a tidy sum/profit

informalPROFIT a large amount of money 一大笔钱/利润

We sold the house for a tidy sum and moved south.

我们把房子卖了一大笔钱，然后移居到南方。

Examples from the Corpus

a tidy sum/profit• In 1899, the mansion cost the tidy sum of $350,000.• Chief Auctioneer, Michael Welch, suggests that silver, brass or other trinkets could well fetch a tidy sum.• Even allowing for what they would have lost on laundering the proceeds, there should have been a tidy sum.• He has sold no less than five cars, each one at a tidy profit.• Nevertheless that blip was long enough for some one to make a tidy profit.• Would we be right in thinking, a tidy sum?• Until now they have made a tidy profit from selling re-issued pop hits from the fifties, sixties and seventies.• These represented a tidy sum, not a great fortune but enough for her to be comfortably off.• And, if my memory serves me right, you stand to rake in a tidy sum on that.

→ a tidy sum/profit at tidy1(1)

单词	a tidy sum/profit
释义	a tidy sum/profit a tidy sum/profit informalPROFIT a large amount of money 一大笔钱/利润 We sold the house for a tidy sum and moved south. 我们把房子卖了一大笔钱，然后移居到南方。 Examples from the Corpus a tidy sum/profit• In 1899, the mansion cost the tidy sum of $350,000.• Chief Auctioneer, Michael Welch, suggests that silver, brass or other trinkets could well fetch a tidy sum.• Even allowing for what they would have lost on laundering the proceeds, there should have been a tidy sum.• He has sold no less than five cars, each one at a tidy profit.• Nevertheless that blip was long enough for some one to make a tidy profit.• Would we be right in thinking, a tidy sum?• Until now they have made a tidy profit from selling re-issued pop hits from the fifties, sixties and seventies.• These represented a tidy sum, not a great fortune but enough for her to be comfortably off.• And, if my memory serves me right, you stand to rake in a tidy sum on that. → a tidy sum/profit at tidy1(1)
随便看	at the periphery at the periphery of at the periphery of something at the periphery of sth at the pit of stomach at the pit of your stomach at the push of a button at the ready at the receiving end at the receiving end of at the receiving end of something at the receiving end of sth at the risk of doing at the risk of doing something at the risk of doing sth at the same time at the time at the top/bottom of the heap at the top of game at the top of the agenda at the top of the heap at the top of the list at the top of your game at the touch of a button at the touch of a key