rinky-dink
短语a. 毫无价值的, 破旧的 n. 破烂
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A person who is contemptible or insignificant.
An amateur or someone who is underqualified.
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A person who is contemptible or insignificant.
Someone who operates unethically; specifically, a small-time conman or crook.
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Something that is not up to acceptable standards; something of low quality.
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A miscellaneous object or thing; a thingy.
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Deceptive or underhanded rigmarole; deception, trickery; (countable) often preceded by the: an instance of this; a deception, swindle, a trick.
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Alternative form of rinky-tink (“a tinkling, tinny style of music; honky-tonk”).
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Of poor quality; amateurish, shoddy, small-time.
美国 非正式That rinky-dink shelf is likely to collapse if you fill it with books.
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Old-fashioned, tired; also, shabby, worn-out.
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Crooked, dishonest, underhanded.
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Alternative form of rinky-tink (“tinkling and tinny”).
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词源
Origin unknown; possibly a variant of rickety (“of an object: not strong or sturdy; of a person: feeble in the joints, tottering”), reduplicated with a change of the initial consonant. The noun is attested earlier than the adjective.
来源：wiktionary