| 单词 | not to get any change out of |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnot to get any (or much) change out of (a person or situation) e. slang. not to get any (or much) change out of (a person or situation): to get little or no result, return, or satisfaction from (a person or situation); to fail to get the better of (a person). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail in [verb (transitive)] > fail to accomplish anything or much to make much (also little, something, nothing, etc.) of1637 not to get any (or much) change out of (a person or situation)1860 1860 I. Dutton Woman's Temptation I. xxi. 309 To use one of your expressions, ‘she gets no change out of it.’ 1864 A. Trollope Small House at Allington II. xxx. 312 ‘That's a bitter old lady.’..‘There ain't none of 'em get much change out of Mrs. Crump.’ 1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere I. i. vi. 140 I just love..to hear her instructing other people in their own particular trades. She didn't get much change out of him. 1910 J. Buchan Prester John xii. 209 Still I said nothing. If the man had come to mock me, he would get no change out of David Crawford. 1954 J. Trench Dishonoured Bones ii. 62 She didn't get much change out of Charles. a1995 G. Jones Coll. Poems (1996) 225 He won't get any change out of us, not likely. He can go to the devil. < as lemmas |
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