| 单词 | in pocket |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin pocket b. in pocket: having money available; in possession of funds; having (a specified amount of) money left over or to profit. Cf. to be low in pocket at low adj. 18b. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > funds or pecuniary resources > in possession of money [phrase] in pocket1751 in cash1753 cash1940 society > authority > subjection > in or into subjection [phrase] > under control > under the personal control of in pocket1751 the world > space > distance > nearness > near by [phrase] > close to a person > in attendance at a person's handa1382 at an inch1567 at inches1567 at hand unto1613 in pocket1751 society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > getting or making money > [adverb] > profitably > having so much to profit in pocket1751 out of the red1907 in the clear1928 1751 Affecting Narr. H.M.S. Wager 154 We might indeed have starved..if Bulkeley had not happened to be somewhat in Pocket. 1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. iv. ii. 343 At the end of their peregrination, they are above an hundred crowns in pocket. 1800 R. Heber Let. 13 Oct. in Heber Lett. (1950) iv. 126 He was in pocket by our masking as Cholmondeley who was there gave him a guinea. 1846 D. Jerrold Mrs. Caudle xxx. 115 If you'd a chaise of your own..you'd be money in pocket. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch II. iii. xxiii. 24 Fred, when he had parted with his new horse for at least eighty pounds, would be fify-five pounds in pocket by the transaction. 1908 Washington Post 3 Aug. I will pay $3,000 for a propeller that will do more than this one. And I shall then still be a thousand dollars in pocket. 1963 L. Meynell Virgin Luck vi. 127 I was in pocket now. So I decided to go a bust and back a number. 1996 Independent 24 June i. 8/5 Another reason Mankash is ‘in pocket’, he says, is that he doesn't drink much. < as lemmas |
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