1.[countableC]MONEY a piece of metal, usually flat and round, that is used as money 硬币 → bill, note► see thesaurus at money
2toss/flip a coinDECIDEto choose or decide something by throwing a coin into the air and guessing which side of it will show when it falls 抛硬币作选择[决定]
Toss a coin to see who goes first.
抛硬币决定谁先来。
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toss/flip a coin• If memoryserves, we actually went into the hall and flipped a coin.• We like to get out a map, and flip a coin to decide where to go.• I tossed a coin with Bill Wall for this, and won.• Like tossing a coin to decide on a man's life.• Eddie DeBartolo and Carmen Policy: Flip a coin.• Torn between passing the letter to Alice or Amelia, Robert tossed a coin and settled on the latter.• The customer wanted to flip a coin about paying the price for a photo of his daughter.• Given those odds, claims Salsburg, one might as well flip a coin.
3the other/opposite side of the coinOPPOSITE/REVERSEa different or opposite way of thinking about something 事情的另一面
Making the rules is only part of it. How the rules are carried out is the other side of the coin.
制定规定只是一方面,如何执行规定又是另一方面。
4two sides of the same coinCONNECTED WITHtwo problems or situations that are so closely connected that they are really just two parts of the same thing 同一事情密切相关的两个方面
Great opportunity and great danger are two sides of the same coin.
1INVENTto invent a new word or expression, especially one that many people start to use 创造,杜撰〔新词或短语〕
The word ‘aromatherapy’ was coined in the 1920s.
(芳香疗法)这个词是在20世纪20年代创造出来的。
2to coin a phrasespokenUSE something said in a joking way when you use a very commonexpression, to show that you know it is used a lot 套句老话说,常言说得好
He’d thought the flight would never – to coin a phrase – get off the ground.
他以为这趟航班是永远也不会——套句老话说——离地起飞了。
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to coin a phrase• He was going to have fun if it killed him, to coin a phrase.• I had to find out the hard way - to coin a phrase.• It is an oddsidelight, to coin a phrase, on road accidents.• Miller was trying to help his career and, to coin a phrase, snatchvictory from the jaws of defeat.
3coin money/coin it (in)EARNBritish EnglishBrE informal to earn a lot of money very quickly 大发其财,暴富
BT at its profitable peak was coining it at the rate of £90 a second.