单词 | save-all |
例句 | In the 1960s, for example, “concrete was seen as the great save-all — it’s taken years to remove old restorations,” said Antonio Varone, a former director of the excavations at Pompeii. Undoing the Ruins Once Wrought by Vesuvius 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z As significant an improvement as it would be, a public option is still not a save-all for our health-care system. Private Insurance Companies Are Destroying Affordable Health Care 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z D Dairy, the business of, generally carried on as a save-all, 96. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 2011-12-05T03:00:41.403Z Under every lamp stands a sort of “save-all,” consisting of a small skin basket for catching the oil that falls over. Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage All candles, whatever their material, were carefully used by the economical colonists to the last bit by a little wire frame of pins and rings called a save-all. Home Life in Colonial Days Under every lamp stands a sort of "save-all," consisting of a small skin basket for catching the oil that falls over. Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2 For this reason the trough into which it falls from the revolving "wire" is called the "save-all." A Book of Exposition A prayer-book, which he seldom handles A save-all and two farthing candles. The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 Economy -- N. economy, frugality; thrift, thriftiness; care, husbandry, good housewifery, savingness†, retrenchment. savings; prevention of waste, save-all; cheese parings and candle ends; parsimony &c. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases |
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