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单词 irish sweep
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Irish Sweep
Irish Sweep n. colloquial = Irish Sweepstake n.; also in extended use.
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Irish Sweep1930
1930 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 26 July 15/4 The new Irish sweep, which is to be drawn on the November handicap.
1933 W. S. Maugham Sheppey i. 12 Did you have a ticket for the Irish Sweep?
1937 G. Greene Coll. Ess. (1969) iv. 425 The great muted chromium shadows wait..the novelist's Irish sweep: money for no thought, for the banal situation and the inhuman romance.
1965 N. Gulbenkian Pantaraxia viii. 152 Although I was not a gambler, I did buy a ticket in the first Irish Sweep.
2008 H. Newhard Lifeletter ix. 119 We got lucky again. I should have played the Irish Sweeps.
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