Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Käännöksiä ei löytynyt valitulle kohdekielelle.
Yritit hakea fraasilla, joka sisältää useita sanoja. Parempien hakutulosten saamiseksi kokeile hakea sanoja erikseen: take, the, cash, and, let, the, credit, go
Määritelmät
Sanonnat
- Exploit and enjoy the opportunities and pleasures available here and now and do not invest effort pursuing prospective future gratifications.
Esimerkit
- "I will live my life, alone with the few people I find to my liking. I will take the cash and let the credit go."
- Why not "take the cash and let the credit go"? Why pursue the elusive theoretical "unification" any further, when what we daily get from our sciences is an increasing wealth of detailed information and of practical guidance?
- [N]o religious teacher was ever more opposed than Buddha in his scheme of salvation to every form of postponement and procrastination. He would have his followers take the cash and let the credit go—though the cash in this case is not the immediate pleasure but the immediate peace.
- William Harding Johnson, $15,000-a-year superintendent of Chicago's school system, has been content to take the cash and let the credit go. He has made good money by co-authoring textbooks for Chicago's schools and from his tutoring school for teachers.
- "Take the cash and let the credit go," as Villon said in 1460. But that is a mistake if the cash is a penny and the credit a whole lifetime.