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free lunch

免费午餐,免费的午餐,免费午饭,自由午餐

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : food provided without charge in some bars and saloons to attract customers.
    • : Informal. something given with no expectation of repayment, service, responsibility, etc.: In politics there's no free lunch—everyone expects favors to be repaid.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Targeting lower-cost conversions can be risky because there is no such thing as a free lunch.

  • Many of the children speak a language other than English at home and qualify for free lunch through their schools.

  • In the physical world, there’s no such thing as a free lunch, and that’s also true on the internet.

  • In other words—no one, or at least very few, gets a free lunch.

  • It’s not quite a free lunch, but it should at least put food in the nation’s stomachs.

  • In other words, the free thinker defending freedom of thought.

  • Tend to your own garden, to quote the great sage of free speech, Voltaire, and invite people to follow your example.

  • The simple, awful truth is that free speech has never been particularly popular in America.

  • Cambodia, with its seemingly free press, is also a haven for foreign journalists.

  • In other words, the free speech exhibited by the folks at Charlie Hebdo was not virtuous—until there was a body count.

  • What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?

  • It seemed to free her of a responsibility which she had blindly assumed and for which Fate had not fitted her.

  • If we can free this State of Yankees, we will accomplish more than your armies down south have.

  • The voice of the orator peculiarly should be free from studied effects, and responsive to motive.

  • Above all, he was amazed to hear me talk of a mercenary standing army in the midst of peace and among a free people.