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单词 an old song
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an old (also a mere) song
c. In other uses, esp. in an old (also a mere) song.
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society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > small sum
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1698 England's Glory 7 The Free holders had but an old Song for their Money.
1728 Label without being Libel against Truth 38 Some Folks in Grandeur us'd to move along, Now in Thread-bare Coats are seen, not worth a Song.
1798 W. Sotheby tr. C. M. Wieland Oberon ii. xxix. 53 Oh, fly, Sir! or your life's not worth a song!
1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XVI lix. 93 The cost would be a trifle—an ‘old song’ Set to some thousands.
1854 ‘M. Harland’ Alone xxvi Some care, some responsibility—that is a mere song, though.
1879 ‘H. Stretton’ Through Needle's Eye II. 208 It was a pretty place once, but now it's hardly worth an old song.
1923 Humorist 24 Nov. 436/2 There was no very spirited bidding for this lot, which was knocked down for a mere song to a nature's gentleman in reach-me-downs.
1951 Altoona (Pa.) Mirror 31 Jan. 2/2 A..mule he bought one day at a street sale for a mere song.
2016 Tampa Bay (Florida) Times (Nexis) 3 Jan. (Floridian section) 3 By Florida standards, some might call it a creek, a minor waterway, hardly worth a song.
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