| 单词 | butter-and-egg man |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbutter-and-egg man butter-and-egg man n. U.S. slang a dairyman; a provincial farmer or businessman characterized as unsophisticated or easily duped. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > wealth > [noun] > rich or wealthy person > rich and unsophisticated person butter-and-egg man1867 society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [noun] > one who spends > unsophisticated man who spends freely butter-and-egg man1867 1867 Dundee Courier & Argus 28 Jan. He say he get me in as a porter to a cheesemonger or butter and egg man, a Misser Thomson-Brown-Smit. 1882 Rocky Mountain News (Denver) 5 Mar. 4/3 The editor's eye Just happened to spy The butter-and-egg-man's bright look. 1948 Antioch Rev. Spring 105 The ‘butter-and-egg’ man who startles the foreign lecturer with blunt questions. 1995 H. Roth Mercy of Rude Stream iii. viii. 358 You were a liberated, vanguard bohemian; you sneered at the Babbitts and the big butter-and-egg men. < as lemmas |
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