goldbrick

vi. 逃避工作, 游手好闲 n. 假金砖, 赝品, 懒汉

词形变化

goldbricks 复数 goldbricks goldbricked goldbricking goldbricks 三单 goldbricking 现在分词 goldbricked 过去式 goldbricked 过去分词

别名

gold brick gold-brick

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Something fraudulent or nonexistent offered for sale; a swindle or con.

    Experience is the biggest gold brick in the world. All older people have it for sale.

    The average farmer may be less of a victim than some other people by reason of his isolation, conservatism, and hard earned money, but he, too, has too often bought a goldbrick that did not materialize.

    […] that if he bought a goldbrick from Podhoretz for $25,000, he ought to pay me more than the $5,000 a volume that had been agreed on for the pure gold […]

  2. 2.

    A shirker or malingerer.

    美国 过时 俚语

    Mac, there’s not a confounded thing wrong with you. You are an excellent physical specimen and in good health. You’re nothing but a goldbrick. Now, get your butt out of here and don’t ever come back again unless you’re really sick or need an immunization.

    Tell me that I’ve been a louse and loafer You won’t get a fight here, no ma’am Say I’m a goldbrick, a goof-off, no good But that couldn’t be all that I am

  3. 3.

    A swindler.

    美国 过时 俚语
v.
  1. 1.

    To shirk or malinger.

    美国 过时 俚语
  2. 2.

    To swindle.

    美国 过时 俚语

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

good-for-nothing good-for-naught goof-off ne'er-do-well

上位词 10

soldier block bum fraud cube hoax humbug loafer slacker layabout
动词

同义词 10

con scam rook fiddle swindle diddle shirk defraud victimize bunco

上位词 4

avoid cheat chisel rip off

下位词 6

short slack malinger scrimshank shortchange skulk

词源

From gold + brick, originally (1850s) an actual gold ingot or brick, later a swindle that consisted of selling a putative gold brick, which was only coated in gold. The swindle is attested from 1879, the sense “to swindle” is attested 1902, and the sense “to shirk” is attested 1914, popularized as World War I armed forces slang. In early 1900s, used to refer to an unattractive young woman – not pretty, nor able to talk or dance (attested 1903), thence to refer to incompetent enlisted troops at the start of World War I, reinforced by the rank insignia of second lieutenants, which was a gold rectangle.

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