| 单词 | pounds, shillings, and pence |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspounds, shillings, and pence P2. pounds, shillings, and pence: (a) money, financial matters; (b) attributive monetary, financial; (in extended use) practical, matter-of-fact. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > [adjective] pecunial1516 pecuniary1612 denariate1632 pounds, shillings, and pence?1650 monetary1838 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > lack of imagination > [adjective] positive1594 literal1633 unprojecting1647 pounds, shillings, and pence?1650 matter of fact1712 unvisionary1794 unimaginative1814 literalist1838 literal-mindeda1849 visionless1856 realistic1862 terre-à-terre1888 pragmatical1896 illusionless1897 cookie cutter1922 down to earth1922 ?1650 T. Jordan Claraphil & Clarinda sig. Cv And cast Account well, which, in vulgar sence, Is to dispose your Pounds, Shillings, and Pence. 1774 G. Colman Man of Business i. 9 What! do you pretend to joke too? Pounds, shillings, and pence—you had best stick to that, old gentleman. 1829 R. Southey Sir Thomas More II. 123 Let him calculate whether he and they would have been gainers, even in this low, pounds-shillings-and-pence point of view. 1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood ix. 58 Life is pounds, shillings, and pence. 1900 Daily News 15 May 3/1 We claim to be a practical people, a pounds-shillings-and-pence people. 1943 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 27 Mar. 4/3 Mr. Churchill disagreed with a friend whom he quoted as saying that in planning for the future pounds, shillings and pence meant nothing. 1984 Guardian (Nexis) 1 Aug. The motive for the murders was money... ‘It comes down to pounds, shillings, and pence.’ 2005 Bristol Evening Post (Nexis) 21 Apr. 62 The Colt CZT..severely undercuts them in the pounds, shillings and pence department. < as lemmas |
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