单词 | silly money |
释义 | > as lemmassilly money silly money n. colloquial (chiefly British) an absurdly large amount of money; an unjustifiable or immoderate sum; cf. sense A. 10 and stupid money n. at stupid adj., adv., and n. Compounds 4. ΚΠ 1980 Observer 26 Oct. 22/4 When you get to our level, the million pound transfer is merely diluted to the £100,000 transfer which is still stupid, silly money for us. 1983 Guardian 18 Mar. 22/4 The days of the relentless trek south by [football] players lured by silly money are over. 2006 Personal Computer World Dec. 9 Many of us remember the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, when silly money was spent on anything associated with the net. < as lemmas |
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