| 单词 | money bug |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmoney bug money bug n. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.) (now rare) a person having great wealth or financial power. ΚΠ 1891 Amer. Engineer 27 June 258/1 The money bugs of the East will be helpless in the coming contest, just as the aristocracy of France in 1792 were helpless before the storm of popular indignation which arose. 1922 Public Opinion 11 Aug. 132/2 The profiteering class, money bugs as the Americans call them. 1938 N.Z. Parl. Deb. 1937 248 991/2 The chambers of commerce and the money-bugs of the country are groaning about the taxation. 2012 M. B. Bohn Kin to Wind xix. 289 Unbelievably, my agents, club managers producers and promoters, like so many money bugs, were so busy setting up to profiteer that they couldn't see it was a dead end street. < as lemmas |
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