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in earnest
serious(ly)认真的/地 Her parents thought the girl was joking when she said she wanted to be a scientist,but she was in earnest.这女孩说她想当一名科学家,她父母认为她是在开玩笑,但她却是认真的。 Surely you are not in earnest in saying that,are you?你说那话不是当真的,是吗? Did you say it in earnest?你那样讲是当真的吗?
A penny saved is a penny earned
Idiom(s): A penny saved is a penny earned
Theme: THRIFT
A proverb meaning that money saved through thrift is the same as money earned by employment. (Sometimes used to explain stinginess.) • "I didn't want to pay that much for the book," said Mary. "After all, a penny saved is a penny earned." • Bob put his money in a new bank that pays more interest than his old bank, saying, "A penny saved is a penny earned."
in earnest|earnest
adv. or adj. phr. Seriously; in a determined way. The beaver was building his dam in earnest.Bill did his homework in earnest. Often used like a predicate adjective. Sometimes used with "dead", for emphasis. Betty's friends thought she was joking when she said she wanted to be a doctor, but she was in dead earnest.
penny saved is a penny earned, a What one does not spend, one will have. This maxim for thrift is so familiar that it often appears in shortened form, as in Although they can afford to buy a house right now, they're putting it off, on the principle of “a penny saved.” It appeared in slightly different form in George Herbert's Outlandish Proverbs (1640). Whether or not it originally suggested that savings earn interest is not known.
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