| 单词 | stroke of business |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstroke of business stroke of business n. now archaic a piece, esp. a large or considerable amount, of business or trade; also figurative. ΚΠ 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 484. ⁋4 The best Consolation that I can administer to those who cannot get into that Stroke of Business (as the Phrase is) which they deserve, is [etc.]. 1847 T. De Quincey Secret Societies in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 520/1 The goddess, and her establishment of hoaxers at Eleusis, did a vast ‘stroke of business’ for more than six centuries. 1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter 84 [People] who wanted to do a stroke of business with some old volume. 1904 J. Conrad Let. 29 May (1988) III. 142 You know how he failed with Falk and yet managed to do a stroke of business afterwards. 1939 B. Natarajan in Madras Tercentenary Commem. Vol. iv. xxxi. 251 A month later, the Council themselves did a stroke of business on their own account. < as lemmas |
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