Lombard Street to a China orange

短语

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    very long odds (in favour or against an outcome)

    过时 比喻 不可数

    As Jorrocks expressed it, in the event of such a catastrophe happening, “It was all Lombard Street to a China orange we’d lose the number of our mess and sarve as food for fishes!”

    Mora has been a favourite recreation with these people almost from their cradles, and he would be a bold man indeed who would venture to challenge a Torrese at this game, for the native's skill and experience are almost bound to tell eventually in his favour, and the odds are "Lombard Street to a China orange" against the outside player.

词源

* Lombard Street as a metonym for all the money in British banks. A China orange as something of trifling value.

来源:wiktionary