| 单词 | easy money |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseasy money a. That is obtained with ease, with little effort or sacrifice. easy money: money obtained without effort, and, often, illegally; also with an amount specified ( easy dollar, etc.) (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > [noun] > money acquired easily easy money1896 money for jam (also for old rope, etc.)1919 pennies from heaven1936 earner1970 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 90 The Swain..Receives his easy Food from Nature's Hand. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Georgics iv. 143 A fault which easy Pardon might receive, Were Lovers Judges. 1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 766 Disease or comes not, or finds easy cure. View more context for this quotation 1856 G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay (1876) II. xiv. 463 He obtained an easy pardon. 1882 Sydney Slang Dict. 5/1 The money earned by a prostitute is said to be ‘honest’, as distinguished from that earned by a thief. Probably from the story of the converted burglar who determined to sin no more himself and who lectured against dishonesty, but sent his wife out every night to earn an honest shilling. ‘Easy shilling’ is synonymous in the foregoing sense. 1896 G. Ade Artie x. 79 I guess it's easy money too from the way he lets go of it. 1909 ‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny vi. 88 The boarding-houses were corralling the easy dollars of the gamesome lawmakers. 1914 G. Atherton Perch of Devil i. i. 15 It may be this..spirit that inspires the midnight burglar.., not merely the desire for ‘easy money’. 1923 P. G. Wodehouse Adventures of Sally vi. 79 If you want to make a little easy money, you go and bet somebody ten seeds that I'm going to interrupt it again. 1935 Discovery Feb. 50/1 It is not to be assumed..that fox farming is a short cut to easy money. 1956 ‘J. Wyndham’ Seeds of Time 100 To enable quick-turnover spivs to make easy money out of suckers. 1967 Observer 26 Mar. 9 Here the pursuit of happiness fuses with the pursuit of the easy dollar. < as lemmas |
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