brummagem meaning in English
adj.
〔口语〕
1.(珠宝、钱币等)假的，冒充的。
2.(装饰品等)花哨而便宜的。
n.
便宜货；假珠〔从擅长制造假珠宝等的城市 Birmingham 的转讹〕。
Examples
- Most people … cared nothing about birmingham , which they had heard of only as a dirty place where most of the bad pennies ( brummagem buttons ) come from
许多人… …都不喜欢伯明翰，他们只知道它是个藏圬纳垢的城市，大部分的假钱都是从那里来的。 - Brummagem england was toppling already and her downfall would be ireland , her achilles heel , which he explained to them about the vulnerable point of achilles , the greek hero - a point his auditors at once seized as he completely gripped their attention by showing the tendon referred to on his boot
爱尔兰将是它的阿戏留的脚踵。 ”他又就希腊英雄阿戏留那易受伤害的部位为他们做了一番解释152 。由于他隔着靴子指了指腱在哪儿，就完全吸引了听众的注意，从而大家也立即恍然大悟了。