| 单词 | to pay for one's whistle |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto pay (too dear) for one's whistle (c) to pay (too dear) for one's whistle (and similar phrases), to pay much more for something than it is worth: in allusion to a story of Benjamin Franklin ( Wks. (1840) II. 182). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > buying > buy [verb (intransitive)] > buy at more than value to pay (too dear) for one's whistle1843 society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > high price or rate > [noun] > dearness > fact of being too dear over-dearness1680 to pay (too dear) for one's whistle1843 1843 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross I. vii. 139 I should not like to pay too dear for my whistle. 1851 G. Ticknor Life, Lett. & Jrnls. (1876) II. xiii. 271 Too much, he thought, for the price of such a whistle. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. v. xxxv. 29 If a man likes to do it he must pay for his whistle. < as lemmas |
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