| 单词 | a pocketful of rocks |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa pocketful of rocks d. U.S. slang. A piece of money, spec. a dollar. In early use chiefly in a pocketful of rocks: a large amount of money. Now rare. to pile up the rocks: to make money. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > specific sums of money > a dollar skin1834 rock1837 buck1856 scad1856 simoleon1881 plunk1885 clam1886 slug1887 bone1889 plunker1890 ace1900 sinker1900 Oxford1902 caser1907 iron man1907 man1910 berry1918 fish1920 smacker1920 Oxford scholar1937 loonie1987 society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > [noun] > coins and notes > a coin or note rock1837 dingbat1848 smackeroo1942 society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > a coin minteOE minteOE crossc1330 coinc1386 cross and (or) pilea1393 penny1394 croucha1420 penny1427 piece1472 metal1485 piecec1540 stamp1594 quinyie1596 cross and pilea1625 numm1694 ducat1794 bean1811 dog1811 chinker1834 rock1837 pocket-burner1848 spondulicks1857 scale1872 chip1879 ridge1935 society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (transitive)] to push one's (also a) fortune1609 to draw down1890 to pile up the rocks1897 society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [phrase] to pile up the rocks1897 1837 Spirit of Times 3 June 121/1 Old Sir William cleared me out—they acted as foul as a buzzard's nest, or I would have been ‘in town’ with my pocket full of rocks. 1846 D. Corcoran Pickings 143 Here I am in town without a rock in my pocket. 1851 Graham's Mag. Apr. 281/1 A pocket-full of rocks 't would take To build a house of free-stone. 1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous i Old man's piling up the rocks. Don't want to be disturbed I guess. 1927 in C. Sandburg Amer. Songbag 433 Save up your pennies and put away your rocks. 1949 Cavalier Daily (Univ. Virginia) 22 Oct. 4/1 They got a campaign goin' around here to try to stick us students six rocks just to go..and listen to some old bag yell her fool head off. 1977 D. Mamet Sexual Perversity in Chicago 9 Goddam if she doesn't lay half a rock on me for the cigarettes. < as lemmas |
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