英语词汇“sink-pocket”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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sink-pocket

† sink-pocket n. colloquial Obsolete a person, place, or thing that swallows up money; a drain on financial resources.

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1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall (U.K. ed.) II. 312 I've been a complete sink-pocket, that's the truth of it!

1829 Louisville (Kentucky) Public Advertiser 11 July Walter Jones, the public attorney..has played sink-pocket with all the money of the government which he collected.

1879 Daily Disp. (Richmond, Va.) 1 Dec. Our proposed railroad will soon be a sink-pocket, falling into disuse and ruin.

1917 ‘Banjo’ Paterson Three Elephant Power 63 He's a blanky sink-pocket. If he can come this far, let him come on to Sydney and play for double the stakes.

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单词	sink-pocket
释义	> as lemmas sink-pocket † sink-pocket n. colloquial Obsolete a person, place, or thing that swallows up money; a drain on financial resources. ΚΠ 1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall (U.K. ed.) II. 312 I've been a complete sink-pocket, that's the truth of it! 1829 Louisville (Kentucky) Public Advertiser 11 July Walter Jones, the public attorney..has played sink-pocket with all the money of the government which he collected. 1879 Daily Disp. (Richmond, Va.) 1 Dec. Our proposed railroad will soon be a sink-pocket, falling into disuse and ruin. 1917 ‘Banjo’ Paterson Three Elephant Power 63 He's a blanky sink-pocket. If he can come this far, let him come on to Sydney and play for double the stakes. extracted from sinkv. < as lemmas
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