| 单词 | catch-guinea |
| 释义 | > as lemmascatch-guinea catch-guinea adj. and n. (a) adj. designating or relating to a product or service designed primarily to generate large profits, through high prices or widespread marketing; (hence) superficially desirable but of little worth, overpriced; (b) n. a product (esp. a book or other publication) of this kind; a money-maker.With humorous allusion to catchpenny n.; cf. also catch-shilling adj. and n. ΚΠ 1785 Monthly Rev. 72 App. 494 We could not help looking upon his undertaking, however splendid, as rather a catch-guinea business. 1818 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) IV. 817 I have just looked over the first part—and it is what I anticipated, i.e. an infamous Catch-penny or rather Catch-guinea. 1898 M. M. Dowie Crook of Bough xix. 211 Islay had bent and exclaimed over huge baskets trimmed with artificial flowers—the Christmas catch-guineas of confectioners. 1947 E. Partridge Usage & Abusage 353/1 It makes no matter whether the girl is glamorous in her own right or by the catch-guinea arts of her dressmaker. 1984 A. G. N. Flew in A. C. Caplan & B. Jennings Darwin, Marx, & Freud i. 10 Such reductionist misinterpretation can be found in serious scholarship as well as in works of catch-guinea popularization. 1992 G. Legman in V. Randolph Blow Candle Out 903 The earlier Montague Summers reprint (1927) is a mere catch-guinea rushed into print. < as lemmas |
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