| 单词 | save-penny |
| 释义 | > as lemmassave-penny C1. With nouns and pronouns, forming nouns and adjectives, as save-penny, save-soul, save-stake, etc. See also save-all n., save-face n. ΚΠ 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 178 Such A Spirit were of A Save stake, if not promoting Prudence, as they call it. 1709 E. Ward Secret Hist. Clubs x. 86 The Profitable Buying in of Six-Shilling Beer, Stale-Bread, and Wheel-barrow Cheese, were the chief Toppicks of their Save-penny Discourses. 1799 E. Dubois Piece Family Biogr. III. 129 Martha was gone on a save-soul pilgrimage to a neighbouring village. 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Savelick, an excrescence from the brier, placed by boys in their coat cuffs, as a charm, to prevent a flogging. 1889 Literary World 25 Oct. 330/2 Some of our readers may be glad to know that a ‘save-time’ envelope has been invented by Messrs. G. Beeching and Son. 1947 Billboard 25 Oct. 12/1 The first half..is devoted to the top news developments—the save-grain campaign, aid to France and so on. 2003 R. E. Stipe Richer Heritage xv. 488 In the public mind the movement begins to take on a ‘save everything’ mentality. < as lemmas |
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