| 单词 | more ships than parish churches |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmore ships than parish churches c. Nautical slang. In phrases: more days, more dollars and variants: the longer one stays at sea, the more one earns (see also quot. 1962); more ships than parish churches. ΚΠ 1843 J. F. Cooper Ned Myers II. ii. 40 I knew there were more ships than parish churches. 1898 A. J. Boyd Shellback xv. 258 The captain was acting on the principle of ‘More days, more dollars’. 1905 S. Jefferson Life in Merchant Marine 56 The ship went too fast for them, since they calculate ‘more months, more money’. 1946 W. McFee In First Watch i. 28 There were more ships than parish churches. 1962 W. Granville Dict. Sailors' Slang 78/1 More days: more dollars! American Merchant seamen's phrase of the Second World War, meaning that the more days they were at sea the more ‘danger money’ they would receive. The term was used sarcastically by British Naval-men whose pay compared unfavourably with the Americans'. < as lemmas |
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