| 单词 | percentage man |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspercentage man percentage man n. (a) a person who calculates or is interested in percentages, esp. as a way of predicting odds; (b) U.S. colloquial. rare a news photographer who takes a large number of photographs in the hope that some will be saleable; (c) a person who takes a profit in the form of a percentage. ΚΠ 1876 N.Y. Times 20 Sept. 4/6 A Tilden evening paper names six States which, it says, are to hold election on the second Tuesday of October. If its percentage man will strike off fifty per cent of those it names and add one State it does not name, it will be correct. 1948 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. II. 766 Percentage man. A news photographer who makes a large number of exposures, hoping that chance will give him a few good pictures. 1969 ‘R. Crawford’ Cockleburr i. vii. 71 I'm a percentage man... He's paying me ten per cent to get him clear with the money. 1988 Herald (Australia) (Nexis) 8 Aug. Tymms has always been a percentage man. He's not a punting bookmaker..preferring to work his book conservatively. 1993 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) 24 Feb. 4 No self-respecting pop group can be without a percentage man, sorry, manager. < as lemmas |
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