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词汇	g-note
词源	g-note. A thousand-dollar bill, the term first recorded in a 1930 Damon Runyon short story. In Guys and Dolls (1932), Runyon wrote: “I am going o stake them to a few G’s.” G here is short for a grand (qv).
随便看	playing the race card playing to the haircuts play one-s cards close to the chest play on words play penny pool play possum play the dozens play the field play the market play the sedulous ape play to the gallery play to the grandstand play with loaded dice play without a full deck plaza pleach pleased as a basketful of possum heads please tell me you’re republicans plentiful as blackberries plimp plimsoll mark plimsolls plosh to a callow thistle plot hound plough monday

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