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"Turn an honest penny" nghĩa là gì?
04 May, 2020
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"Turn an honest penny" = lật đồng xu chân thật -> nghĩa là kiếm ra tiền bằng cách hợp pháp, chính trực, bằng sức lực của mình.
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I have sympathy (lòng cảm thông) with the wind lobby in one respect. Its members are trying to turn an honest penny and must plan ahead.
Plunkitt bought up property around the gashouses, and the bill went easily through the state Senate and Assembly. But at the last second, Odell decided to veto (bác bỏ) it. Still, Plunkitt took flack for voting in favor of the bill that would benefit him. "I was really only workin' for my district (quận) and tryin' to turn an honest penny on the side," Plunkitt explained.
This surely reassures bureaucratic (quan liêu) patrons (người bảo trợ) of supposedly avant-garde expression – though the great auctions rooms, as we know, will find a way to turn an honest penny on even the most apparently recalcitrant (cứng đầu) forms of contemporary (đương thời) art.
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