pretty penny 的 2 个定义
plural pen·nies, pence.
- a copper and zinc U.S. coin, worth one 100th of the U.S. dollar; one cent. Previous compositions of U.S. pennies included certain percentages of nickel and steel.
- a coin worth one 100th of the dollar of various other nations, although several of these nations, as Australia and New Zealand, no longer use pennies.
- Also called new penny . a copper-plated steel, formerly bronze, coin of the United Kingdom, one 100th of a pound. Abbreviation: p
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- Stock Exchange. of, relating to, or being penny stock: frenzied speculation in the penny market.
pretty penny 近义词
等同于 dear
等同于 expensive
pretty penny 的近义词 32 个
- costly
- extravagant
- fancy
- high
- lavish
- overpriced
- pricey
- upscale
- valuable
- an arm and a leg
- at a premium
- big-ticket
- dear
- excessive
- exorbitant
- highway robbery
- holdup
- immoderate
- inordinate
- invaluable
- out of sight
- plush
- posh
- rich
- ritzy
- sky-high
- steep
- stiff
- swank
- too high
- uneconomical
- unreasonable
pretty penny 的反义词 8 个
等同于 king's ransom
由pretty penny构成的短语
- penny for your thoughts, a
- penny pincher
- penny saved is a penny earned, a
- penny wise and pound foolish
- in for a penny, in for a pound
- pinch pennies
- pretty penny
- turn up (like a bad penny)
更多pretty penny例句
- In today’s essay, I look at the bubbly trade in penny and loss-making stocks, including the crazy surge in GameStop.
- Phil Knight, who with his wife, Penny, made the second- and third-largest donations last year according to the Chronicle, increased his wealth by about 77% over the same March-to-December period.
- While most prison jobs pay pennies on the hour, a few prison jobs, such as making furniture, pay $1 an hour, Bryant said.
- In this case, fixing just the worst fridges would cut vaccine damage in half and save lives for pennies on the dollar.
- Now, Watson can answer 75% of the questions people ask, and Otsego County has started paying for the service, which Pokorny says costs “pennies” per conversation.
- They deserve every penny and more: booking a four week tour is a huge job.
- “Every single witness is inadmissible, hearsay, triple-hearsay,” said assistant state attorney Penny Brill in court yesterday.
- She regressed to the mental state of a toddler lost in a J.C. Penny department store.
- “I have not been paid and will not be paid a single penny,” he declared.
- While there I am, getting mad at my wife for sending me cards all the time because I know she needs every penny right now.
- 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.
- In the same year he also manufactured two million penny tokens for our soldiers in Spain, which were not forbidden.
- The penny at that time was equal to a shilling of the present day, and would, relatively, purchase as much.