pound Идиома
an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
penny-wise and pound foolish
pound of flesh
pound the pavement
Dog Pound
give me my pounds
pounds
2. money
3. a 5-year sentence
4. to drink beer quickly
5. of a man, to perform sex vigorously
6. see
pound away at
If you pound away at the job，you'll have finished it before dark．如果你拼命干，不到天黑你就能干完。
He's been pounding away at the job for the last two days．这两天来他一刻不停地在干这件事。
2．persistently attack连续猛击
The two fleets pounded away at each other until night fall．两支舰队互相轰击直到天黑。
In his speech he kept pounding away at his opponent's inefficiency．他在演说中不断攻击他的对手不称职。
pound sth out
Idiom(s): pound sth outTheme: COMMUNICATION - KEYBOARD
to type something on a typewriter or computer. (Slang.)
• Please pound it out again. There are six errors.
• It'll take just a few hours to pound out this letter.
pound a beat
Idiom(s): pound a beatTheme: MOVEMENT
to walk a route. (Informal. Usually said of a police patrol officer.)
• Officer Smith pounded the same beat for years and years.
• I don't want to pound a beat all my life.
penny-wise and pound-foolish
Idiom(s): penny-wise and pound-foolishTheme: FOOLISHNESS
A proverb meaning that it is foolish to lose a lot of money to save a little money. (Fixed order.)
• Sally shops very carefully to save a few cents on food, then charges the food to a charge card that costs a lot in annual interest. That's being pennywise and pound-foolish.
• John drives thirty miles to buy gas for three cents a gallon less than it costs here. He's really penny-wise and pound-foolish.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
It is easier to prevent something from happening than to repair the damage or cure the disease later.In for a penny, in for a pound.
If you start something, it's better to spend the time or money necessary to complete it.Penny wise, pound foolish.
Refers to a person who is careful about spending small amounts of money, but not careful about spending large amounts of money.Grey pound
(UK) In the UK, the grey pound is an idiom for the economic power of elderly people.In for a penny, in for a pound
If something is worth doing then it is a case of in for a penny, in for a pound, which means that when gambling or taking a chance, you might as well go the whole way and take all the risks, not just some.Look after the pennies and the pounds will look af
(UK) If you look after the pennies, the pounds will look after themselves, meaning that if someone takes care not to waste small amounts of money, they will accumulate capital. ('Look after the pence and the pounds will look after themselves' is an alternative form of this idiom.)Penny wise, pound foolish
Someone who is penny wise, pound foolish can be very careful or mean with small amounts of money, yet wasteful and extravagant with large sums.Pink pound
(UK) In the UK, the pink pound is an idiom for the economic power of gay people.Sound as a pound
(UK) if something is as sound as a pound, it is very good or reliable.penny wise and pound foolish|foolish|penny|penny w
Wise or careful in small things but not careful enough in important things.
A proverb. Mr. Smith's fence is rotting and falling down because he wouldn't spend money to paint it. He is penny wise and pound foolish.pound away at|pound|pound away
v. phr. 1. To attack; criticize. In his campaign speeches the candidate kept pounding away at the administration's foreign policy. 2. To work industriously. Mike was pounding away at the foundation of his new house with shovels and pickaxes.pound of flesh|flesh|pound
n. phr., literary The maximum payment authorized by law. He had hoped that Peter would be lenient regarding the interest they had agreed on, but Peter demanded his full pound of flesh.pound out|pound
v. phr. 1. To play a piece of music very loudly on a percussion instrument. The boy was pounding out the tune "Mary had a little lamb" on the marimba. 2. To flatten something with a hammer. The bodyshop uses special hammers to pound out the indentations in the bodies of cars. 3. To produce a piece of writing on a typewriter in haste and without much care. She hurriedly pounded out a letter of recommendation for the foreign graduate student.pound the pavement|pavement|pound
v. phr., informal To walk up and down the streets; tramp about. John pounded the pavement looking for a job. Mary and Bill pounded the pavement to find an apartment.compound
compoundcompound a felony (or crime)
Etymology: < compound
to agree, for a bribe or repayment, not to inform about or prosecute for a felony (or crime): it is an illegal act
ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, an
ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, anIt is easier to forestall a disaster than to deal with it. For example, The new law makes all children under twelve wear bicycle helmets—an ounce of prevention. This ancient proverb is first recorded in Latin in Henry de Bracton's De Legibus (c. 1240) and has been repeated ever since, often in shortened form.
penny wise and pound foolish
penny wise and pound foolishStingy about small expenditures and extravagant with large ones, as in Dean clips all the coupons for supermarket bargains but insists on going to the best restaurants—penny wise and pound foolish. This phrase alludes to British currency, in which a pound was once worth 240 pennies, or pence, and is now worth 100 pence. The phrase is also occasionally used for being very careful about unimportant matters and careless about important ones. It was used in this way by Joseph Addison in The Spectator (1712): “A woman who will give up herself to a man in marriage where there is the least Room for such an apprehension ... may very properly be accused ... of being penny wise and pound foolish.” [c. 1600]
pound
poundIn addition to the idioms beginning with pound, also see in for a penny, in for a pound; penny wise and pound foolish.
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- pound of flesh
- pound out
- pound the pavement
pound out
pound outProduce, especially on a keyboard, as in I can pound out another résumé, or She was pounding out song after song on the piano. [c. 1900]
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