英语词汇“to stick to a person's fingers”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P2. to stick to a person's fingers and variants: (of money or property) to come into a person's possession by dishonest or dubious means. [Compare Italian appiccarsi alle unghie , lit. ‘to stick itself to the fingernails, to get stuck to the fingernails’ (1562 in the passage translated in quot. 1573).]

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (intransitive)] > be dishonestly retained

to stick to a person's fingers1573

1573 G. Gascoigne tr. L. Ariosto Supposes iii. iv, in Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 31 It is a thing almost vnpossible for a man nowe a daies to handle money but the metall will sticke on his fingers [It. ch'a l'unghie tal hor non ti si appicchino].

1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas sig. H.iiii When Siluer sticks not on the Tellers fingers.

1660 Marquis of Worcester in H. Dircks Life 2nd Marquis of Worcester (1865) xiv. 229 Nothing hath stuck to my fingers, in order to benefit or self-interest.

1762 Ann. Reg. 1761 i. 234/1 The people immediately cleared it of all the moveables, such as the victuals, cloths, plates, dishes, &c. and, in short, every thing that could stick to their fingers.

1772 W. Cole Let. 9 July in H. Walpole Corr. (1937) I. 268 They deserved to be so cheated..for trusting him to finger any part of their money, which would naturally stick to his fingers like bird-lime.

1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. vii. xv. 212 Probably something still stuck by the fingers.

1860 J. L. Motley Hist. United Netherlands II. x. 87 He was..a most infamous peculator. One-third of the money sent by the Queen for the soldiers stuck in his fingers.

1920 C. Sandburg Smoke & Steel 45 Nothin' ever sticks to my fingers, nah, nah, nothin' like that.

1949 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 29 483 The confiscated wealth and property of all its prisoners ultimately..came by way of the crown fiscal in the first instance, though woe betide this official if any of the money stuck to his fingers.

2007 Washington Post (Nexis) 25 Dec. a25 Spiro T. Agnew..had to resign as U.S. vice president because of money that stuck to his fingers while he was governor of Maryland.

单词	to stick to a person's fingers
释义	> as lemmas to stick to a person's fingers P2. to stick to a person's fingers and variants: (of money or property) to come into a person's possession by dishonest or dubious means. [Compare Italian appiccarsi alle unghie , lit. ‘to stick itself to the fingernails, to get stuck to the fingernails’ (1562 in the passage translated in quot. 1573).] ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > get or make money [verb (intransitive)] > be dishonestly retained to stick to a person's fingers1573 1573 G. Gascoigne tr. L. Ariosto Supposes iii. iv, in Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 31 It is a thing almost vnpossible for a man nowe a daies to handle money but the metall will sticke on his fingers [It. ch'a l'unghie tal hor non ti si appicchino]. 1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas sig. H.iiii When Siluer sticks not on the Tellers fingers. 1660 Marquis of Worcester in H. Dircks Life 2nd Marquis of Worcester (1865) xiv. 229 Nothing hath stuck to my fingers, in order to benefit or self-interest. 1762 Ann. Reg. 1761 i. 234/1 The people immediately cleared it of all the moveables, such as the victuals, cloths, plates, dishes, &c. and, in short, every thing that could stick to their fingers. 1772 W. Cole Let. 9 July in H. Walpole Corr. (1937) I. 268 They deserved to be so cheated..for trusting him to finger any part of their money, which would naturally stick to his fingers like bird-lime. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. vii. xv. 212 Probably something still stuck by the fingers. 1860 J. L. Motley Hist. United Netherlands II. x. 87 He was..a most infamous peculator. One-third of the money sent by the Queen for the soldiers stuck in his fingers. 1920 C. Sandburg Smoke & Steel 45 Nothin' ever sticks to my fingers, nah, nah, nothin' like that. 1949 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 29 483 The confiscated wealth and property of all its prisoners ultimately..came by way of the crown fiscal in the first instance, though woe betide this official if any of the money stuck to his fingers. 2007 Washington Post (Nexis) 25 Dec. a25 Spiro T. Agnew..had to resign as U.S. vice president because of money that stuck to his fingers while he was governor of Maryland. extracted from stickv.¹ < as lemmas
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