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词汇 quid
释义 quid
noun[ C ]
UKinformaluk /kwɪd/ us /kwɪd/pluralquid
a pound: 一英镑
Could you lend me 20 quid (= £20), mate?伙计,能不能借我20英镑?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

British money
bit
bob
copper
crown
farthing
fiver
P, p
pence
penny
pound
pound sign
pound sterling
shilling
sixpenny
smacker
sovereign
threepenny
tuppence
tuppenny
twopenny

Idiom


be quids in

quid | Business English


quid
noun[ C ]
 MONEY informaluk /kwɪd/us
pluralquid
one pound in British money:
I make about fifteen quid an hour.
The tax benefits mean you are only paying 40p for a quid's worth of shares.
 be quids in
to save or make a lot of money from something:
Select the most appropriate gas and electricity suppliers and you could be quids in.
You'll be quids in if the market takes off now.

Examples of quid


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Then we really would be quids in, and it would be more convenient for everyone.
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If they get it wrong by overestimating the costs, they are quids in.
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He does not need 50 million quid's worth of advice to tell him how to do it.
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Women are quids in at the end of the day.
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They went behind the crowd that was already there and pushed and shoved and created chaos to get their three quid's worth.
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Even if the incentive lasts only until 2004, one would still be quids in.
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Nevertheless, one is still quids in.
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The lawyers will be quids in.
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In theory, each of these genres brackets the question central to the other; quid juris and quid facti are allegedly kept separate.
Perhaps ' where all things be lawful ' is too free a translation of ubi quid vis liceat (literally ' where whatever you want is permitted ').
There is a tertium quid between univocity and metaphor, namely analogy.
One problem is that the lack of precise data makes it hard to engage in a ' 'quid pro quo' ' and hence could impede future negotiations on liberalization.
Such a superior stake may create an authority that would make possible and legitimate, or even prescribe as necessary, a link between the quidfacti and the quid juris.
Efforts to overcome this quandary hinge critically on a successful search for a tertium quid that allows an unambiguous demarcation between distinct stages of paradigmatic development.
Business incorporation was viewed as a gift of the sovereign bestowed upon select groups of individuals as quid pro quo for the carrying out of certain important public tasks.
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