fruit and flowers

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Illicit purchased items such as recreational drugs or prostitutes. especially,euphemistic,jargon,plural,plural-only
    — Most journalists I know are actually rather scrupulous with their expenses – although I do know of one who tried to pass off one of their children's birthday parties as a networking opportunity (hats off!). However, I've been thinking of some of the things I might have been able to claim myself: getting my driving gloves dry-cleaned, for instance, medicinal single malts, ‘back rubs’ in foreign hotels, or that great music-industry euphemism, ‘fruit and flowers’.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fruit, flower. plural,plural-only

词源

Such illicit purchases might be explained away in a budget as spending on fruit and flowers.
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