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have/get your snout in the trough idiomUKinformal to have or get a share of a supply of money or some other advantage that people eagerly and sometimes dishonestly take: 便宜;不应得的利益 The council had been handing out grants indiscriminately, and people were hurrying to get their snouts in the trough.市政会一直在不加鉴别地分发补助金,结果人们都趋之若鹜地去捞一份。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Amounts of money balance bank bounty buck capital circumstance coin fisc float holdback living wage money supply payout pool sub sum surplus trough wherewithal your daily breadidiom
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