| 词汇 | penny-ante |
| 释义 | penny-ante adjective USuk /ˈpen.iˌæn.ti/ us /ˈpen.iˌæn.t̬i/ of little value or importance: 没什么价值的；无关紧要的 He was proposing some penny-ante increase.他提议略微增加一些。 Of little or less importance be in/under someone's shadowidiom be neither here nor thereidiom big deal biggie derisory marginal meaningless meaninglessly meaninglessness mere picture piddling piddly piffling play second fiddleidiom unserious unseriousness venial vestigial vestigially Examples of penny-antepenny-ante His rumpled appearance belied his comfortable station in life while he continued his lifelong associations and played in weekly penny-ante poker games with his friends. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. But these are penny-ante games compared to the big racket - the war racket. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Graft is penny-ante these days. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Penny-ante poker was the only game of chance permitted. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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