| 词组 | mean enough to steal a penny off a dead man's eyes |
| 释义 | mean enough to steal a penny off a dead man's eyesExtremely and reprehensibly miserly, avaricious, or stingy. ("Mean" in this sense is a synonym for "cheap" or "stingy.") Primarily heard in UK. No, we never went anywhere interesting together when we were going out. She was mean enough to steal a penny off a dead man's eyes, so anything that cost even a bit of money was off the table. mean enough to steal a penny off a dead man's eyesVery mean. To keep a deceased's eyes closed, undertakers or whoever tended the body placed coins on the eyes. Anyone who would steal the money was indeed reprehensible. Just as evil was a man who was “mean enough to steal his wife's egg money,” pin money earned from selling eggs that the family didn't use themselves. |
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