like cheese at fourpence
形容词 adj.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Of a person: waiting idly or timewasting.
— Don't stand there like cheese at fourpence.
词源
From the mill towns of Lancashire, where fourpence was considered expensive for cheese and hence cheese for sale at that price would not be bought.
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