英语词汇“to live on the smell of an oil rag”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P15. colloquial (chiefly New Zealand, Australian, South African, and Irish English). to live on the smell of an oil (also oily) rag and variants: to barely subsist, to live or exist on next to nothing; to live or eat frugally.

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1851 Ainsworth's Mag. 20 431 A celebrated general of by-gone days expected a Hungarian hussar to live on the smell of an oil-rag.

1867 J. T. Thomson Rambles with Philosopher 133 He himself had lived on the odour of an oiled rag for six weeks.

1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 156 He'd live on the smell of an oil-rag.

1945 R. Hargreaves Enemy at Gate 265 The Japanese..had been reared, so to speak, to live on the smell of an oily rag—with the peace-time diet of many of the poorest of them consisting of nothing more than millet seed.

1973 P. Newton Big Country of South Island (1977) 87 They [sc. mules] can live on the smell of an oily rag..and are as tough as old boots.

1994 Weekly Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) (Electronic ed.) 15 July Often their theatres live on the smell of an oil rag and this turns administrators into gamblers.

单词	to live on the smell of an oil rag
释义	> as lemmas to live on the smell of an oil (also oily) rag P15. colloquial (chiefly New Zealand, Australian, South African, and Irish English). to live on the smell of an oil (also oily) rag and variants: to barely subsist, to live or exist on next to nothing; to live or eat frugally. ΚΠ 1851 Ainsworth's Mag. 20 431 A celebrated general of by-gone days expected a Hungarian hussar to live on the smell of an oil-rag. 1867 J. T. Thomson Rambles with Philosopher 133 He himself had lived on the odour of an oiled rag for six weeks. 1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 156 He'd live on the smell of an oil-rag. 1945 R. Hargreaves Enemy at Gate 265 The Japanese..had been reared, so to speak, to live on the smell of an oily rag—with the peace-time diet of many of the poorest of them consisting of nothing more than millet seed. 1973 P. Newton Big Country of South Island (1977) 87 They [sc. mules] can live on the smell of an oily rag..and are as tough as old boots. 1994 Weekly Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg) (Electronic ed.) 15 July Often their theatres live on the smell of an oil rag and this turns administrators into gamblers. extracted from livev.¹ < as lemmas
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