| 单词 | get-penny |
| 释义 | > as lemmasget-penny get-penny n. now rare something which brings in money (cf. catchpenny n. and adj.).Apparently disused in the 19th cent.; revived in the 20th cent. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun] > source of profit get-penny1605 Diana1640 money-spinner1825 money-maker1850 oof-bird1888 grosser1959 port wages1992 1605 G. Chapman et al. Eastward Hoe iv. sig. G2v Thy deeds plaid i'thy life time, by the best companies of Actors, and be call'd their Get-peny. 1608 T. Middleton Your Fiue Gallants sig. A4v That face will get money ifaith, twill bee a get peny I warrant you. 1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre v. i. 69 in Wks. II The Gunpowder-plot, there was a get-penny! I haue presented that to an eighteene, or twenty pence audience, nine times in an afternoone. 1684 G. S. Anglorum Speculum 481 ‘London Lick penny’..there is no less Truth in this ‘London Get penny’. 1756 Crit. Rev. June 484 The three and six-penny book..is the meanest and most unmannerly get-penny that ever was exhibited. 1975 R. Davies World of Wonders (1977) ii. v. 199 The Master 's been a mighty get-penny for Sir John. 1997 G. K. Hunter Eng. Drama 1586–1642 vi. 260 The first part of If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody was one of the most successful plays of the period... It was perhaps some premonitary sense of its power as a get-penny that persuaded Heywood to write. < as lemmas |
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