| 单词 | poor man's diggings |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspoor man's diggings poor man's diggings n. (also occasionally poor man's digging) Mining colloquial (originally Australian) gold-bearing land which can be mined without substantial capital outlay, or on which large-scale commercial mining is not considered profitable, and which is thus available to be mined by individuals. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > [noun] > of alluvial gold pocket1848 poor man's diggings1852 lead1855 1852 Bathurst (New S. Wales) Free Press 30 Oct. 3/2 [Tambaroora] These are the best poor man's diggings yet opened up. 1855 W. Howitt Land, Labour & Gold II. 226 You now hear Bendigo called the Poor Man's Digging. 1865 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) No. 85. 3 They all described [the claims] as a ‘good poor man's diggings’. 1875 Chicago Tribune 14 Oct. 7/3 If it did pay, it would be what is called poor man's diggings, for it was no place where capital could be successfully employed. 1876 R. I. Dodge Black Hills 109 It has passed into a proverb that ‘placer’ mining is the poor man's diggings, while ‘quartz’ mining is only for the rich. 1924 Bedford (Pa.) Gaz. 30 May 6/3 ‘I've heard great yarns about Deadwood Gulch.’ ‘They overplay it... The gulch is certainly the poor man's diggings.’ 1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 56 Poor man's diggings, alluvial gold deposits, i.e., gold which a poor man can work, contrasting with reef-gold which requires capital to develop. 1998 S. Lawrence in A. B. Knapp et al. Social Approaches Industr. Past iii. 46 Dolly's Creek..was described at the time as a poor man's diggings. < as lemmas |
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