Chapter 5 money on paper

Dear Xiaowen: Grandma gave you five dollars on your ninth birthday. How did you spend it? Or did you hide it and become a money-mad? In the United States, one cent (cent) is called a penny, and one cent is called a penniless, which means "poor" and "poor". Turn an honest penny is legitimate money. Penny pincher is a miser (miser). Penny-wise and pound-foolish are "save small and spend big", "save small money and suffer big losses", "greed for small and lose big". A penny saved is a penny gained.It is "a penny saved is a penny earned". Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.It means "Pay attention to small money, and big money will pay attention to yourself", and it also means "Pay attention to small things, and big things will come on their own". Although a penny is a small amount of money, a pretty penny is a lot of money, such as Their car must have cost them a pretty penny. (their car must have cost them a fortune).

One point is five points, it is called nickel, also called jit or jitney, and there is also a ghost related to five points, called nickelnurser. It is called dime, and the shop selling cheap things is called "dime store", also known as five-and-dime, five-and-ten, five-and-ten-cent store, ten-cent store, "A dime a dozen" (a dime a dozen) means too ordinary, too much, and worthless, which is very close to the Chinese meanings of "vehicle bucket volume", "crossing the river's crucian carp", and "as many as a cow's hair". Actors are a dime a dozen in the city. It means "the amount of vehicles acting in the city".

Twenty-five cents is called twenty-five cents, which is a quarter of a dollar, so it is called quarter. There are three other words that are only used for counting, and there is no such dime: 1. Bit is half of twenty-five cents, 121/2cents 2. A short bit is equal to a dime 3. Long bit is equal to fifteen cents Fifty cents is called fifty cents, which means half dollar, half-dollar, haLf-buck, one dollar (dollar) is commonly known as many, and buck is the most commonly used. Buck is "buck", and the eyes of a buck are called buckeye, "oak tree" The fruit looks like this eye, so the oak tree is called buckeye. Ohio, the state where you live has the most oak trees, so the nickname is Buckeye State (Oak Tree State); and people born or living in this state have the nickname Buckeye, so you, Xiaowen is called Buckeye.

dad Morning of October 7, 1973 two Dear Xiaowen: There are pictures of American celebrities on the US dollar bills. How many do you know? One and twenty-five cents is the portrait of the first President, George Washington, who took a twenty-eight-year-old widow as his wife. The figure on the two pieces and five cents is the third President Thomas Jefferson, who asked a 24-year-old widow to be his wife. Five dollars (commonly known as fiver, five-spot) and one point are the 16th President Abraham Lincoln. He escaped at the wedding ceremony, but was captured by the woman after a while and got married later.The wife is a shrew (that is, tigress shrew, virago, vixen, tigress).

Ten dollars (commonly known as tenner, ten-spot, sawbuck) is the first Secretary of the Treasury Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton), he dueled with Jefferson's vice president (duel is duel, and agreeing to a duel is give satisfaction) and lost ,died. (Duels, most popular 150 years ago, are now illegal.) Twenty dollars is the seventh President Jackson (Andrew Jackson). He asked a estranged woman to be his wife, and he also fought a duel and won it. On the 50 yuan is the eighteenth President Grant (Ulysses S. Grant), a native of Ohio, born only forty miles away from Oxford, and a pig seller.

One hundred dollars (commonly known as the century) is a jack-of-all-trades and master of many Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin Franklin), his wife is an old lover who married someone else and returned, and is semi-literate; his son is loyal to the United Kingdom , is a royalist, against him. On the 500 yuan is the twenty-fifth President McKinley (William McKinley). His wife is mentally ill, but he treats her very well.He is also a native of Ohio (there were seven presidents in Ohio). One thousand dollars (commonly known as grand) is Grover Cleveland, who served as the 22nd and 24th presidents. When he was young, he had a child with a lady named Maria Halpin, but he was not married.When he later ran for the presidency, his political opponents used the tone of a child and made a slogan:

mom!mom!Where is my dad? Ma! Ma! Wheres my Pa? To the White House, ha, ha, ha! Gone to the White House, ha, ha, ha! But he is good, the common people say he is good, and he has run for two (not re-elected) presidents of the United States.Ninety years before he became president, one of his relatives built the largest city in the state of Ohio, Cleveland. dad Morning of October 7, 1973 P.S. Even writing two letters in the morning was "talking about money on paper", so rich! (Grandma received the letter on the 26th.)