单词 | boom and bust |
释义 | > as lemmasboom and (or) bust b. boom and (or) bust: a period of great prosperity followed by a severe depression. Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] > a rise in prosperity > followed by adversity or setback boom and (or) bust1943 1943 H. S. Canby Walt Whitman iii. 18 The building trade, as usual, suffered from boom-and-bust. 1947 D. Riesman in Yale Law Jrnl. Dec. 194 The luxury market would be..entitled..to its privilege of boom and bust. 1962 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 July 502/1 Cataclysmic alternatives—destruction or utopia, boom or bust. < as lemmas |
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