| 单词 | the berries |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe berries c. slang (U.S.). A dollar; also (in U.K.), a pound. Usually in plural. Hence the berries: an excellent person or thing; ‘the cat's whiskers’. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > excellent person or thing carbunclea1350 swanc1386 phoenixc1400 diamondc1440 broocha1464 surmounterc1500 sovereign?a1513 primrose peerless1523 superlative1577 transcendent1593 Arabian birda1616 crack1637 first rate1681 peach1710 phoenicle1711 admiration1717 spanker1751 first-raterc1760 no slouch of1767 nailer1806 tip-topper1822 ripper1825 ripstaver1828 apotheosis1832 clinker1836 clipper1836 bird1839 keener1839 ripsnorter1840 beater1845 firecracker1845 pumpkin1845 screamer1846 stunner1847 bottler1855 beaut1866 bobby-dazzler1866 one out of the box1867 stem-winder1875 corker1877 trimmer1878 hot stuff1884 daisy1886 jim-dandy1887 cracker1891 jim-hickey1895 peacherino1896 pippin1897 alpha plus1898 peacherine1900 pip1900 humdinger1905 bosker1906 hummer1907 good egg1914 superstar1914 the berries1918 bee's knee1923 the cat's whiskers1923 smash1923 smash hit1923 brahma1925 dilly1935 piss-cutter1935 killer1937 killer-diller1938 a hard act to follow1942 peacheroo1942 bitch1946 brammerc1950 hot shit1960 Tiffany1973 bollocks1981 society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > specific sums of money > a pound li.c1450 quid1661 strike1680 note1775 scrieve1821 nicker1871 saucepan lid1896 bar1911 berry1918 smacker1920 thick 'un1968 sob1970 society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > specific sums of money > a dollar skin1834 rock1837 buck1856 scad1856 simoleon1881 plunk1885 clam1886 slug1887 bone1889 plunker1890 ace1900 sinker1900 Oxford1902 caser1907 iron man1907 man1910 berry1918 fish1920 smacker1920 Oxford scholar1937 loonie1987 1918 H. C. Witwer From Baseball to Boches iv. ii. 147 When..I go back to baseball, I can drag down six thousand berries a year. 1920 ‘B. L. Standish’ Man on First 127 It don't take the shine off your little performance. You were there with the berries. 1922 S. Lewis Babbitt vii. 103 A fellow that..pulls down fifteen thousand berries a year! 1925 H. L. Foster Trop. Tramp with Tourists 300 You think you're the berries, don't you? Well, you might have been once, but you're a flat-tire these days! 1926 S.P.E. Tract (Soc. for Pure Eng.) No. XXIV. 120 That's the berries, that's just right. 1934 Humorist 26 May 482/1 An attachment worth ten thousand berries in the open market. 1936 J. Dos Passos Big Money 43 He had what was left of the three hundred berries Hedwig coughed up. 1943 W. Lewis Let. 9 Nov. (1963) 369 No intelligent book could get accepted by a N.Y. publisher, except perhaps a little publisher, who would give you a maximum of a thousand berries. < as lemmas |
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