英语词组line pockets是什么意思，短语翻译、用法及例句-英语词组固定搭配大全

Idiom

line pocketsline (someone's) pockets

if money or a system is lining someone's pockets, that person is receiving too much money or is receiving money that is not intended for them.

There's to be an investigation following allegations that the money raised is lining the pockets of officials.

line (one's) (own) pocket(s)

To make a large amount of money for oneself in a way that is considered greedy or dishonest. The phrase typically implies that one is prioritizing making money above some other, more admirable goal. He doesn't care about creating some digital utopia—he's just trying to line his own pockets. This new contract is going to line our pockets for years.

line (one's) pockets

To make a profit, especially by illegitimate means.

line one's pockets, to

To accept bribes, or acquire money in some other questionable way. One writer claims that this term originated when a court tailor who wanted the patronage of Beau Brummel gave him a gift of a coat lined with banknotes. However, the term to line one’s purse, meaning to cram it full of gold or money, predates the eighteenth-century dandy by some two hundred years; Shakespeare used it in Othello (1.1), where Iago speaks of dishonest servants who “have lin’d their coats.”

词组	line pockets
释义	Idiom line pocketsline (someone's) pockets if money or a system is lining someone's pockets, that person is receiving too much money or is receiving money that is not intended for them. There's to be an investigation following allegations that the money raised is lining the pockets of officials. line (one's) (own) pocket(s) To make a large amount of money for oneself in a way that is considered greedy or dishonest. The phrase typically implies that one is prioritizing making money above some other, more admirable goal. He doesn't care about creating some digital utopia—he's just trying to line his own pockets. This new contract is going to line our pockets for years. line (one's) pockets To make a profit, especially by illegitimate means. line one's pockets, to To accept bribes, or acquire money in some other questionable way. One writer claims that this term originated when a court tailor who wanted the patronage of Beau Brummel gave him a gift of a coat lined with banknotes. However, the term to line one’s purse, meaning to cram it full of gold or money, predates the eighteenth-century dandy by some two hundred years; Shakespeare used it in Othello (1.1), where Iago speaks of dishonest servants who “have lin’d their coats.”
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