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Phrase: When cash money ends, we will be in dire straits, and at the complete mercy of the powerful
Meaning: I am an atheist, but the following Latin words describe that situation: In nomine patris, et filii, et spiritus sancti. In other words, it will be the second coming, and Satan (= oligarchs, banks, corrupt politicians...) will rule. Or to put it mildly, freedom will be a thing of the past.
Sent by Miquel Molina
Date: 26-03-2021
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Phrase: What is the damage?
Meaning: This is said when you are expecting to pay a lot for something, and it means how much it costs.
Example:
-What is the damage?
-Ten thousand dollars.
Date: 03-08-2020
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Phrase: An arm and a leg
Meaning: If something costs an am and a leg, it is very expensive. Example: This necklace costs an arm and a leg, but it is so beautiful.
Date: 24-11-2017
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Phrase: Be in arrears
Meaning: It means that somebody has skipped one or more payments or owes money: We are (four months) in arrears with/on those payments.
Date: 25-09-2017
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Phrase: A grand
Meaning: One thousand dollars or pounds:
That bike cost me a grand.
I paid two grand for that old blunderbuss. (Compare the previous sentence with the following one: I paid two thousand bucks/dollars/smackers for that old blunderbuss.)
Date: 12-07-2015
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Phrase: All that glitters (or glisters) is not gold
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Phrase: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
Sent by Tony Western
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Phrase: Another day, another dollar
Meaning: Life continues
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Phrase: Beggars cannot be choosers
Sent by Anuradha Rao
Email: anu919@hotmail.com
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Phrase: Beggars don't have any choice
Sent by Rahul Sharma
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Phrase: Business is business
Meaning: When you make business, it may not be a good idea that you are influenced by things such as friendship if you do not want to lose your money: I am a banker, and cannot give you the loan, as you may not be able to repay it, and, you know, business is business
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Phrase: Design on a dime
Meaning: It is a television show... where you design a room for a minimal amount of money
Sent by Desiree Miller
Email: millerdes@comcast.net
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Phrase: Go from rags to riches
Meaning: If someone goes from rags to riches, he or she stops being poor, and becomes rich.
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Phrase: If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability
Author: Henry Ford
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Phrase: In for a penny, in for a pound
Meaning: If we have started something, we should finish it:
-I do not think it is a good idea to go on.
-We must go on, in for a penny, in for a pound.
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Phrase: In the red
Meaning: If someone is in the red, he or she owes more money than he or she has. The opposite is in the black.
Examples:
I can lend you any money because I am in the red. Ask Martha. I am sure she will be in the black.
My bank account is in the red, so I cannot spend any money until next month.
This is the first time in ten years that my bank account has been in the black.
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Phrase: Look after the pennies and the pounds will take care of (or look after) themselves
Take care of all the pennies, and the pounds will look after themselves
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Phrase: Money for old rope (or for jam)
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Phrase: Money talks
Meaning: Money is probably the most powerful thing in the world. It opens a lot of doors. It even kills.
Example:
Do not worry. Money talks. You will have what you want.
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Phrase: Not to be able to make ends meet
Meaning: Not to have enough income to survive.
Examples:
We can't make both ends meet with 500 pounds a month.
My husband is unemployed, and we find it very hard to make ends meet. Occasionally, we have had to beg.
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Phrase: Not to have a penny to somebody's name
Meaning: To be very poor: John does not have a penny to his name, so he cannot lend you money.
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Phrase: Not to have two pennies to rub together
Meaning: To be very poor: Martha does not have two pennies to rub together, so that house cannot be hers.
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Phrase: Put in your two cents' worth
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Phrase: Spend money like water
Meaning: To squander or waste money.
Example:
My sister has a well-paid job, but she spends money like water, and says that she find it very difficult to make both ends meet.
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Phrase: Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free
Sent by Miss kathy
Email: krusann@yahoo.com
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