| 单词 | to fry out fat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto fry out fat c. to fry the fat out of: to subject to extortion. to fry out fat: to obtain money by pressure. U.S. slang. ΚΠ 1890 Congr. Rec. 10 July 7088/1 That process which in the U.S. is called the ‘frying of fat’ out of people. 1890 Congr. Rec. 16 July 7790/1 I did not suppose there had been any authority of law for ‘frying the fat’ out of the manufacturers in the last presidential campaign. 1904 Nation (N.Y.) 28 Apr. 321 His main qualification is admitted to be that of a good collector of funds. No one could, in the historic phrase, fry out more fat. < as lemmas |
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