pay for one's whistle

pay for one's whistle

• 出高价买无价值的小东西；由于一时兴趣而付出很大代价；得不偿失[亦作 pay too dear for one's whistle]

• general linguistics
• dress-conscious
• cupcakes
• Kentish rag
• shammy
• Beauharnais, Josephine de
• interstrain
• hittinger
• retrained
• gilling
• timelessnesses
• stational
• stowaway
• locustae
• Yizkors
• infelicities
• Johnny Crapaud,Johnny Crapeau
• lay back
• stand by
• pneumolysis
• as strong as brandy
• (have) a life of its own
• five-spot / ten-spot etc
• pinery
• Babars
• lavation
• lissomeness
• swab up
• G. & T.
• testoon
• jokily
• work surface
• out-of-pocket expenses
• ice-blues
• wistful
• Euro-African
• annunciations
• a call to arms
• spectacularism
• MacNeice, Louis
• syntheses
• nailrod
• glassy-eyeds
• psgr.
• souses
• limen
• kick the habit
• plough around
• judicature
• dead from the neck up
• inductivity
• beluga
• fair-minded
• compulsive behavio(u)r
• deoxycytidine
• Muscovy duck
• open-date
• fish for
• occupied bandwidth
• depth
• arrestee
• frump
• apocalypse
• tuart
• catabolise
• feel like a fighting cock
• landscape architect
• veil of mist / cloud / smoke etc
• induced fit
• sacrednesses
• in all likelihood
• excider
• active file
• knee
• area search
• lose credit with
• restrictionary
• expensiveness
• straight beam
• ignition key
• cyaneous
• nsas
• frangible
• rimation
• fatigued
• plebs
• easy as could be
• snuggles
• Omagh
• task programmer
• if ever there was one
• like bricks
• separatories
• org
• embezzlers
• curr
• effective thermal resistance
• LU
• conductional
• transobuoy