单词 | purse and person |
释义 | > as lemmaspurse and (also or) person P3. purse and (also or) person: one's financial means and oneself. ΚΠ 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 44 Thee yoonger Troians..Round to me dyd cluster, with purse and person. 1653 J. Taylor Certain Trav. Uncertain Journey 16 Undeserv'd, unlook'd for, and unthought From them my purse and person both were fraught. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. xviii. 85 If I can be of service to him, tell him he may command me, either in purse or person. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby x. 90 You feel so keenly in your own purse and person the consequences of inattention to business. 1866 Chambers's Jrnl. 261 Where the offender could not pay in purse, he had to pay in person. 1925 Woman's World (Chicago) Apr. 65/1 (advt.) A wide variety of fabrics..in the latest New York Styles to suit every purse and person. 1984 Jrnl. Substance Abuse Treatm. 2 48/1 The subscriber, through the pernicious habit of drinking, has greatly hurt himself in purse and person, and rendered himself odious to all. < as lemmas |
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