英语词汇“sawbuck”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

sawbuck

/ˈsɔːbʌk

noun North American

1A sawhorse.I've been meaning to make a sawbuck for over a year.

2 informal A $10 note.She's a 9-year-old fashion junkie, and, on this particular Saturday, like most, she's been set loose in the mall with a sawbuck in her hot little hand....

She started out with ten dollars and after roughly 2 1/2 hours of playing time and lots of winning she had turned that sawbuck into $12,000.
I don't have an escrow account for taxes because my taxes are ruinously expensive, and I'd prefer to park the money someplace where it can produce a small brood of sawbucks.

By association of the X-shaped ends of a sawhorse with the Roman numeral X (= 10)

Origin

Mid 19th century: from Dutch zaagbok, from zaag 'saw' + bok 'vaulting horse'.

单词	sawbuck
释义	sawbuck /ˈsɔːbʌk / noun North American 1A sawhorse.I've been meaning to make a sawbuck for over a year. 2 informal A $10 note.She's a 9-year-old fashion junkie, and, on this particular Saturday, like most, she's been set loose in the mall with a sawbuck in her hot little hand.... She started out with ten dollars and after roughly 2 1/2 hours of playing time and lots of winning she had turned that sawbuck into $12,000. I don't have an escrow account for taxes because my taxes are ruinously expensive, and I'd prefer to park the money someplace where it can produce a small brood of sawbucks. By association of the X-shaped ends of a sawhorse with the Roman numeral X (= 10) Origin Mid 19th century: from Dutch zaagbok, from zaag 'saw' + bok 'vaulting horse'.
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