penny-ante 的定义
- Cards. a game of poker in which the ante or basic bet is one cent.
- Informal. any business arrangement or transaction involving a trifling or paltry sum of money.
penny-ante 近义词
等同于 petty
penny-ante 的近义词 38 个
- frivolous
- lesser
- minor
- narrow-minded
- base
- inessential
- inferior
- junior
- light
- little
- lower
- peanut
- scratch
- secondary
- shallow
- shoestring
- slight
- small
- subordinate
- trifling
- casual
- cheap
- contemptible
- inconsequent
- inconsiderable
- irrelevant
- measly
- negligible
- nickel-and-dime
- niggling
- paltry
- pettifogging
- picayune
- piddling
- shabby
- small-minded
- two-bit
- unimportant
penny-ante 的反义词 17 个
等同于 inconsiderable
penny-ante 的近义词 39 个
- base
- casual
- cheap
- contemptible
- frivolous
- inconsequent
- inessential
- inferior
- irrelevant
- junior
- lesser
- light
- little
- lower
- measly
- minor
- narrow-minded
- negligible
- nickel-and-dime
- niggling
- nugatory
- of no account
- paltry
- peanut
- pettifogging
- picayune
- piddling
- scratch
- secondary
- shabby
- shallow
- shoestring
- slight
- small
- small-minded
- subordinate
- trifling
- two-bit
- unimportant
更多penny-ante例句
- Joseph LaRocca says some companies are upping the ante in terms of fending off return fraudsters.
- They deserve every penny and more: booking a four week tour is a huge job.
- The second upped the ante, taking aim at “cray,” “jelly,” “literally,” “teehee,” and “totes.”
- “Every single witness is inadmissible, hearsay, triple-hearsay,” said assistant state attorney Penny Brill in court yesterday.
- Phasellus tristique, eros sit amet maximus tincidunt, enim massa congue nibh, non rutrum lorem ante non lectus.
- In 1603 it was ordered that one quart of best ale, or two of small, should be sold for one penny.
- Since the end of 1847, not a penny has come into his own pocket either through piano-playing and conducting, or through teaching.
- A system of supplying school-children with penny dinners is the latest philanthropic movement.
- Cert ante hoc tempus vix vnquam Gallis vacatum fuit conuertdis incolarum ad Christum animis.
- Nam Sacerdos ille, qui huc ante nos aduenerat, nostro statim adutu in Galliam sua ipse sponte & pro veteri desiderio remigrauit.