单词 | the gentleman who pays the rent |
释义 | > as lemmasthe gentleman who pays the rent P13. Originally and chiefly Irish English. the gentleman who pays the rent and variants : a pig. Now rare. ΚΠ 1845 Cork Examiner 7 Nov. No shed for fuel, no pigsty for ‘the gentleman who pays the rent’. 1956 Irish Times 29 Aug. 6/1 Swine fever may assail, perhaps mortally, not only gentlemen who pay the rent, but gentlemen in general. < as lemmas |
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