| 释义 |
more than your job's worth it's more than my job's worthWhat you are requesting is not worth the risk of losing my job. Primarily heard in UK, Australia. Look, I wish I could pull some strings to get you a job here, but it's more than my job's worth.See also: more, worthmore than your job's worth not worth risking your job for. This phrase has given rise to the term Jobsworth , which is applied to the kind of person, usually a minor official, who says ‘it's more than my job's worth’ as a way of justifying an insistence on petty rules, even at the expense of common sense.See also: more, worthmore than your ˈjob’s worth (to do something) (British English, spoken) not worth doing because it is against the rules or because it might cause you to lose your job: I’m afraid I can’t do that. It would be more than my job’s worth.See also: more, worth |