英语词汇“to shake the money tree”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

2. A source of money, esp. one considered to be easily obtained, inexhaustible, or particularly profitable. Frequently in to shake the money tree and variants (cf. also money (etc.) does not grow on trees at tree n. Phrases).

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1937 N. D. Hanwell tr. Kao Miao in Pacific Affairs (1937) 10 57 The landlords and ‘rotten gentry’ look upon the office of village head as a method of ‘shaking the money tree’.

1954 Monumenta Nipponica 10 82 There is..the money tree whose branches are strings of cash, and whose fruits are ingots of gold, to obtain which it is only necessary to shake the tree.

1968 Economist 13 July 72/1 ‘Shaking the money tree’ is the name of the latest American corporate takeover game.

1972 W. Knowlton & J. L. Furth Shaking Money Tree Introd. p. xi IBM is a money tree, a great corporation that put its roots down many years ago, started growing and branching out, and has been doing so ever since.

1999 Chicago Tribune 14 Jan. 3/1 The mayor heroically shook the federal money tree then too.

单词	to shake the money tree
释义	> as lemmas to shake the money tree 2. A source of money, esp. one considered to be easily obtained, inexhaustible, or particularly profitable. Frequently in to shake the money tree and variants (cf. also money (etc.) does not grow on trees at tree n. Phrases). ΚΠ 1937 N. D. Hanwell tr. Kao Miao in Pacific Affairs (1937) 10 57 The landlords and ‘rotten gentry’ look upon the office of village head as a method of ‘shaking the money tree’. 1954 Monumenta Nipponica 10 82 There is..the money tree whose branches are strings of cash, and whose fruits are ingots of gold, to obtain which it is only necessary to shake the tree. 1968 Economist 13 July 72/1 ‘Shaking the money tree’ is the name of the latest American corporate takeover game. 1972 W. Knowlton & J. L. Furth Shaking Money Tree Introd. p. xi IBM is a money tree, a great corporation that put its roots down many years ago, started growing and branching out, and has been doing so ever since. 1999 Chicago Tribune 14 Jan. 3/1 The mayor heroically shook the federal money tree then too. extracted from money treen. < as lemmas
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