five-and-ten
五加一,五加十,五零,五十
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- : Also called five-and-ten-cent store [fahyv-uhn-ten-sent], /ˈfaɪv ənˈtɛnˌsɛnt/, five-and-dime [fahyv-uhn-dahym], /ˈfaɪv ənˈdaɪm/, dime store, ten-cent store. a store offering a wide assortment of inexpensive items, formerly costing five or ten cents, for personal and household use.
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- : of, relating to, or characteristic of a five-and-ten.
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As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
“It was Stephen Hawking and five other Nobel laureates,” Krauss recalled.
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In less than ten minutes, the bivouac was broken up, and our little army on the march.
I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.
Ten minutes later, veiled and cloaked, she stepped out alone into the garden.
The clock struck ten, and clerks poured in faster than ever, each one in a greater perspiration than his predecessor.
Five of the number had studied with Liszt before, and the young men are artists already before the public.