英语词汇“to do a foreigner”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

4. slang (chiefly British). Something done or made at work by an employee purely for his or her own private benefit; a piece of paid work not declared to the relevant authorities. Frequently in to do a foreigner.

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society > occupation and work > work > product of work > [noun] > done purely for private benefit

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1914 Truth (Melbourne) 29 Aug. 1/5 The joke going around Newport is that railway workshops men will be given an extra shilling a day in the Expeditionary Force, because some of them are particularly good on ‘foreigners’ (workshops slang for private work done in Government time).

1943 J. L. Hunt & A. G. Pringle Service Slang 33 Such articles [as models of aircraft], made in the ‘firm's’ time and with the ‘Company's’ material, are called ‘foreigners’, as they are outside the normal work done by the employee or airman or soldier.

1974 P. Wright Lang. Brit. Industry iii. 34 The term, now rapidly gaining ground, e.g. among decorators,..doing a foreigner..means working privately, unknown to the Inland Revenue, to supplement one's regular wage.

1983 A. Bleasdale Shop thy Neighbour xi. 111 We're both gettin' followed, for all we know, we're both goin' t'get prosecuted f'doin' a foreigner while we're on the dole.

2020 @Brian_ban 23 July in twitter.com (accessed 12 May 2021) My mate..could have put up better scaffolding for £100 doing a foreigner. Just saying.

单词	to do a foreigner
释义	> as lemmas to do a foreigner 4. slang (chiefly British). Something done or made at work by an employee purely for his or her own private benefit; a piece of paid work not declared to the relevant authorities. Frequently in to do a foreigner. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > product of work > [noun] > done purely for private benefit foreigner1914 1914 Truth (Melbourne) 29 Aug. 1/5 The joke going around Newport is that railway workshops men will be given an extra shilling a day in the Expeditionary Force, because some of them are particularly good on ‘foreigners’ (workshops slang for private work done in Government time). 1943 J. L. Hunt & A. G. Pringle Service Slang 33 Such articles [as models of aircraft], made in the ‘firm's’ time and with the ‘Company's’ material, are called ‘foreigners’, as they are outside the normal work done by the employee or airman or soldier. 1974 P. Wright Lang. Brit. Industry iii. 34 The term, now rapidly gaining ground, e.g. among decorators,..doing a foreigner..means working privately, unknown to the Inland Revenue, to supplement one's regular wage. 1983 A. Bleasdale Shop thy Neighbour xi. 111 We're both gettin' followed, for all we know, we're both goin' t'get prosecuted f'doin' a foreigner while we're on the dole. 2020 @Brian_ban 23 July in twitter.com (accessed 12 May 2021) My mate..could have put up better scaffolding for £100 doing a foreigner. Just saying. extracted from foreignern. < as lemmas
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