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单词 to go one's pile
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to go one's pile
f. Originally U.S. A large amount money; a fortune. †to go one's pile (U.S.): to stake all one's money on a single chance (obsolete).The final couplet in quot. 1734 at sense 2b became common as an aphorism in almanacs, etc., and has often been interpreted by later lexicographers as being this sense.
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the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [noun] > an amount of wealth
substancea1382
fortune1596
pile1836
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > play games of chance [verb (intransitive)] > stake > type of stake
to play high1640
butter1671
set up one's rest1680
to play low1735
paroli1835
to go one's pile1836
to go nap1894
parlay1895
double up1940
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. ii. 108 What piles of wealth hath he accumulated To his owne portion? View more context for this quotation]
1836 Spirit of Times 9 July 162 You oversize my pile, but if I can borrow the money I'll accomodate [sic] you.
1839 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 29 Mar. 2/2 Friends of the Lubber, becoming excited at the unexpected termination of the first heat, were willing to go a ‘small pile’ somewhere in the neighborhood of even.
1840 Spirit of Times 10 498 Considerable sums were laid out..the Georgians ‘going their pile’ on the Andrew filly.
1850 L. Sawyer Way Sketches 119 Quite a large number of persons have ‘made their piles’ in this region.
1865 ‘M. Twain’ Celebrated Jumping Frog (1867) 37 His last acts was to go his pile..when there was a ‘flush’ out agin him.
1887 A. Jessopp Arcady vii. 196 Capitalists who had made their pile were consumed by a desire to walk over their own broad acres.
1915 J. Buchan Thirty-nine Steps i. 10 I had got my pile—not one of the big ones, but good enough for me.
1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? iv. 69 A guy..made a nice little pile out of one of De Maupassant's stories just the other day.
1992 Economist 21 Nov. 48/3 A bouncy plutocrat who made his pile from running ballrooms and a pet-food factory.
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