fire sale

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A clearance sale at greatly reduced prices, often at losses. idiomatic
    — By the following year, Lehman’s enormous holdings in subprime loans were all but wiped out, and Bush was enlisted to see if he could engineer a fire sale of some of the bank’s empire of debt to the Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim.

词形变化

fire sales plural

词源

By metonymy, from 19th century discount sales of products that had been damaged by fire or that could no longer be stored because the storage facility had been destroyed by fire necessitating immediate sale or loss of value.
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