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单词 king's bargain
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king's bargain
king's bargain n. Obsolete rare a competent or hard-working sailor; also more fully king's good bargain (cf. king's bad bargain n.).
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society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > type of soldier generally > [noun] > malingerer or shirker
malingerer1785
skulker1785
king's bargain1867
carpet soldier1869
chocolate-cream soldier1894
chocolate soldier1895
snow-bird1905
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. King's bargain, Good or Bad; said of a seaman according to his activity and merit, or sloth and demerit.
a1891 H. Melville Billy Budd (1962) xviii. 95 Captain Vere..deemed Billy Budd to be what in the naval parlance of the time was called a ‘King's bargain’: that is to say, for His Britannic Majesty's navy a capital investment at small outlay or none at all.
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