| 单词 | dinner money |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdinner money dinner money n. chiefly British money used to buy one's dinner during the working or school day, typically money given to schoolchildren for this purpose. ΚΠ 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 14 Investing part of the day's dinner-money in the purchase of the stale tarts. 1888 F. Langbridge Happiest Half-hour vii. 53 I began with an allowance of sixpence for dinner-money, and rose by slow degrees to tenpence. 1990 Daily Star 20 Mar. 19 This man has never in his life had to worry about paying a rates bill or scraping together dinner money for his kids. 2009 D. Nicholls One Day (2010) viii. 166 The other kids are frightened of Sonya Richards, and even Emma sometimes fears for her dinner money. < as lemmas |
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