英语词汇“on the nut”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. The amount of money required for a venture; set-up or overhead costs. Originally in on the nut: out of pocket.

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1909 W. Irwin Confessions Con Man 81 First, they took out the ‘nut’. That is the general term, among gamblers for the expense account.

1912 A. H. Lewis Apaches N.Y. 201 Every day I'm open puts me fifty dollars on th' nut.

1914 L. E. Jackson & C. R. Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 62 Nut,..used by grafters whose operations involve an investment to signify an expense incurred in connection with a venture.

1933 Sun (Baltimore) 28 Jan. 16/4 The difficulty of ‘making the nut’, the term applied to accumulating the rental charge due each night to the owner of the cab.

1936 Amer. Speech 11 219 He [sc. the producer] decides that in order to open the show a certain amount of money will be necessary. This amount is the production nut.

1972 Publishers Weekly 14 Feb. 60/1 He submitted a strong script that led Fox to substitute color film and wide screen for black-and-white and the conventional small-screen ratio, and to raise the nut to $400,000.

1998 Wired Apr. 156/1 Netscape..wasn't selling enough software to big corporate customers to make the nut.

单词	on the nut
释义	> as lemmas on the nut a. The amount of money required for a venture; set-up or overhead costs. Originally in on the nut: out of pocket. ΚΠ 1909 W. Irwin Confessions Con Man 81 First, they took out the ‘nut’. That is the general term, among gamblers for the expense account. 1912 A. H. Lewis Apaches N.Y. 201 Every day I'm open puts me fifty dollars on th' nut. 1914 L. E. Jackson & C. R. Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 62 Nut,..used by grafters whose operations involve an investment to signify an expense incurred in connection with a venture. 1933 Sun (Baltimore) 28 Jan. 16/4 The difficulty of ‘making the nut’, the term applied to accumulating the rental charge due each night to the owner of the cab. 1936 Amer. Speech 11 219 He [sc. the producer] decides that in order to open the show a certain amount of money will be necessary. This amount is the production nut. 1972 Publishers Weekly 14 Feb. 60/1 He submitted a strong script that led Fox to substitute color film and wide screen for black-and-white and the conventional small-screen ratio, and to raise the nut to $400,000. 1998 Wired Apr. 156/1 Netscape..wasn't selling enough software to big corporate customers to make the nut. extracted from nutn.¹adj.² < as lemmas
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