| 单词 | twenty to one |
| 释义 | > as lemmastwenty to one e. †twenty in the hundred, a 20 per cent. rate of interest on loans; transferred a usurer. twenty to one, twenty chances to one; an expression of very strong probability. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > one who lends money > at interest ten tribes971 gavellerc1200 usurerc1290 Caorsin1303 collybistc1380 ockererc1390 fenerator1447 usuraryc1450 usurier1480 user1566 fulker1568 money-monger1571 moneylender1598 twenty in the hundred1602 Jew's trump1605 putter-outa1616 money-bawd1631 chevisancer1633 use-man1633 Lombardeer1645 money-banker1677 bummaree1738 mahajan1852 sixty per cent1853 gombeen-man1862 1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iii. iv. sig. Fv Thou art an honest Twentie i'the hundred. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) i. i. 72 Twenty to one then, he is ship'd already. View more context for this quotation 1916 N.E.D. at Twenty Mod. Ellington won the Derby in 1856 at 20 to 1. < as lemmas |
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