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"Nice as ninepence" nghĩa là gì?
18 Jun, 2021
"Nice as ninepence" -> nghĩa là sạch sẽ, gọn gàng ngăn nắp.
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The slicks offer hilarious levels of grip (lực bám) and the brakes feel like you just dropped a USS Nimitz-class supercarrier anchor out the back, while the 215bhp WorldSBK-spec engine has all the civility of a Groucho Club commissionaire at kicking-out time. Nice as ninepence, but relentlessly vehement in its drive.
I’d bet you a months wages that she’s not nice as ninepence to the delivery crew, and pleased as punch that they have brought her a lovely new sofa. I’ll bet they get both barrels from her… and some. It’s a universal situation. For ‘home’ read ‘sofa’. For ‘sofa’ – read ‘car’. In every situation, the differential between expectation and reality equals disappointment.
He performs all of his Machiavellian chicanery with such aplomb and chutzpah that it's impossible not to delight in his misdeeds. Maybe that's why we like all of these entries on this list; they might be living their lives as douchebags (lũ khốn) but at least they're living their lives to the fullest. The same can't be said for a lot of polite, conscientious people, who are on the outside nice as ninepence but on the inside dead as doornails.
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