| 单词 | a nice little earner |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa nice little earner 2. colloquial. An activity that brings in money for the person engaged in it. Frequently in a nice little earner: a means of making easy or illicit profit. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > [noun] > money acquired easily easy money1896 money for jam (also for old rope, etc.)1919 pennies from heaven1936 earner1970 society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > profit > [noun] earningeOE issuea1325 lucrec1380 lucre of gainc1386 return1419 feracityc1420 revenue1427 vantagec1430 afframing1440 revenue1440 availc1449 proventc1451 provenuec1487 rent1513 fardel1523 chevisance1535 gains1546 commodity1577 proceed1578 increasal1601 benefit1606 endowment1615 gaininga1631 superlucration1683 profit1697 bunce1706 making1837 bunt1851 plunder1851 yield1877 recovery1931 earner1970 1970 G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard 7 His earner had come on top. 1982 Observer 15 Aug. 22/7 A ‘nice little earner’ is anything that brings in easy money, often but not always criminally. 1985 Trucking Internat. May 45/1 Vernon sells it at a very low margin to keep the price down—he sees it as a service to his customers, rather than an ‘earner’ in its own right. 1987 Sunday Tel. 24 May 35/1 The family letting rooms on the quiet, or the person who has a ‘nice little earner’ on the side. 1995 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 9 Apr. 145/6 The Rolling Stones rock into Queensland this week, the latest music mega-stars to discover that there is a nice little earner to be made from the motor industry. < as lemmas |
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