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单词 hip-pocket nerve
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hip-pocket nerve
hip-pocket nerve n. originally and chiefly Australian an imaginary nerve which reacts whenever demands are made on one's money, esp. in the context of government proposals to increase taxes.
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1946Hip-pocket nerve [see Compounds 2].
1987 Financial Times 10 July 28/4 The tax promises are aimed squarely, almost cynically, at the ‘hip-pocket nerve’ of middle Australia.
2010 J. Curran & S. Ward Unknown Nation vii. 228 The hip-pocket nerve may have been at the forefront of the committee's focus—above all it wanted people to ‘buy Australian’.
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