英语词汇“where there's muck, there's brass”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P2. Chiefly English regional (northern). where there's muck, there's brass and variants: dirty or unpleasant activities can be lucrative.In this proverbial phrase, reference may be intended to any of a variety of senses of muck, depending on context.

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1678 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Prov. (ed. 2) 179 Muck and money go together.]

1774 J. Bennet Poems Several Occasions 116 Alluding to a vulgar proverb, ‘Where there's muck there's money.’

1855 H. G. Bohn Handbk. Prov. 564 Where there is muck there is money.

1943 J. W. Day Farming Adventure xii. 142 ‘Where there's muck there's money’ is as true now as then. But farms today lack the muck.

1967 Punch 13 Sept. 396 ‘Where there's muck there's brass!’ synopsised for many a North-country businessman the value of dirt in the profit-making process.

1989 J. Titford Titford Family 1547–1947 142 Where there's muck, there's brass, as the saying goes—and there was plenty of brass around during the early years of the Industrial Revolution.

单词	where there's muck, there's brass
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