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单词 money burns a hole in one's pocket
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money burns (a hole) (in) one's pocket
c. money burns (a hole) (in) one's pocket: one is impatient to spend one's money. (The same notion is expressed by other constructions of the verb; e.g. to burn one's pocket, a hole in one's pocket, cf. 16; more rarely the pocket is said to be burning out with its contents.)
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society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > waste of money or extravagance > spend money wastefully or extravagantly [verb (intransitive)] > be impatient to spend money
money burns (a hole) (in) one's pocket1702
to burn a hole in one's pocketa1840
1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes ii. x. f.lxi Hauyng a lytell wanton money whyche hym thought brennyd out the botom of hys purs.]
1702 G. Farquhar Inconstant v. iii. 77 My time lyes heavy on my hands, and my Money burns in my Pocket.
1740 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 165 The post brought me your letter, which burnt in my pocket.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. ii. 29 Children..cannot rest till they get rid of their money, or as we say, it burns in their pockets.
1849 R. Cobden Speeches 82 Your pockets are burning out at the bottom with railway shares.
1875 S. Smiles Thrift viii. 125 A man who has more money about him than he requires..is tempted to spend it... It is apt to ‘burn a hole in his pocket’.
1885 Harper's Mag. Feb. 361/1 The thousand dollars was burning in her pocket-book.
1943 M. Lasswell Suds in your Eye xiv. 103 Her money was burning a hole in her pocket.
1958 L. Durrell Balthazar xiii. 227 I've scraped a dowry together over the years... The money burns my pocket.
1998 Guardian 19 Dec. (Jobs & Money section) 9/1 Money burns a hole in the pockets of Ariens.
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money burns (a hole) (in) one's pocket
(d) money burns (a hole) (in) one's pocket: see burn v.1 3c.
extracted from moneyn.
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