英语词汇“cheap jack”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Cheap Jack n. and adj. (also cheap-jack) (a) n. a travelling hawker who offers bargains, usually offering his wares at an arbitrary price and then cheapening them gradually; also figurative; (b) adj. of, relating to, or designating a travelling hawker; (also) cheap, tawdry.

1818 Huntingdon, Bedford, Cambr. & Peterborough Gaz. 6 June 91/2 An itinerent hawker of handkerchiefs, &c. well known in this place, and most other market towns, by the name of Cheap Jack, was on Monday evening last committed to our gaol.

1840 Visitor & Lady's Parlor Mag. Aug. 59/2 Anyone will tell you they are worth a guinea, but as I am Cheap Jack, I'll put em up at a shilling. No bidder? Well, then, take them at 11d.]

1847 H. Mayhew & A. Mayhew Greatest Plague of Life xiii. 214 My beautiful kitchen for all the world like a cheap Jack's cart at a fair—saucepans here, kettles there, crockery everywhere.

1865 C. Dickens Dr. Marigold's Prescriptions: To be Taken Immediately in All Year Round Extra Christmas No., 7 Dec. 2/2 Of all the callings ill used in Great Britain, the Cheap Jack calling is the worst used.

1871 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch (1872) I. i. vi. 93 Making a sort of political Cheap Jack of himself.

1908 Daily Chron. 3 Feb. 1/7 The cheap Jack nostrum of Tariff Reform.

1953 J. Cary Except the Lord xviii. 80 The cheapjack men,..the freaks and the flea circus.

1996 J. Johnson Cheap Tricks & Class Acts ii. 66/1 The segment was also marred by a cheap- jack scene in which rigid model toys were dropped off a cliff.

单词	cheap jack
释义	> as lemmas Cheap Jack Cheap Jack n. and adj. (also cheap-jack) (a) n. a travelling hawker who offers bargains, usually offering his wares at an arbitrary price and then cheapening them gradually; also figurative; (b) adj. of, relating to, or designating a travelling hawker; (also) cheap, tawdry. Π 1818 Huntingdon, Bedford, Cambr. & Peterborough Gaz. 6 June 91/2 An itinerent hawker of handkerchiefs, &c. well known in this place, and most other market towns, by the name of Cheap Jack, was on Monday evening last committed to our gaol. 1840 Visitor & Lady's Parlor Mag. Aug. 59/2 Anyone will tell you they are worth a guinea, but as I am Cheap Jack, I'll put em up at a shilling. No bidder? Well, then, take them at 11d.] 1847 H. Mayhew & A. Mayhew Greatest Plague of Life xiii. 214 My beautiful kitchen for all the world like a cheap Jack's cart at a fair—saucepans here, kettles there, crockery everywhere. 1865 C. Dickens Dr. Marigold's Prescriptions: To be Taken Immediately in All Year Round Extra Christmas No., 7 Dec. 2/2 Of all the callings ill used in Great Britain, the Cheap Jack calling is the worst used. 1871 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch (1872) I. i. vi. 93 Making a sort of political Cheap Jack of himself. 1908 Daily Chron. 3 Feb. 1/7 The cheap Jack nostrum of Tariff Reform. 1953 J. Cary Except the Lord xviii. 80 The cheapjack men,..the freaks and the flea circus. 1996 J. Johnson Cheap Tricks & Class Acts ii. 66/1 The segment was also marred by a cheap- jack scene in which rigid model toys were dropped off a cliff. extracted from cheapadj.adv.n.² < as lemmas
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