| 单词 | yellow dirt |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyellow dirt yellow dirt n. now rare gold.Originally used to refer slightingly or contemptuously to wealth (cf. gold n.1 2a) as being of little or no real value (with implied condemnation of greed or materialism); later also used humorously in the context of prospecting for gold. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > other mediums of exchange > [noun] > uncoined metal as medium of exchange > gold goldeOE mine1610 yellow dirt1628 1628 R. Gomersall Tragedie of Lodovick Sforza iv. i. 42 What is Gold but yellow durt? 1703 Divine Soul 101 Dig on, dig on, at last you'll make your Grave in the bottomless Pit, where your yellow Dirt will be chang'd into blewish flames of stinking Sulphur. 1753 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. 24 Nov. 49 Convenience stamped an imaginary value upon yellow Dirt. 1846 World of Fashion Oct. 224/2 In this enlightened age we may affect to speak scornfully of the world's ‘yellow dirt’, and rail at the covetousness of those beings who make it their chief idol. 1898 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Sentinel 28 Jan. They..will prospect along the route to the Copper river, and when they find the yellow dirt in paying quantities they will locate. 1900 Glasgow Herald 17 Feb. 8/2 Many a good fellow, from lack of just a modicum of the poetically-despised ‘yellow dirt’, has lost courage and died in despair. 1947 Evening Sun (Hanover, Pa.) 28 Apr. 8/2 [She] began life in a two-room log cabin, the daughter of a prospector whose pickax hit yellow dirt in Colorado. < as lemmas |
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