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"Cross his palm" nghĩa là gì?
28 Apr, 2019
my last hope... Photo courtesy Cristina Valencia.
'Cross one's palm with silver' nghĩa là trả tiền cho ai đó vì họ đã giúp mình, cho mình lợi lộc/đặc ân; đôi khi chính là hối lộ, lót tay v.v... đó các mem; thành ngữ này bắt nguồn từ bói toán, khi khách hàng dùng đồng bạc để tìm ra dấu chữ thập trên tay thầy số.
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Your first task is to get the urn from Xûr, who is hiding down with the Crucible vendors this weekend and you will need to cross his palm with a single strange coin to get the pottery.
Of course, my naïve hopes were dashed almost immediately. Facebook’s dastardly (hèn nhát, bỉ ổi, hèn hạ; đê tiện, ném đá giấu tay) algorithm (thuật toán) would only show my brilliant #sundaythoughts to a fraction of my modest following. To get in front of my own readers, I’d have to kneel before the almighty Zuck – and cross his palm with silver.
‘Chrissie doesn’t fully trust Dean although she knows he is reliable so long as she crosses his palm with silver. She knows that type well and how to make them work for her. When he reveals he’s been asked to track down someone called Tim Richards though, she doesn’t recognise the name at all.’
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