| 单词 | an old song |
| 释义 | > as lemmasan old (also a mere) song c. In other uses, esp. in an old (also a mere) song. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > small sum parcelc1400 plack1530 dodkinc1555 triflec1595 denier1597 driblet1659 song1698 Flanders-fortune1699 pin money1702 doit1728 drab1828 picayune1838 sprat1883 shoestring1904 peanut1910 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. < as lemmas |
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