| 单词 | one born every minute |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(there's) one (also a sucker) born every minute P9. (there's) one (also a sucker) born every minute and variants: there are many naive or gullible people who are easy to cheat or deceive. With quot. 1835 cf. flat n.3 13. ΚΠ 1835 Bell's Life in London 22 Feb. It is only surprising, after the repeated exposures of this species of robbery, that fresh flats are so frequently picked up; but, as these ingenious speculators say, ‘there is a flat born every minute’. 1870 Sporting Times 12 Feb. 54/2 It is said there is one born every minute—who can believe that a fortune is to be made for them by a man of whom they know nothing. 1934 Washington Post 25 Sept. 8/4 Politics is an old, tricky game... And since there is a sucker born every minute, it still fools some of the people all of the time. 2016 Weekly Standard 18 Apr. 34 There's one born every minute, as every con person knows. < as lemmas |
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