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- Be closed-fisted : To be very stingy.
- Be pressed for money : To be very rich.
- Be rolling in money : When you have a lot of money.
- Live on a shoe string : To have a difficult life and have no money but not to show it to others.
- Easy come, easy go : When you earn money or something easily, you will miss it easily, too.
- Pay a heavy price for some thing : To defray a lot of money.
- Live beyond ones means : To spend money more than you have.
- Hit the jack pot : To earn a lot of money.
- Money for old rope : Convenient money.
- Make a fast / quick back : To earn money easily.
- He is asking an arm and leg for it : To ask money which is not your right.
- I paid cash on the nail : To pay money for sth with difficulty.
- Not have a bean = I am broke : I don’t have any money.
- A well-headed person : To be super rich.
∇ Phrasal verbs ⇓
∞ «rip off» ⇓ «bargain»
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• The hard-up … [badly-off]
If you lack the wherewithal or you ‘can’t make ends meet’, you may be ‘strapped for cash’ or, even worse, ‘penniless’: ‘broke’, ‘skint’, ‘busted’ … are slang synonyms; they all mean ‘bankrupt’, ‘poverty-stricken’.
• The well-off …
Wealthy people with loads of dough (or bread) are often called «moneybags». They ‘live on Easy Street’. A jocular way of referring to them: «filthy rich».
∞ Two opposite FALSE FRIENDS: they don’t mean what you think!
– EXTRAVAGANT = ‘spendthrift’, ‘squanderer’, ‘profligate’, ‘prodigal’
– PARSIMONIOUS = ‘mingy’, ‘stingy’ (adj), ‘scrooge’, ‘skinflint’ (n.)
¶ In times of economic stress . . .
… we go short (= do without things);
… we tighten our belts (=go hungry)
… we cut down on luxuries (=spend less on unessential things)
… we make do (=manage with whatever we can get)
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