| 单词 | magic pudding |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmagic pudding magic pudding n. originally and chiefly Australian an inexhaustible supply of something, esp. money; an endlessly renewable resource. [With allusion to the title of the children's book The Magic Pudding (1918) by Norman Lindsay (1879–1969), in which a pudding (pudding n. 4) instantly renews itself as it is sliced or eaten into.] ΚΠ 1985 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 5 July 10/1 Mr Keating had warned..that there was no ‘magic pudding’ to provide tax cuts for all. 1998 Sunday Tel. 25 Jan. (Business section) 17/3 Pension funds are not a ‘magic pudding’ from which slices can be taken forever. 2013 Herald-Sun (Melbourne) 8 Mar. 65/6 Infrastructure projects holding out the prospect of being a magic pudding that can create jobs..[and] increase productivity. < as lemmas |
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