line one's pockets

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To accumulate personal wealth, especially in an illegal or morally objectionable manner. idiomatic
    — The men who have lined their pockets with public plunder and made the Municipal Government a nest of thieves—will any one in his sober senses believe that in all these men did they were doing more than struggling for a continuance of their own power?

词形变化

lines one's pockets present,singular,third-person lining one's pockets participle,present lined one's pockets participle,past lined one's pockets past
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