英语词汇“squandermania”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

squandermania

释义

squanderˈmania colloq.
[f. squander v. + -mania.]
An insane desire or obsession to spend money recklessly or to waste assets. Hence squanderˈmaniac a. and n.
1920Public Opinion 2 July 3/1 The public are deeply roused upon the Squandermania issue.1921Glasgow Herald 2 Apr. 7 The burden imposed upon him [sc. the tax-payer] by a ‘Squandermaniac’ Government.1922Public Opinion 10 Mar. 228/1 The real squandermaniac would be revealed in the man with an infinite capacity for standing at street corners.1931Punch 4 Nov. 481/1 The triumph of Reason over Squandermania.1933C. Mackenzie Water on Brain vii. 85 There cheek by jowl sat the squandermaniac and the suicidal junior clerk.1956Sun (Baltimore) 14 June (ed. B) 16/2 They think that people who support the provision of some military aid to our allies are ‘soft’ and afflicted with ‘squandermania’.1976Times 16 Aug. 11/5 Sheer ‘squander-mania’..has currently invaded our society.

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