for keeps

介词短语

英文释义

介词短语
  1. With an agreement or intention to retain what one gains or receives.
    — When we gamble at poker, we play for keeps.
  2. With a strong competitive resolve to win or succeed, as in sports or business. broadly,idiomatic
    — "We both got a job to do. They play for keeps and we play for keeps too," Haggans said.
  3. Permanently, so that one can keep something indefinitely.
    — The Griswold trophy was presented to its winner, for keeps, since it was the third time she had won it.

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