lombard street to a china orange
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.98 in modern English
38
Scrabble Score
27
Letters
6
Syllables
15
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "As Jorrocks expressed it, in the event of such a catastrophe happening, “It was all Lombard Street to a China orange we’d lose the number of our mess and sarve as food for fishes!”"
- "The odds, too, are against a drunkard's reformation; all Lombard Street to a China orange."
- "Mora has been a favourite recreation with these people almost from their cradles, and he would be a bold man indeed who would venture to challenge a Torrese at this game, for the native's skill and experience are almost bound to tell eventually in his favour, and the odds are "Lombard Street to a China orange" against the outside player."
- "Of course he was still sneered at by many as a mere poseur; it still seemed to be all Lombard Street to a china orange that he would be beaten down under the myriad trampling feet of middle-class indifference and disdain."
- "It looked the proverbial Lombard Street to a china orange that he must be run down and killed. By a superlatively skilful piece of driving, the bus-driver just managed to avoid him[.]"
Etymology
* Lombard Street as a metonym for all the money in British banks. A China orange as something of trifling value.