| 单词 | at a pennyworth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasat a (good, etc.) pennyworth ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > [noun] > price in proportion to value pennyworth1641 1641 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. I. v. 103 They had it at a dearer penny-worth. 1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub iv. 94 This Tract of Land he bought at a very great Penny-worth from the Discoverers themselves. 1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Basset-table in Court Poems 4 Behold this Equipage, of Mathers bought, With Fifty Guinea's; a great Pen'worth thought. 1729 in New Jersey Archives XI. 167 Which said Plantation will be sold at extraordinary Penniworth. ?1800 Brit. Jester 132 Remember what poor Richard says,..‘At a great pennyworth’... He means, that perhaps the cheapness is apparent only, and not real. 1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss II. iii. vi. 92 I aren't a poor chap. My mother gets a good penn'orth wi' picking feathers an' things. < as lemmas |
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