my kingdom for a horse

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释义与例句

phr.
  1. 1.

    The speaker is willing to sacrifice anything to obtain a seemingly unimportant item that is invaluable at a critical moment.

词源

From William Shakespeare's Richard III (written c. 1593; published 1597), Act V, scene iv (spelling modernized): "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse."

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