| 释义 |
grow on trees [usually with negative] informal Be plentiful or easily obtained: jobs don’t grow on trees...- That party thinks that money just grows on trees and is there for the picking.
- Money doesn't grow on trees, and neither does happiness or anything else worth having.
- For four nights, every middle-class family in town forsook watching TV sitcoms to see the fireworks, and suddenly, we lived in a city where public transportation seemed to grow on trees.
See parent entry: grow |