| 单词 | to get one's money's worth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto get one's money's worth 2. An equivalent for the sum of money paid or to be paid; (full) value for one's money. Now chiefly with possessive adjective, esp. in to get one's money's worth. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > [noun] > full value money's worth1598 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost ii. i. 136 In suretie of the which, One part of Aquitaine is bound to vs, Although not valued to the monies worth . View more context for this quotation 1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. ii. 347 The wealth or revenue..is equal only to one of the two values..to the money's-worth more properly than to the money. View more context for this quotation 1844 R. W. Emerson Ess. 2nd Ser. vii. 235 Of all debts, men are least willing to pay the taxes... Everywhere they think they get their money's worth, except for these. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 136 I give my pupils their money's-worth. 1941 C. Hermer & M. May Havana Mañana p. xii There have been no books about Havana that show tourists how to get more than their money's worth out of shopping, eating, sightseeing and nightclubbing. 1992 Country Woman (Collector's ed.) 22 61/2 We've taken several of your tours, and on every one of them, we got our money's worth and then some. < as lemmas |
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