单词 | to push one's fortune |
释义 | > as lemmasto push one's (also †a) fortune P1. Originally Scottish. to push one's (also †a) fortune: to engage actively in making one's fortune; to try one's luck. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (transitive)] to push one's (also a) fortune1609 to draw down1890 to pile up the rocks1897 1609 S. Grahame Anat. Humors f. 30v Every one by degree doeth pouse his fortune. 1697 J. Dryden Ded. Georgics in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. ¶2v You push'd not your Fortune to rise in either. 1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas I. i. i. 3 It is high time for a brisk lad of seventeen, like thee, to push thy fortune in the world. 1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea I. xiii. 204 To glance at the operations of a small knot of middle-aged men who were pushing their fortunes in Paris. 1885 J. Ruskin Præterita I. v. 142 John..went soon to push his fortune in Australia. 1900 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 6 May (Mag. Suppl.) 9/5 The eldest and strongest..is gone to push his fortune. 1953 R. Pares King George III & Politicians i. 19 A friend at the Admiralty could do much to help a captain push his fortune. < as lemmas |
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