rag-shop

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A bank (financial institution). obsolete,slang
    — Downing-street must bow down before Threadneedle, and St Stephen's must crave licence of the Bank. We must not be surprised if the potent Senate of the Rag-shop should vote the Constitution void, and dismiss King, Lords, and Commons, as an expensive pageant, since they have taken our lives, properties, religion, welfare and morals, into their keeping […]
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rag, shop.

词形变化

rag-shops plural

词源

(bank): From the slang term rag (“a banknote”).
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