Hoover flag

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An empty (penniless) pocket, turned inside out, showing that someone has no money (especially during the Great Depression.) US,dated,idiomatic
    — But drawing from my pants an old Hoover flag left over from my father's failed youth, I see I lack the least smudge of a penny to pay salvation's cover charge [...] with. So I begin circling the block drunkenly, in a holding pattern, [...]

词形变化

Hoover flags plural

词源

From Hoover (“Herbert Hoover, US president at the start of the Great Depression”) + flag.
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