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LONG GREEN

Traducere în limba română

long green substantiv

(amer. sl.) bani de hârtie.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Away they drove down the long green glade—bay horses, black and gray, riders clad in every shade of velvet, fur, or silk, with glint of brazen horn and flash of knife and spear.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was a soldier before the door, dressed in a green uniform and wearing a long green beard.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

I remember the fur coats of the girls returning from Miss This or That's and the chatter of frozen breath and the hands waving overhead as we caught sight of old acquaintances and the matchings of invitations: Are you going to the Ordways'? the Herseys'? the Schultzes'? and the long green tickets clasped tight in our gloved hands.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

In the space within the horse-shoe, lower than these, that is to say, on about the level of the floor, were sundry other gentlemen, of Mr. Spenlow's rank, and dressed like him in black gowns with white fur upon them, sitting at a long green table.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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