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at the expense of someone idiom(alsoat someone's expense) C2 making another person look silly: 捉弄,戏弄;拿…开心 Would you stop making jokes at my expense?你别再拿我开玩笑了,好不好? SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Damaging and spoiling adulterant adulterate adulterated adulteration applecart butcher dry rot eat eat away at something erode flaw foul queer rain on someone's paradeidiom rampage ravage ravages seismic sour wreck
at the expense of something idiom C1 If you do one thing at the expense of another, doing the first thing harms the second thing: 以…为代价,在…受损的情况下 He had no need to protect their reputation at the expense of his own.他没有必要为了保护他们的名誉而牺牲自己的。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Damaging and spoiling adulterant adulterate adulterated adulteration applecart butcher dry rot eat eat away at something erode flaw foul queer rain on someone's paradeidiom rampage ravage ravages seismic sour wreck
at the expense of someone | American Dictionary
at the expense of someone idiom(alsoat someone's expense) in a way that embarrasses or harms someone: They all had a good laugh at her expense.
at the expense of something idiom resulting in the loss of something: Do we really want to speed the process up at the expense of safety?
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