penny-ante

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penny-ante 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. Cards. a game of poker in which the ante or basic bet is one cent.
  2. Informal. any business arrangement or transaction involving a trifling or paltry sum of money.

penny-ante 近义词

penny-ante

等同于 petty

penny-ante

等同于 inconsiderable

更多penny-ante例句

  1. Joseph LaRocca says some companies are upping the ante in terms of fending off return fraudsters.
  2. They deserve every penny and more: booking a four week tour is a huge job.
  3. The second upped the ante, taking aim at “cray,” “jelly,” “literally,” “teehee,” and “totes.”
  4. “Every single witness is inadmissible, hearsay, triple-hearsay,” said assistant state attorney Penny Brill in court yesterday.
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  6. In 1603 it was ordered that one quart of best ale, or two of small, should be sold for one penny.
  7. Since the end of 1847, not a penny has come into his own pocket either through piano-playing and conducting, or through teaching.
  8. A system of supplying school-children with penny dinners is the latest philanthropic movement.
  9. Cert ante hoc tempus vix vnquam Gallis vacatum fuit conuertdis incolarum ad Christum animis.
  10. Nam Sacerdos ille, qui huc ante nos aduenerat, nostro statim adutu in Galliam sua ipse sponte & pro veteri desiderio remigrauit.