| 单词 | powder and shot |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspowder and shot powder and shot n. the materials expended in warfare; (chiefly figurative) the cost or effort expended for some result. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > effort expended for some result powder and shot1579 1579 S. Gosson Apol. Schoole of Abuse in Ephemerides Phialo f. 92 When I spare not to greete them with poulder & shot, answeares mee againe with a false fire. 1604 S. Hieron Preachers Plea in Wks. (1620) I. 484 [To] spend all their powder and shot to the beating downe of that, which I hope they shal neuer bee able to ouerthrow. 1776 S. Foote Bankrupt ii. 36 Meagre mechanicks? fellows not worth powder and shot. 1845 B. Disraeli Sybil I. i. iv. 60 ‘I have great faith in your canvassing,..but still, at the same time, the powder and shot—’ ‘Are essential’, said Lady Marney, ‘I know it, in these corrupt days’. 1889 V. Horsley in S. Paget Sir Victor Horsley (1919) 86 He anonymously or onymously is not worth powder and shot. 1978 P. G. Winslow Coppergold 67 He could be of no practical use, and she was not a woman to waste her powder and shot. 2005 Sunday Star-Times (Auckland) (Nexis) 17 Apr. 9 However, Gray knows his biggest problem could be determining ‘whether any of the respondents are worth powder and shot’—whether they have the money to pay. < as lemmas |
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