| 单词 | green-goods man |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreen-goods man green-goods man n. a dealer in green goods (green goods n. (b)). ΚΠ 1886 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 10 Nov. 8/5 (heading) Victimized by ‘Green Goods’ Men. 1894 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 31 Jan. The New York flim-flammers and green goods men..are still out of the clutches of the United Secret Service. 1913 Amer. Anthropologist 15 347 Quite recently the ‘green-goods man’ has become less conspicuous than the forger or the embezzler. 2004 T. Spargo Wanted Man xiv. 145 George Armstrong, a wealthy ‘green-goods’ man or confidence trickster. < as lemmas |
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