twenty-five cent word

短语

词形变化

twenty-five cent words 复数 twenty-five cent words

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Synonym of ten-dollar word.

    加拿大 美国 过时

    1988, Howard Rosenthal, Not With My Life I Don’t: Preventing Your Suicide and That of Others, Muncie, Indiana: Accelerated Development, Inc., Chapter 4, p. 18, Some of the most incredible cases I have ever worked with involve the act of pulling strands of hair from one’s own head. Psychiatrists and psychologists have a twenty-five cent word for this behavior. They call it Trichotillomania.