Lombard Streetn.

Brit.

/ˈlɒmbɑːd striːt/, U.S.

/ˈlɑmˌbɑrd ˌstrit/

Forms: Also 1600s Lumber-, Lumbard-.

Etymology: < the name of Lombard Street in London, so called because originally occupied by Lombard bankers, and still containing many of the principal London banks.Paris has a Rue des Lombards, the name of which had the same origin.

figurative and transferred. The ‘money market’; the body of financiers.

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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > [noun] > financial centre

street1555

rialto1600

city1621

alley1720

Lombard Street1721

money centre1838

Wall Street1841

1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 156 Then haue ye Lombard streete, so called of the Longobards, and other merchantes, straungers of diuerse nations assembling there twise euery day.

1645 Ord. Lords & Com., Presb. Govt., Elect. Elders 4 Alhallowes Lumberstreet.

1647 in New-Eng. Historical & Geneal. Reg. (1885) XXXIX. 179 M^r Dixon M^cht in Lumber Street.]

1721 A. Ramsay Rise & Fall of Stocks 190 Trade then shall flourish, and ilk art A lively vigour shall impart To credit languishing and famisht, And Lombard-street shall be replenisht.

1763 A. Murphy Citizen ii. i. 26 There we go scrambling altogether—Reach Epsom in an hour, and forty-three minutes, all Lombard street to an egg-shell, we do.

1815 Pancratia (ed. 2) 367 9th [round]—Lombard-street to a China orange; Molineux was dead beat.

1819 T. Moore Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress (ed. 3) 38 All Lombard-street to nine-pence on it. Note, More usually ‘Lombard-street to a China orange’.

1821 P. Egan Real Life in London I. vi. 83 Beat him hollow, it was all Lombard-street to a china orange.

1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton Caxtons I. iv. iii. 167 ‘It is Lombard Street to a China orange,’ quoth Uncle Jack. ‘Are the odds in favour of fame against failure so great?’..answered my father.

1892 Evening Standard 9 Nov. 1/1 We describe the betting upon a moral certainty as being All Lombard-street to a China orange.

1902 Speaker 26 June 369/2 Much of the floating credit of Lombard Street is based..on loans against securities.

1974 Times 30 Nov. 10/5 If you didn't already know..then it's most of Lombard Street to a China Orange you'd never find out.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	lombard street
释义	Lombard Streetn. Brit. /ˈlɒmbɑːd striːt/, U.S. /ˈlɑmˌbɑrd ˌstrit/ Forms: Also 1600s Lumber-, Lumbard-. Etymology: < the name of Lombard Street in London, so called because originally occupied by Lombard bankers, and still containing many of the principal London banks.Paris has a Rue des Lombards, the name of which had the same origin. figurative and transferred. The ‘money market’; the body of financiers. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > [noun] > financial centre street1555 rialto1600 city1621 alley1720 Lombard Street1721 money centre1838 Wall Street1841 1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 156 Then haue ye Lombard streete, so called of the Longobards, and other merchantes, straungers of diuerse nations assembling there twise euery day. 1645 Ord. Lords & Com., Presb. Govt., Elect. Elders 4 Alhallowes Lumberstreet. 1647 in New-Eng. Historical & Geneal. Reg. (1885) XXXIX. 179 M^r Dixon M^cht in Lumber Street.] 1721 A. Ramsay Rise & Fall of Stocks 190 Trade then shall flourish, and ilk art A lively vigour shall impart To credit languishing and famisht, And Lombard-street shall be replenisht. 1763 A. Murphy Citizen ii. i. 26 There we go scrambling altogether—Reach Epsom in an hour, and forty-three minutes, all Lombard street to an egg-shell, we do. 1815 Pancratia (ed. 2) 367 9th [round]—Lombard-street to a China orange; Molineux was dead beat. 1819 T. Moore Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress (ed. 3) 38 All Lombard-street to nine-pence on it. Note, More usually ‘Lombard-street to a China orange’. 1821 P. Egan Real Life in London I. vi. 83 Beat him hollow, it was all Lombard-street to a china orange. 1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton Caxtons I. iv. iii. 167 ‘It is Lombard Street to a China orange,’ quoth Uncle Jack. ‘Are the odds in favour of fame against failure so great?’..answered my father. 1892 Evening Standard 9 Nov. 1/1 We describe the betting upon a moral certainty as being All Lombard-street to a China orange. 1902 Speaker 26 June 369/2 Much of the floating credit of Lombard Street is based..on loans against securities. 1974 Times 30 Nov. 10/5 If you didn't already know..then it's most of Lombard Street to a China Orange you'd never find out. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1721
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