfit | null |
කටු අකුලෙන් මිදී | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Escaping the thorn bush | Out of the wood | clear of or safe from dangers or doubts | null |
එගොඩ වෙලා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Having become the other bank | Out of the wood | clear of or safe from dangers or doubts | null |
වැඩියත් එක්ක | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | With the extra | Overshoot the mark | to do something to a greater extent than is necessary or desirable | null |
බැරි පුළුවන්කම් බලනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Looking at can and cannot | Put through one's paces | to cause someone to demonstrate his or her ability or to show her or his skill | null |
කරත්තෙට බැන්ද ගොනා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Bull tied to the cart | Pack-horse | a horse used to transport goods, equipment, etc | null |
කොට්ට පොල් පටවා වාගේ | [විශ්වාස][ප්රපංච][උපමා] | Like loading logs and coconuts | Packed like sardines | sitting or standing so close together that they cannot move easily. | null |
පගාවක් දෙනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Giving a bribe | Oil the palm | To bribe one | null |
ගොක් අතු ඉරිදා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Young coconut leaf Sunday | Palm-Sunday | the Sunday before Easter celebrated in commemoration of Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem | null |
සමාජ විජ්ජා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Social sciences/magic | Parlour tricks | a usually simple trick or demonstration that is used especially to entertain or amuse guests | null |
නැටුම් ගැයුම් ආදිය | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Dancing singing etc. | Parlour tricks | a usually simple trick or demonstration that is used especially to entertain or amuse guests | null |
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