| 单词 | to burn a hole in one's pocket |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto burn a hole in one's pocket 16. To make (a mark) on or in, (a hole) in or through, anything, by burning. Also figurative to make (a recollection, a conviction) indelible in a person's mind. to burn in: to render indelible (the painting upon pottery, etc.) by exposure to fire. to burn a hole in one's pocket. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > effect produced on emotions > have an effect on [verb (transitive)] > cause to have effect on set971 incuss1527 incute1542 infix1542 strike1615 burna1840 the world > matter > colour > colouring > painting > paint [verb (transitive)] > render indelible burna1840 society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > waste of money or extravagance > spend money wastefully or extravagantly [verb (intransitive)] > be impatient to spend money money burns (a hole) (in) one's pocket1702 to burn a hole in one's pocketa1840 society > communication > indication > marking > marking to identify > be distinctive mark on [verb (transitive)] > put identifying mark on > make (a mark) on or in anything by burning burna1840 a1840 Moore in Sheridaniana 61 They [some verses] bear, burnt into every line, the marks of personal feeling. 1858 A. Trollope Three Clerks II. ix. 198 How was she to give him the purse? It was burning a hole in her pocket till she could do so. 1860 P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 172 A power which..burnt-in the image of each in his remembrance. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. xvii. 296 Her brother's words..had burnt themselves into her memory. c1865 J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 389/1 They are ‘burnt in’ on the surface of the ware. 1883 Harper's Mag. Mar. 538/1 Cash burning holes in our pockets. < as lemmas |
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