| 释义 |
not have a bean not have a beanTo have very little or no money; to be very poor. He didn't have a bean during college, and he's been something of a penny-pincher ever since.See also: bean, have, notnot have a beanBe destitute or penniless, as in He doesn't have a bean, but she's set on marrying him. Bean has been a slang term for a guinea or a sovereign coin since the early 1800s. The precise expression was first recorded in 1928. See also: bean, have, notnot have a bean BRITISH, OLD-FASHIONEDIf you do not have a bean, you have no money. Note: In the following expressions, `bean' means money. It's quite incredible to think that he now hasn't got a bean. When we married we hadn't a bean so we bought all our furniture second-hand.See also: bean, have, notnot have a bean be penniless. informal Bean was an early 19th-century slang term for a golden guinea or sovereign. In the sense of ‘a coin’, it now survives only in this phrase.See also: bean, have, not |