| 释义 |
skint, a. colloq.|skɪnt|
[Var. skinned ppl. a. (see sense 4 d).]
Penniless, broke.
1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 260 Skint, to be, hard up. 1935G. Ingram Cockney Cavalcade vii. 97 Edina [sic] offered him a shilling. ‘That's all right... I ain't ‘skint’ yet.’ 1955G. Freeman Liberty Man iii. iv. 158 If he had enough to pay, it would just about leave him skint. 1962New Statesman 18 May 708/3 All I want is a bike and ten pounds a week in me pocket—there's one thing I can't stand and that's being skint. 1977S. Milligan in Observer (Colour Suppl.) 6 Nov. 32/2 McGonagall..journeyed on foot (he was skint) from Dundee to Balmoral. 1981Times 27 Aug. 17/3 Are the British really as skint as we tend to make out? |