| 单词 | a pretty penny |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa pretty (also fine, fair, etc.) penny c. a pretty (also fine, fair, etc.) penny: a considerable gain, profit, or sum of money. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > large sum pounda1225 ransom?a1300 fother14.. gob1542 mint1579 king's ransomc1590 abomination1604 coda1680 a pretty (also fine, fair, etc.) penny1710 plunk1767 big money1824 pot1856 big one?1863 a small fortune1874 four figures1893 poultice1902 parcel1903 bundle1905 pretty1909 real money1918 stack1919 packet1922 heavy sugar1926 motza1936 big bucks1941 bomb1958 wedge1977 megadollars1980 squillion1986 bank1995 1710 S. Centlivre Man's Bewitch'd i. i. 3 Why here may be a pretty Penny towards, if the Devil don't cross it. 1711 S. Centlivre Mar-plot i. ii. 11 I'm like to make a fine Penny on't. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia V. ix. iv. 63 If a man makes a fair penny..he has as much title to enjoy his pleasure as the Chief Justice. 1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss I. ii. i. 256 That watered-silk she had on cost a pretty penny. 1885 B. Harte Maruja i. 14 Then the Captain might still make a pretty penny on Amita. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage lxxiii. 377 It must have cost you a pretty penny. It's lucky you can afford it. 1994 Film Comments Jan.–Feb. 75/3 Jean films the boy hanging from a skyscraper; Sami later gibes that, had he fallen, Jean could make a pretty penny selling the footage. < as lemmas |
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