Tuesday, February 24, 2009

8. Phrases for Money

A buck fifty, A buck well spent ( Springmaid Sheets ), A fool and his money are soon parted, A glass and a half of milk in every pound ( Cadbury's Dairy Milk ), A head for business and a body for sin, A pot of gold Adobe dollar, All over him like a cheap suit, All part of life's rich pattern, All part of life's rich tapestry All that glisters is not gold Almighty dollar An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure Another day, another dollar Ante up Art, with a capital F As bold as brass As cheap as dirt As good as gold As rich as Croesus As safe as the Bank of England Baby You're A Rich Man Bad penny Bear market Bet your bottom dollar Big bang Bill Stickers is innocent Bill and coo Bill for our barbecues Black economy Black market Blood money Born with a silver spoon in his mouth Bought and paid for Brass In Pockets Brass tacks Bread and butter Bread and circuses Bread of life Break bread Break the bank Brown bread Buck house Buck naked Buck up Buck up your ideas Bull market Burning a hole in your pocket Business Is Beautiful ( Sprint ) Business as usual Business at hand Business end Business need Business partner Business plan Business to business Buy British Buy Opera today And make this banner go away Buy and sell Buy blind Buy into Buy it Sell it Love it ( eBay ) Buy now pay later Buy one, get one free Buy some time Buy the farm Buy time Buy to let Can't Buy Me Love Capital gains Carry the cost Cash cow Cash for questions Cash for trash Cash if you die, cash if you don't ( Lloyd's Life Insurance ) Cash in hand Cash in your cheques Cash in your chips Cash on the barrelhead Cashing in Cashing up Cast your bread upon the waters Cheap and cheerful Cheap and nasty Cheap at half the price Cheap date Cheap drunk Cheap is cheap Cheap shot Cheap skate Cheaper by the dozen Chequebook journalism Chip and charge Chump change Chunk of change Clean bill of health Cleaned out Coffee at its best ( Nescafe‚ Gold Blend ) Coin a phrase Coin of the realm Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey Compare notes Cool million Cost a pretty penny Cost an arm and a leg Cost cutting Cost effective Cost the earth Cottage economy Count the cost Creative accounting Crock of gold Cross my palm with silver Crying all the way to the bank ( Liberace ) Cut a cheque Day late and a dollar short Dead presidents Dirt cheap Disaster capitalism Do the business Do your business Doing a land-office business Doing a sterling job Earn an honest penny Easy money Economic downturn Economic refugee Economy class syndrome Economy drive Embarrassment of riches Even money Every dark cloud has a silver lining Every little helps Eye it, try it, buy it ( Chevrolet ) Fast buck Feed the meter Feel 95 point great ( Capital FM ) Fill the bill Filthy lucre Filthy rich First relationships last ( First National Bank of Chicago ) Fit the bill Five figures Folding money Fool and his money are soon parted Fool's gold Foot the bill For my, money Fork out Four figures From rags to riches Front money Funny money Get Rich quick ( Kenco Really Rich Coffee ) Get down to brass tacks Get down to business Get rich quick Get your money's worth Glove money Go about your business Go for gold Gold digger Golden handshake Golden hello Golden parachute Grease your palm Half a loaf is better than no bread Hand to mouth Hard cash Hard times Hard up Have your bread buttered on both sides He knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing Health, wealth and happiness Heart of gold Hedge fund Hit me on the hip Hit the high notes Hiyo Silver away ( The Lone Ranger ) Hold the purse strings Hole in the wall Hot money Hush money I'd like to buy the world a Coke I'm in charge ( Bruce Forsyth ) I'm not made of money Idle rich If life were like that, you wouldn't need a VISA card If you have to ask the price you can't afford it In for a penny in for a pound In the bank In the money Is your film as good as Gold? ( Kodak Gold ) It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God It won't break the bank It's the economy stupid King's ransom Know which side your bread is buttered Knowledge economy Land office business Laugh all the way to the bank Let's see the colour of your money License to print money Like nobody's business Liquid assets Loaf of bread Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves Loose change Love of money is the root of all evil Mad money Man does not live by bread alone Mattress money Maxwell's Silver Hammer Meet the bill Mind your own business Minimum wage Mixed economy Money back guarantee Money doesn't grow on trees Money doesn't talk, it swears Money for old rope Money is no object Money is the root of all evil Money makes the world go round Money spinner Money talks Money to burn Monkey business More bangs for your buck More money than sense My flexible friend New money Not a cough in a carload ( Old Gold Cigarettes ) Not a penny to bless yourself with, Not many of them to the pound Nowt taken out ( Allinsons bread ) Old money On the cheap On the money Out of pocket Owe a favour Owe it to yourself Paid up Pass the buck Pay the piper Pay your way Pennies from Heaven Penny Lane Penny for your thoughts Penny pinching Penny saved is a penny earned Penny wise, pound foolish Pieces of eight Pile it high and sell it cheap Pin money Pink pound Plastic money Poor little rich girl Pork barrel spending Pound for pound Pound of flesh Pound the pavement Pretty penny Profit margin Pump your money back into Canada ( Petro Canada, early ) Put bread on the table Put paid to Put your hand in your pocket Put your money on the Favorit ( Skoda Favorit ) Put your money where your mouth is Quick buck Quid pro quo Rags to riches Raise a loan Rake in the money Rake it in Reap the rewards of Money ( Money Magazine ) Redistribution of wealth Rich man poor man beggerman thief Right on the money Risky business Road to riches Run for your money See a penny and pick it up See the face you love light up with Terry's All Gold ( Terrys Chocolates ) Seed money Seeing small business differently ( SBC Communications ) Selling the family silver Serious money Shell out Shopping spree Short change Show me the money ( Jerry Maguire ) Silver bullet Silver circle Silver service Silver surfer Silver threads amongst the gold Silver tongued Silver wedding Six figures Small fortune Solo pound Spend a penny Spend money like water Spend more time with my family Spend the night with Spend, spend, spend Star of the silver screen Stealth wealth Sticker shock Stinking rich Stony broke Stop me and buy one Strapped for cash Strictly business Strike it rich Sugar daddy Take a bath Take care of business Take home pay Take the money and run Take the money, open the box Take the shilling Talk is cheap Ten a penny That's rich The Gold Rush The Gold Standard The Listening Bank ( Midland Bank ) The Old Bill The bank that likes to say Yes ( Trustee Savings Bank ) The best that money can buy The best thing since sliced bread The bottom line is the bottom line is the bottom line The buck stops here ( Harry S Truman ) The business The business of America is business The cheque is in the post The green stuff The money shot The other side of the coin The penny drops The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow The pound in your pocket The public purse The rich get richer and the poor get poorer The sixty-four thousand dollar question The streets of London are paved with gold The unacceptable face of capitalism The world's local bank ( HSBC ) There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard There's gold in them thar hills There's no business like show business This line of business This precious stone set in the silver sea, this sceptered isle Thousands of possibilities, get yours ( Best Buy ) Throw your money around Tidy sum Time is money To save and invest, talk to Natwest ( Natwest Bank ) Too Much Monkey Business Top dollar Trouble with a capital T True to you ( Julius B„r Private Bank ) Turn On The Fun ( Best Buy ) Two buck chuck Value for money Visa's Delta blow to cheques ( Visa Delta Debit Card ) Wage war We make money the old fashioned way, we earn it ( Smith Barney ) We mean business Well off What will you do with all the money you save? ( Toyota ) What's in your wallet? ( Capital One ) Where there's muck there's brass White bread Why buy the cow when the milk is free? With a hearty hiho Silver With brass knobs on With you, all the way ( State Bank of India ) Working capital Worth one's weight in gold Would you buy a used car from this man? Wrong, with a capital R You can bank on it You can take that to the bank You can't take it with you You don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's Rye Bread ( Levy's Rye Bread ) You pay your money and you take your choice Your money or your life Zombie funds