fire sale

短语

n. <美>火灾受损物品拍卖

词形变化

fire sales 复数 fire sales

别名

firesale

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A clearance sale at greatly reduced prices, often at losses.

    清仓甩卖

    习语

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

词源

By metonymy, from 19th century discount sales of products that had been damaged by fire or that could no longer be stored because the storage facility had been destroyed by fire necessitating immediate sale or loss of value.

来源:wiktionary