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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ස්ථානෝචිත ප්රඥාව | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Place-appropriate wisdom | Presence of mind | the ability to remain calm and take quick, sensible action | null |
ආස්ථාන මණඩපය | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Assembly hall | Presence Chamber | a room, especially one in a palace, in which a monarch or other distinguished person receives visitors | null |
යස කැඳ හැළියක් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | A fine porridge pot | A pretty pass | reach a bad or regrettable state of affairs | null |
හරි සටනක් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | A real fight | A pretty time of it | experiencing a very good or enjoyable time | null |
කන් යොමා සවන් දෙනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Directing ears and listening | Prick up one's ears | Listen carefully, pay close attention | null |
අගය ඉහළ නැගල | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Value climbed up | At a premium | to be not common and therefore valuable | null |
මුසුණු ඇඹුල් කරනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Making face sour | Pull faces | produce a facial expression that shows dislike or some other negative emotion, or that is intended to be amusing | null |
සිතා මතා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Having thought and intended | On purpose | do it intentionally, not by accident | null |
වැඩක් නැතිව | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Without work | To small purpose | without significant result, effect, or value, making an action or effort essentially pointless or futile | null |
අගහිගකම | [පුද්ගලික] | Lack-scarcity | Light purse | having little or no money, indicating poverty or a lack of resources | null |
දුප්පත්කමත් වලිගේ නැති ගොනා වගෙයි | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Poverty is like a bull without a tail | Light purse | having little or no money, indicating poverty or a lack of resources | null |
පුම්බනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Inflating | Put on | affected manner or behaviour | null |
මග අරිනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Leaving the way | Put off | cause someone to lose interest or enthusiasm | null |
ඉඳුම් හිටුම් දෙනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Giving sitting and standing | Put up | construct or erect something | null |
දස දෙස | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Ten directions | In every quarter | something occurs four times a year, at three-month intervals | null |
පැල් පදියන් වෙනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Becoming hut-foundation | Quarter oneself upon | To impose on someone for lodging, food, or support | null |
ලොකුකම් දක්වනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Showing bigness | Coming the quarter-deck | To put on airs of authority, to behave pompously, to act as if one is in command | null |
බංකොලොත් තත්ත්වයේ | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | In bankrupt state | In Queer Street | being in serious trouble, particularly financial difficulty, debt, or a very precarious situation | null |
පුදුම සතෙක් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Surprising animal | Queer card | A strange, odd, or eccentric person | null |
ආයිත් අහන්ට දෙයක් නැහැ | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Nothing to ask again | Beyond all question | Without any doubt | null |
වද වේදනාවෙන් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | With torture and pain | On the rack | suffering intense distress or strain | null |
පණ භයෙන් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | With life fear | On the rack | suffering intense distress or strain | null |
ජරා ජජ්ජර | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Decayed and dilapidated | Rack and ruin | a state of decay | null |
විය හියදම් බලාගනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Looking after expenses | Face the racket | to endure an unpleasant situation, difficulty, or a costly burden | null |
සුදියේ යනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Going in the "Sudi" (party) | Be on the racket | to be involved in a dishonest or illegal activity | null |
රස්තියාදු කාරයෝ | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Loiterers | Rag-tag and bob-tail | all types of person or thing, including those that are ordinary and not special in any way | null |
එනකොට එන්නේ වැල දිගටම | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | When coming, comes along the vine length | It never rains but it pours | several unfortunate events often happen at the same time | null |
මොර සුරන හෝ නාකපන වැස්සක් වහිනවා. | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Shark-scraping or Nail-cutting rain | Rain cats and dogs | rain very hard | null |
මුහුණ බුකවා ගන්නවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Making the face sulk | Raise one's back | to become angry or annoyed and defensive | null |
අතීතය හාරනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Digging the past | Rake up | to talk again about a past event or experience that should be forgotten | null |
අවුස්සනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Stirring up | Rake up | to talk again about a past event or experience that should be forgotten | null |
ඇදල ගන්නවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Pulling and taking | Rake up | to talk again about a past event or experience that should be forgotten | null |
තෝං | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Unclear alone (Likely Thon Lanu) | Rake-off | a dishonest or illegal share in profits that is given to someone who has been involved in making the profits | null |
ආ හැටියට | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | To the way it came | At random | by chance, or without being chosen intentionally | null |
ආවට ගියාට | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | For coming and going | At random | by chance, or without being chosen intentionally | null |
වනා තබන වෙඩිල්ල | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Shot fired to the wild | Random shot | An action, remark, or attempt made without careful planning or targeting, essentially a guess | null |
කණ බල්ලන් ගැහිල්ල | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Hitting of blind dogs | Random shot | An action, remark, or attempt made without careful planning or targeting, essentially a guess | null |
කුලීනයා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | The high-caste one | Person of rank | an individual holding a high social or official position | null |
තුට්ටුවක් වටින්නේ නැති | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Not worth a Thuttu (cent) | Not worth a rap | something is completely worthless, valueless, or unimportant | null |
තුට්ටුවකට යණන් ගන්නේ නෑ | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Does not take for a Thuttu price | Don't care a rap | to not care at all or to have no interest in something | null |
ටොක්කක් | [පුද්ගලික] | A knock | Rap on the knuckles | a reprimand | null |
කොහොම වුවත් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | However it became | At any rate | whatever happens or may have happened | null |
අඩු වශයෙන් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | By less amount | At any rate | whatever happens or may have happened | null |
ඔය විධියට | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | In that style/way | At that rate | whatever happens or may have happened | null |
කියන්ට වුවමනා නැත | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | No need to say | Stand to reason | it is obvious or logical. | null |
කිසි වගක් තුගක් නැතුව | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Without any info or root | Without rhyme or reason | to be without any obvious reasonable explanation | null |
මිනිහා කවූද නොදැන ක්රියා කරනවා | [විශ්වාස][ප්රපංච][ප්රකාශන] | Acting not knowing who the man is | Reckon without one's host | to fail to consider the person or thing that is essential to a calculation or plan | null |
හිත හදාගන්නවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Making the mind | Reconcile oneself | to accept a situation or fact although you do not like it | null |
වාර්තාවක් පිහිටු වනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Establishing a record | Establish a record | to create a permanent, reliable account of an event or activity | null |
වාර්තාවක් බිඳිනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Breaking a record | Break a record | to surpass a previously established best achievement | null |
දොයිතුවක | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Of a "Doithuwa" (small coin) | A red cent | an amount of money so small that it's basically worthless | null |
තඹ සල්ලියක් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | A copper coin | A red cent | an amount of money so small that it's basically worthless | null |
බඩුත් එක | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | With the goods | Red-handed | in the act of committing a crime or misdeed | null |
බොරු ඉවක් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | False scent/instinct | Red herring | a clue or piece of information that is, or is intended to be, misleading or distracting | null |
අතුරු කථාවක් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Side story | Red herring | a clue or piece of information that is, or is intended to be, misleading or distracting | null |
මල්ලෙ පොල් කථාවක් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Bag-coconut story | Red herring | a clue or piece of information that is, or is intended to be, misleading or distracting | null |
නරියා කුකුළා කැළේ සඟවා පොල්ලෙල්ල බැහැගෙන දුවනවාලු | [විශ්වාස][කතා][වාර්තා] | The fox hid the chicken and runs biting the husk | *Red herring | null | null |
නයාට අඳු කොළ වගෙයි | [විශ්වාස][ප්රපංච][උපමා] | Like Andu leaves to the Cobra | Like a red rag to a bull | an object, utterance, or act that is certain to provoke someone | null |
ජුවල් නගිනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Temper rising | See red | become very angry suddenly | null |
දිරච්ච අත්තක් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | A rotten branch | A broken reed | something or someone that fails when relied on for support or help | null |
ඉස්සෙල්ලා අහල බැලීම | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Asking and looking first | The first refusal | the privilege of deciding whether to accept or reject something before it is offered to others | null |
කරුණා ශුභාශිංසන | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Kindness and good wishes | Kind regards | expressing good wishes and professionalism to the recipient | null |
ඔරලෝසුව වැදෙන්නා වාගේ | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Like the clock striking | Regular as clockwork | never late or always at the same time | null |
හූ මිටි තියන්නා වාගේ | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Like stacking sheaves of "Hoo" (shouts) | Regular as clockwork | never late or always at the same time | null |
කැපී පෙනෙන | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Appearing cut | In relief | carved or molded so as to project from a surface | null |
මේ වගට | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | To this fact/information | I remain | to stay in the same place or in the same condition | null |
මෘත කලේ බරය | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | The weight of the dead body | The remains | pieces or parts of something that continue to exist when most of it has been used, destroyed, or taken away | null |
සත්යග්රහය | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Grasping the truth | Passive resistance | the act of showing in a peaceful way that you oppose something, rather than using violence | null |
බැසැ දකිනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Getting down and seeing | To pay one's respects to | To visit someone, a grave, or a solemn place to express respect, gratitude, or sympath | null |
භූමදාන කරනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Donating to the earth | Lay to rest | bury someone's body in a grave | null |
දිනුම් පිට ඉන්නවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Staying on the winning side/back | Rest on one's laurels | to be satisfied with your achievements and not to make an effort to do anything else | null |
සැරද! | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Thrive! | Many happy returns of the day! | said to mean "Happy birthday" | null |
දීර්ඝායු ලැබේවා! | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | May long life be received! | Many happy returns of the day! | said to mean "Happy birthday" | null |
හැරෙන තැපෑලෙන් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | By the turning post | By return of post | in the first post collection that leaves after you receive a letter | null |
මුදුන් මල්කඩ | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Top/Pinnacle flower wreath | *The blue ribbon | null | null |
රන්පටය | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Gold strap/band | *The blue ribbon | null | null |
තියාගන මරනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Keeping and killing | Ride to death | someone who is extremely loyal, someone who will support you through any hardship, even to their own detriment | null |
කකුල් දෙකේ රථයෙන් යනවා | [විශ්වාස][ප්රපංච][ප්රකාශන] | Going by the two-legged vehicle | Ride in the marrow-bone coach | to go on foot | null |
ලොකුකම් දක්වනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Showing bigness | Ride the high horse | to act or speak as if you are morally superior to others, showing arrogance, conceit, and a condescending attitude | null |
රස්තියාදුකාරයෝ | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Loiterers | The riff-raff | people with a bad reputation or of a low social class | null |
ජේත්තු වෙනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Becoming "Jeththu" (stylish) | Rig out | to put a particular type of clothing on someone | null |
ලකලෑස්ති කරනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Making ready | Rig up | to quickly make a piece of equipment from any materials you can find | null |
දකුණු අත | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Right hand | Right arm | one's most reliable helper | null |
හොඳ වැඩේ | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | The good work | Serves you right | that person deserves it | null |
හොඳ සිහිය | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Good consciousness | Right mind | having a healthy mental state | null |
කල්ලි ගැහෙනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Forming gangs | Form a ring | to create a circular arrangement of people or things | null |
දෙක කරනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Doing two | To run riot | behave in a violent and unrestrained way | null |
බිමට එළිය වැටෙන කොට නැගිටිනවා | [විශ්වාස][ප්රපංච][ප්රකාශන] | Waking up when light falls on the ground | Rise with the lark | get up early in the morning | null |
මල්ලෙන් අරන් පෙට්ටියට දමනවා | [විශ්වාස][ප්රපංච][ප්රකාශන] | Taking from the bag and putting in the box | Rob Peter to pay Paul | take something away from one person to pay another | null |
අටුව කඩල පුටුව හදනවා | [විශ්වාස][ප්රපංච][ප්රකාශන] | Breaking the barn to make a chair | *Rob Peter to pay Paul | null | null |
සුණු විසුණු වී | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Becoming powder and dust | On the rock | experiencing difficulties and likely to fail | null |
අතේ සතේ නැතුව | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Without a cent in hand | On the rock | experiencing difficulties and likely to fail | null |
කුණු කොල්ලෙට | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | For dirt plunder | Rock-bottom | at the lowest possible level | null |
උපන් ගමන් දණ ගාන්ට පුළුවනැ | [විශ්වාස][ප්රපංච][ප්රශ්න] | Can one crawl as soon as born? | Rome was not built in a day | important things take time and significant effort to complete | null |
දේසේ හැටියටයි බාසේ | [විශ්වාස][ප්රපංච][ප්රකාශන] | Language according to the land | When at Rome do as the Romans do | when you are visiting another place, you should follow the customs of the people in that place | null |
මූලෝත් පාටනයෙන් | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | By uprooting | Root and branch | completely | null |
මුලින් උදුරා දමනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Plucking out from the root | Root out | find and get rid of a harmful or dangerous person or thing | null |
මූලෝත්පාටනය කරනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Doing root-uprooting | Root out | find and get rid of a harmful or dangerous person or thing | null |
මුල් බැස ගන්නවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Roots getting down | Take root | starts to be accepted there | null |
ලනු දෙනවා | [වාග්ව්යවහාර] | Giving ropes | Give one enough rope | to allow someone freedom of action in the expectation that that person will overreach himself or herself | null |
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