| 释义 |
rue-bargain Chiefly dial.
[rue v.1]
A bargain one repents of or breaks; also, the forfeit paid for withdrawing from a bargain.
1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. IV, cclxxii, The King..could haue beene well-pleas'd To quitt, if a Rue bargaine may be put In state. 1814–in northern dial. glossaries. 1818Scott Rob Roy xxvii, He said it would cost him a guinea of rue-bargain to the man who had bought his pony, before he could get it back again. 1844Bamford Traveller 150 (E.D.D.), Give him a shilling or two for a rue-bargain. |