英语词汇“how are you off for soap?”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

c. In the slang phrase, how are you off for soap? The early examples afford no clue as to the origin of the expression, and their date is against the view that the sense of ‘money’ (see below) was intended.

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1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. iv. 42 A young lady..looked at me very hard and said, ‘Well, Reefer, how are you off for soap?’

1843 W. M. Thackeray Ravenswing viii, in Fraser's Mag. Sept. 331/1 A notorious scoundrel in the Fleet, who invented the Panama Swindle, the Pontine marshes' swindle, the soap swindle—how are you off for soapnow, Mr. W-lk-r?

1886 S. Baring-Gould Court Royal I. ii. 20 They..put their heads into his shop, and asked how he was off for soap.

单词	how are you off for soap?
释义	> as lemmas how are you off for soap? c. In the slang phrase, how are you off for soap? The early examples afford no clue as to the origin of the expression, and their date is against the view that the sense of ‘money’ (see below) was intended. ΚΠ 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. iv. 42 A young lady..looked at me very hard and said, ‘Well, Reefer, how are you off for soap?’ 1843 W. M. Thackeray Ravenswing viii, in Fraser's Mag. Sept. 331/1 A notorious scoundrel in the Fleet, who invented the Panama Swindle, the Pontine marshes' swindle, the soap swindle—how are you off for soapnow, Mr. W-lk-r? 1886 S. Baring-Gould Court Royal I. ii. 20 They..put their heads into his shop, and asked how he was off for soap. extracted from soapn.¹ < as lemmas
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