| 单词 | devil's mint |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdevil's mint devil's mint n. now rare (chiefly in extended metaphors) an immoral source of money; (more generally) any source of abundant evil (cf. mint n.1 3). ΚΠ 1680 M. Godwyn Negro's & Indians Advocate i. 41 Both without doubt contrived in Hell, receiving their first impressions in no other than the Devil's Mint, purposely designed for the murthering of Souls. 1776 B. Victor Orig. Lett., Dramatic Pieces & Poems II. 171 These [coins] were all coined in the devil's mint! a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Devil's-mint, an inexhaustible abundance and succession of things hurtful or offensive, as if the devil himself were at work coining them. 1834 T. Hood Tylney Hall (1835) xviii. 127 Partly in doubt whether he ought to accept it [sc. the coin] from a distressed gentlewoman, and partly in fear that the money was from the Devil's mint, and would burn a hole in his pocket. 1921 J. L. C. Garnett Temple Torches 17 The devil's mint where the billions grow From blood and wound, disgrace and woe,—Have we taught to our bad neighbor. 1930 Times 24 July 9/2 The doctrine..of trying to get peace by preparing for war is a lie coined in the Devil's mint. < as lemmas |
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