搜尋結果
rathole
- IPA[ˈrathəʊl]
英式
- a cramped or squalid room or building;used to refer to the waste of money or resources
- hide (money or goods), typically as part of a deception
noun: rathole, plural noun: ratholes
- 釋義
名詞
- 1. informal a cramped or squalid room or building a rathole where a friend lived until her place was broken into for the seventeenth time
- 2. North American informal used to refer to the waste of money or resources pouring our assets down the rathole of military expenditure
- 3. (in the oil industry) a shallow hole drilled near a well to accommodate the drill string joint when not in use.
- ▪ a small hole drilled at the bottom of a larger hole.
動詞
- 1. North American informal hide (money or goods), typically as part of a deception he had ratholed the nine thousand that nobody could find
- 更多解釋
- IPA[ˈratˌ(h)ōl]
美式
- a cramped or squalid room or building: a rathole where a friend lived until her place was broken into for the seventeenth time
- hide (money or goods), typically as part of a fraud or deception: he had ratholed the nine thousand that nobody could find
Oxford American Dictionary