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单词 to make a mint
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to make (also lose, etc.) a mint (of money)
c. Chiefly with of. A quantity of money coined; a vast sum of money. Frequently to make (also lose, etc.) a mint (of money). Also (in extended use): a vast quantity or amount.
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society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > large sum
pounda1225
ransom?a1300
fother14..
gob1542
mint1579
king's ransomc1590
abomination1604
coda1680
a pretty (also fine, fair, etc.) penny1710
plunk1767
big money1824
pot1856
big one?1863
a small fortune1874
four figures1893
poultice1902
parcel1903
bundle1905
pretty1909
real money1918
stack1919
packet1922
heavy sugar1926
motza1936
big bucks1941
bomb1958
wedge1977
megadollars1980
squillion1986
bank1995
society > trade and finance > money > coining > [noun] > quantity of coin struck
mint1579
journeya1600
journey-weight1883
strike1891
mintage1971
1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin i. 21 They were plentifully furnished..with so rich a mynt of money [It. tanta copia di danari], that it sufficed against all wantes.
1598 J. Dickenson Greene in Conceipt To Rdr. sig. A 4v He vanished, leauing mee extreamely discontented; for I had ready a mint of questions.
1645 R. Verney Let. in F. P. Verney et al. Mem. Verney Family Civil War (1892) II. xii. 311 Sure you meane to sell them and bring mee a minte of money.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 172 A mass, a mint, a mine of mony could easily be advanced to defray the expences thereof.
1729 R. Bradley Riches of Hop-garden 2 Expect Mints of Money to tumble into their Laps for a little Secret.
c1810 R. B. Sheridan Let. (1966) III. 73 I thank you for not deducting from the £50 for every Pound is at this moment a mint to me.
1819 M. Wilmot Let. 21 Dec. (1935) 48 As for Nurse, she is indeed a treasure, she saves us mints in all household matters.
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. xxi. 237 He was so tasselled and so ruffled with a mint of bravery.
1874 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David IV. Ps. xciv. 16 Our John Knox would be worth a mint at this hour, but where is he?
1904 J. London Sea-wolf xxxii. 304 I've lighted on a fortune. It's a mint.
1955 Times 22 July 3/2 Endean made a mint of runs against Australia.
1990 Sun 6 Apr. 21/1 He..became king of the soap powder commercials. He made a mint by telling fans to swop their Brand X for Daz.
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to make a mint
2. An attempt, an effort; an attempt to strike; a blow aimed; a threatening gesture or movement. In later use only in to make a mint. Now rare.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > [noun] > threatening gesture or movement
mint?a1400
the world > action or operation > endeavour > [noun] > an attempt
tastec1330
assayc1386
proffera1400
proof?a1400
pluck?1499
saymenta1500
minta1522
attemptate1531
attempt1548
attemption1565
say1568
trice1579
offer1581
fling1590
tempt1597
essay1598
trial1614
tentative1632
molition1643
conamen1661
put1661
tentamen1673
conatus1722
shot1756
go1784
ettle1790
shy1824
hack1830
try1832
pop1839
slap1840
venture1842
stagger1865
flutter1874
whack1884
whirl1884
smack1889
swipe1892
buck1913
lash1941
wham1957
play1961
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 12059 He sawe wele how he mad mynt & with þe mace teised his dynt.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 2345 (MED) I mansed þe muryly with a mynt one & roue þe wyth no rof-sore.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 2350 Þat oþer munt for þe morne, mon, I þe profered, Þou kyssedes my clere wyf.
a1425 (?c1350) Ywain & Gawain (1964) 2613 A ful fel mynt to him he made.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) v. viii. 11 Now bendis he wp his burdoun with a mynt, On syde he bradis for till eschew the dint.
1573 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxxix. 361 He..Brocht thame to miserie maid ane mynt to wrang vs.
a1614 J. Melville Autobiogr. & Diary (1842) 273 His brother..making a mint, maid the lown to flie.
1636 A. Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae (new ed.) 1158 ‘Yet’, quoth Experience, ‘at thee Make many mints I may.’
a1699 J. Fraser Memoirs (1738) vi. 139 Nor made I ever any extraordinary Mint to seek God, but [etc.].
1728 A. Ramsay Epist. to W. Starrat 39 The lawly mints of my poor moorland muse.
1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words To ‘myek a mint’ is to make an attempt at doing.
1901 R. De B. Trotter Galloway Gossip Eighty Years Ago 422 A'll brain the first man at maks a mint tae kep me.
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