| 单词 | land-office business |
| 释义 | > as lemmasland-office business land-office business n. a thriving business, like that done in a land-office in boom times; a ‘roaring trade’. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > [noun] > thriving trade land-office business1839 1839 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 2 Apr. 2/3 A practical printer..could do a land-office business here. 1877 ‘M. Twain’ in Atlantic Monthly Nov. 590/1 Naturally, the prophets of Baal took all the trade. Isaac..went a-prophesying around, letting on to be doing a land-office business, but 't wa'n't any use. 1882 Rep. Precious Metals (U.S. Bureau of Mint) 153 It is owned by the Union Mill and Mining Company, which once did a land-office business in ore crushing. 1935 M. M. Atwater Murder in Midsummer v. 51 He was doing a land-office business in gas and pop and candy. 1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) xi. 203 American students..used to do a land-office business in contraband cigarettes. 1972 New York 12 June 35/2 Allen & Co...was doing a land-office business touting Planet Oil. < as lemmas |
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