单词 | to make a mint |
释义 | > as lemmasto 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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