| 单词 | to do a roaring trade |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto do a roaring trade 6. Of trade, business, etc.: very brisk; highly successful. Now usually in to do a roaring trade. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > [adjective] > good or bad (of trade) well-traded1609 sulke1636 quicka1687 dull1705 brisk1719 roaring1731 rousing1767 slow1823 briskish1864 upwith1864 excited1878 turnaway1943 1731 E. Bockett Annot. Grub-St. Soc. 25 The cunning Jade Had presently a roaring Trade. 1755 C. Charke Narr. Life 153 But was..fully convinced, that I should carry on a roaring Trade. 1831 T. Hood My Son & Heir in Hood's Own 148 A Grazier may be losing cash, Although he drives ‘a roaring trade’. 1883 R. Gower My Reminisc. I. xviii. 364 The women who sell the papers are evidently making a roaring trade. 1925 Beaver Sept. 201/2 The auto camps doing a roaring business. 2008 Independent 28 Mar. 6/7 A couple of burger vans parked outside the school gates doing a roaring trade. < as lemmas |
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