英语词汇“the game's not worth the candle”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

the game's not worth the candle

The potential advantages to be gained from doing something do not justify the cost or trouble involved: she may decide the game’s not worth the candle and walk away from the discussions they may find that aggressive expansion is not worth the candle...

What Lindsay Anderson called poetic naturalism, or what we're trying to accomplish - dense, indicative realism presented as a collage - is easily dismissed as not worth the candle.
I've always thought that if you have to work at it and you're not happy, it's not worth the candle.
Mr Curry reckons that the minor powers on offer to the mini-parliaments are not worth the candle, so people of Yorkshire and elsewhere should vote against it.

See parent entry: candle

单词	the game's not worth the candle
释义	the game's not worth the candle The potential advantages to be gained from doing something do not justify the cost or trouble involved: she may decide the game’s not worth the candle and walk away from the discussions they may find that aggressive expansion is not worth the candle... What Lindsay Anderson called poetic naturalism, or what we're trying to accomplish - dense, indicative realism presented as a collage - is easily dismissed as not worth the candle. I've always thought that if you have to work at it and you're not happy, it's not worth the candle. Mr Curry reckons that the minor powers on offer to the mini-parliaments are not worth the candle, so people of Yorkshire and elsewhere should vote against it. See parent entry: candle
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