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单词 to make a saver
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to make (a person) a saver
a. A person who neither wins nor loses; (Gambling) a person who saves his or her stake but makes no profit. Also in to make (a person) a saver: to insure against or compensate for a loss. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [noun] > one who escapes > one who escapes loss, but without gain
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1591 J. Florio Second Frutes 71 S. What can I doe withall? I can not mend it. A. If I thought one hand would make me a sauer, I would play.
a1627 T. Middleton No Wit (1657) ii. 58 You'd need have a clear way, because y'are a bad pricker. Mrs Low. Yet if my Bowl take bank, I shall go nigh To make my self a saver.
1668 J. Howe Blessednesse of Righteous xx. 388 Heaven were a poor Heaven, if it would not make us savers.
1691 J. Dryden King Arthur ii. 18 He puts the gain of Britain in a Scale, Which weighing with the loss of Emmeline, He thinks he's scarce a Saver.
a1700 C. Sedley Poems in Wks. (1722) I. 46 We'll Game and give off Savers too.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Saver,..2. One who escapes loss, though without gain.
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