| 单词 | your money or your life |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyour money or your life (g) your money or your life: a formula attributed to highwaymen, etc., used as a threat to force a person to hand over money. Now historical or allusively. ΚΠ 1798 A. Plumptre tr. A. von Kotzebue Natural Son iii. ii. 50 (The Baron moves onward, Frederick rushes wildly with his drawn sword upon the Baron and collars him.) Your money or your life! 1838 D. Jerrold Men of Char. (1851) 320 The highway laconism of ‘your money or your life!’ 1841 F. A. Burney Jrnl. 23 Feb. (1926) 321 Mr. Dixon attempted expostulation, upon which the Highwayman drew out a Pistol,..exclaiming, with an oath, ‘Your money or your life!’ 1864 J. Payn Lost Sir Massingberd II. xiii. 212 A pistol, was protruded into the carriage. ‘Your money or your life!..,’ said a rough voice. 1915 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics VIII. 339/2 Wingate suggests as an epitome of Mahdīism the sentence ‘Your money or your life.’ 1992 M. Jefferson Criminal Law (BNC) 318 Getting property by threatening immediate force (e.g., ‘your money or your life’) may be both blackmail and robbery. < as lemmas |
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