sell bargainsとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

sell bargains (三人称単数 現在形 sells bargains, 現在分詞 selling bargains, 過去形および過去分詞形 sold bargains)

1. (idiomatic, obsolete) To make saucy (usually indelicate) repartees.

   Synonym: sell someone a bargain

   • 1682, John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe
   • 1731, [Jonathan Swift], “Strephon and Chloe”, in A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed. […], Dublin; London: […] [William Bowyer] for J. Roberts […], published 1734, OCLC 1102705083, page 19:

     No Maid at Court is leſs aſham'd, / Howe'er for ſelling Bargains fam'd, / Than ſhe, to name her Parts behind, / Or when a-bed, to let out Wind.

   • 1759 August 25, Samuel Johnson, The Idler, issue 71:

     He […] began to descend to familiar questions, endeavouring to accommodate his discourse to the grossness of rustic understandings. The clowns soon found that he did not know wheat from rye, and began to despise him; one of the boys, by pretending to show him a bird's nest, decoyed him into a ditch; and one of the wenches sold him a bargain.