| 单词 | double saw |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdouble saw double saw n. (also double saw-buck) [sawbuck n.] U.S. slang (a) twenty dollars; a twenty-dollar note; (b) a twenty-year prison sentence. ΚΠ 1850 Knickerbocker 36 297 Send me the two double ‘saw-bucks’. 1925 Writer's Monthly June 486/1 Double sawbuck, a twenty dollar banknote. 1926 G. H. Maines & B. Grant Wise-crack Dict. 7/2 Double saw, twenty dollar bill. 1929 ‘C. Walt’ Love in Chicago 25 ‘What'd it net yuh, State Street?’ I asked. ‘A little over a double saw-buck, 'n' I stuffed it all on Hip-Bones, 'n' she ain't come in fur 'er oats yet.’ 1936 L. Duncan Over Wall i. 21 I learned quickly that a dollar-bill was a fish-skin;..a twenty a double-saw. 1945 L. Shelly Hepcats Jive Talk Dict. 24 Double sawbuck, a twenty-year jail sentence. 1948 Time 17 May 87/1 Any tout or hustler around the track can usually work Eddie for a ‘double sawbuck’. 1950 H. E. Goldin Dict. Amer. Underworld Lingo 61/1 Double-saw, double-sawbuck, a prison sentence of twenty years. < as lemmas |
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