Lombard Street to a China orange
短语释义与例句
n.
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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