| 单词 | to eat one's seed corn |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto eat one's seed corn to eat one's seed corn (and variants): to use up assets without regard for the greater benefit they are likely to generate if preserved. ΚΠ 1873 Rockingham Reg. (Harrisonburg, Va.) 17 Jan. The figures we publish show that the total income of the State is only $3,290, 980. 78—while our expenditure is $3, 361, 538. 47. In other words, we are eating our seed corn. 1912 I. Fisher & E. F. Robbins Mem. Conservation Human Life (62nd Congr., 2nd Sess.: Senate Doc. No. 493) 8 Through our present prodigality of human life and strength we are cutting up our oxen and eating our seed corn; we are scattering the substance that belongs to future generations. 1989 New Yorker 20 Mar. 97/1 A Cabinet officer said to me worriedly, ‘The President is using up too much of his seed corn’. 2002 Time 18 Mar. 62/2 Cash outs [from refinancing a home mortgage] ‘are a little like eating your seed corn. It's not a long-term solution.’ < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。