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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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