| 释义 |
sell (or sell off) the family silverPart with a valuable resource for immediate advantage: the suggestion that privatization is selling off the family silver...- But at a time when business values are falling, stakeholders tend not to take kindly to selling the family silver at a knock-down price.
- When the sale was announced it was seen as one of the most important strategic decisions in the group's history, likened to selling the family silver.
- While it will be running hard to keep up with its younger peers in the telecoms sector, it won't be selling the family silver to do so.
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