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单词 red cent
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red cent
red cent n. originally U.S. a one-cent coin (originally made of copper); (usually in extended use) a trivial amount of money; usually in negative expressions; cf. sense B. 14.
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society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [phrase] > small
(and) odd money1447
two and a plack1692
red cent1837
1837 Spirit of Times 2 Dec. 333/3 Not a red cent to my name—not even enough to buy a hoe-cake of a meal.
1889 Sir Charles Danvers xxix I don't care a red cent what you say.
1900 W. Archer Let. 1 Feb. in C. Archer William Archer (1931) xii. 263 I have never given a red cent for the ideas in plays.
1958 J. Carew Black Midas ix. 193 He will pay you seven dollar..and not a red cent extra.
2003 K. Kwei-Armah Elmina's Kitchen ii. iii. 82 Tell them they can come burn down my place, before they get a red cent from me.
extracted from redadj.n.adv.
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