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| id | category | idiom | description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3801 | Money | Golden handshake | A golden handshake is a payment made to someone to get them to leave their job. |
| 3802 | Money | Golden rule | The golden rule is the most essential or fundamental rule associated with something. Originally, it was not a general reference to an all purpose first rule applicable to many groups or protocols, but referred to a verse in the Bible about treating people they way you would want them to treat you, which was considered the First Rule of behavior towards all by all. |
| 3803 | Money | Golden touch | Someone with a golden touch can make money from or be successful at anything they do. |
| 3804 | Money | Good as gold | If children are as good as gold, they behave very well. |
| 3805 | Money | Heart of gold | Someone with a heart of gold is a genuinely kind and caring person. |
| 3806 | Money | If I had a nickel for every time | (USA) When someone uses this expression, they mean that the specific thing happens a lot. It is an abbreviation of the statement If I had a nickel for every time that happened, I would be rich |
| 3807 | Money | Ill-gotten gains | Ill-gotten gains are profits or benefits that are made either illegally or unfairly. |
| 3808 | Money | In for a penny, in for a pound | If something is worth doing then it is a case of in for a penny, in for a pound, which means that when gambling or taking a chance, you might as well go the whole way and take all the risks, not just some. |
| 3809 | Money | It cost the earth | If something costs the earth, it is very expensive indeed. |
| 3810 | Money | License to print money | A license to print money is something that generates a large income without much effort. |
| 3811 | Money | Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves | (UK) If you look after the pennies, the pounds will look after themselves, meaning that if someone takes care not to waste small amounts of money, they will accumulate capital. (Look after the pence and the pounds will look after themselves is an alternative form of this idiom.) |
| 3812 | Money | Made of money | If you are made of money, you have a lot of money. |
| 3813 | Money | Make a killing | If you make a killing, you do something that makes you a lot of money. |
| 3814 | Money | Make a mint | If someone is making a mint, they are making a lot of money. |
| 3815 | Money | Make ends meet | If somebody finds it hard to make ends meet, they have problems living on the money they earn. |
| 3816 | Money | Make money hand over fist | If you make money hand over fist, you make a lot of money without any difficulty. |
| 3817 | Money | Mint condition | If something is in mint condition, it is in perfect condition. |
| 3818 | Money | Money burns a hole in your pocket | If someone has money burning a hole in their pocket, they are eager to spend it, normally in a wasteful manner. |
| 3819 | Money | Money doesn`t grow on trees | This means that you have to work to earn money; it doesnt come easily or without effort. |
| 3820 | Money | Money for jam | If somethings money for jam, its a very easy way of making money. |
| 3821 | Money | Money for old rope | (UK) If somethings money for old rope, its a very easy way of making money. |
| 3822 | Money | Money laundering | If people launder money, they get money made illegally into the mainstream so that it is believed to be legitimate and clean. |
| 3823 | Money | Money makes many things | This means that money is important. |
| 3824 | Money | Money talks | This means that people can convey many messages with money, and many things can be discovered about people by observing the way they use their money. |
| 3825 | Money | Money to burn | If someone is very rich, they have money to burn. |
| 3826 | Money | More bang for your buck | (USA) Something that will give you more bang for your buck will deliver more value than any other option. |
| 3827 | Money | Nickel tour | (USA) If someone gives you a nickel tour, they show you around a place. (Fifty-cent tour is also used.) |
| 3828 | Money | Not have two nickels to rub together | (USA) If a person doesnt have two nickels to rub together, they are very poor. |
| 3829 | Money | Not have two pennies to rub together | If someone hasnt got two pennies to rub together, they are very poor indeed. |
| 3830 | Money | Not worth a red cent | (USA) If something is not worth a red cent, it has no value. |
| 3831 | Money | On the knock | (UK) If you buy something on the knock, you pay for it in instalments. |
| 3832 | Money | On the money | If you are on the money, you are right about something. |
| 3833 | Money | On the never-never | (UK) If you buy something on the never-never, you buy it on long-term credit. |
| 3834 | Money | One man's trash is another man's treasure | What is useless to one person might be valuable to another. |
| 3835 | Money | Other side of the coin | The other side of the coin is a different, usually opposing, view of a situation. (Flip side of the coin is an alternative.) |
| 3836 | Money | Out of your own pocket | If someone does something out of their own pocket, they pay all the expenses involved. |
| 3837 | Money | Pay on the nail | If you pay on the nail, you pay promptly in cash. |
| 3838 | Money | Pay the piper | When you pay the piper, you have to accept the consequences of something that you have done wrong or badly. |
| 3839 | Money | Pay your dues | If you have paid your dues, you have had your own struggles and earned your place or position. |
| 3840 | Money | Pennies on the dollar | (USA) If something is pennies on the dollar, its much cheaper than it |
| 3841 | Money | Penny ante | (USA) Something that is very unimportant is penny ante. |
| 3842 | Money | Penny pincher | A penny pincher is a mean person or who is very frugal. |
| 3843 | Money | Penny wise, pound foolish | Someone who is penny wise, pound foolish can be very careful or mean with small amounts of money, yet wasteful and extravagant with large sums. |
| 3844 | Money | Pick up the tab | A person who pays for everyone picks up the tab. |
| 3845 | Money | Pin money | (UK) If you work for pin money, you work not because you need to but because it gives you money for extra little luxuries and treats. |
| 3846 | Money | Pink pound | (UK) In the UK, the pink pound is an idiom for the economic power of gay people. |
| 3847 | Money | Quick buck | If you make some money easily, you make a quick buck. |
| 3848 | Money | Quids in | (UK) If somebody is quids in, they stand to make a lot of money from something. |
| 3849 | Money | Rags to riches | Someone who starts life very poor and becomes rich goes from rags to riches. |
| 3850 | Money | Rich man's family | A rich mans family consists of one son and one daughter. |
| 3851 | Money | Rolling in money | If someone has a lot of money, more than |
| 3852 | Money | Rough diamond | A rough diamond is a person who might be a bit rude but who is good underneath it all. |
| 3853 | Money | Scot free | If someone escapes scot free, they avoid payment or punishment. Scot is an old word for a tax, so it originally referred to avoiding taxes, though now has a wider sense of not being punished for someone that you have done. |
| 3854 | Money | Short-change | If you are short-changed, someone cheats you of money or doesnt give you full value for something. |
| 3855 | Money | Show me the money | When people say this, they either want to know how much they will be paid for something or want to see evidence that something is valuable or worth paying for. |
| 3856 | Money | Sixty-four-thousand-dollar-question | The sixty-four-thousand-dollar-question is the most important question that can be asked about something. |
| 3857 | Money | Sound as a pound | (UK) if something is as sound as a pound, it is very good or reliable. |
| 3858 | Money | Spend a penny | (UK) This is a euphemistic idiom meaning to go to the toilet. |
| 3859 | Money | Spend like a sailor | Someone who spends their money wildly spends like a sailor. |
| 3860 | Money | Spoil the ship for a ha'pworth of tar | (UK) If someone spoils the ship for a hapworth (halfpennys worth) of tar, they spoil something completely by trying to make a small economy. |
| 3861 | Money | Square Mile | (UK) The Square Mile is the City, the financial area of London. |
| 3862 | Money | Stop on a dime | (USA) If something like a vehicle stops on a dime, it stops very quickly and accurately. |
| 3863 | Money | Take someone to the cleaners | If someone is taken to the cleaners, they are cheated, defrauded or lose a lot of money. |
| 3864 | Money | Ten a penny | (UK) If something is ten a penny, it is very common. ("Two a penny" is also used.) |
| 3865 | Money | That and 50 cents will buy you a cup of coffee | (USA) This is used to describe something that is deemed worthless. "Hes got a Ph.D. in Philosophy." "So? That and 50 cents will buy you a cup of coffee." |
| 3866 | Money | The penny dropped | When the penny drops, someone belatedly understands something that everyone else has long since understood. |
| 3867 | Money | Treasure trove | Something of great value or a very good source. |
| 3868 | Money | Turn up like a bad penny | If someone turns up like a bad penny, they go somewhere where they are not wanted. |
| 3869 | Money | Two cents | If you add or throw in your two cents, you give your opinion on an issue. |
| 3870 | Music | And all that jazz | This idiom means that everything related or similar is included. |
| 3871 | Music | Bells on | (USA) To be somewhere with bells on means to arrive there happy and delighted to attend. |
| 3872 | Music | Blow your own horn | If you blow your own horn, you boast about your achievements and abilities. (Blow your own trumpet is an alternative form.) |
| 3873 | Music | Blow your own trumpet | If someone blows their own trumpet, they boast about their talents and achievements.? (Blow your own horn is an alternative form.) |
| 3874 | Music | Call the tune | The person who calls the tune makes the important decisions about something. |
| 3875 | Music | Change your tune | If someone changes their ideas or the way they talk about them, they change their tune. |
| 3876 | Music | Clear as a bell | If something is as clear as a bell, it is very clear or easy to understand. |
| 3877 | Music | Face the music | If you have to face the music, you have to accept the negative consequences of something you have done wrong. |
| 3878 | Music | Fiddle while Rome burns | If people are fiddling while Rome burns, they are wasting their time on futile things while problems threaten to destroy them. |
| 3879 | Music | Fine tuning | Small adjustments to improve something or to get it working are called fine tuning. |
| 3880 | Music | Fit as a fiddle | If you are fit as a fiddle, you are in perfect health. |
| 3881 | Music | For a song | If you buy or sell something for a song, it is very cheap. |
| 3882 | Music | Hit the right note | If you hit the right note, you speak or act in a way that has a positive effect on people.(Strike the right note is also used.) |
| 3883 | Music | It takes two to tango | This idiom is used to suggest that when things go wrong, both sides are involved and neither side is completely innocent. |
| 3884 | Music | March to the beat of your own drum | If people march to the beat of their own drum, they do things the way they want without taking other people into consideration. |
| 3885 | Music | Music to my ears | If something someone says is music to your ears, it is exactly what you had wanted to hear. |
| 3886 | Music | Play by ear | If you play by ear, you deal with something in an impromptu manner, without guidelines or rules. It refers to playing music without using written notation. |
| 3887 | Music | Play second fiddle | If you play second fiddle, you take a subordinate role behind someone more important. |
| 3888 | Music | Pull out all the stops | If you pull out all the stops, you do everything you possibly can to achieve the result you want. |
| 3889 | Music | See you on the big drum | A good night phrase to children. |
| 3890 | Music | Strike a chord | If strikes a chord, it is familiar to you, reminds you of something or is connected to you somehow. |
| 3891 | Music | Toot you own horn | If someone toot their own horn, they like to boast about their achievements. |
| 3892 | Music | Whistle for it | If someone says that you can whistle for something, they are determined to ensure that you dont get it. |
| 3893 | Music | Whistle-stop tour | A whistle-stop tour is when someone visits a number of places quickly, not stopping for long. |
| 3894 | Music | Whistling Dixie | (USA) If someone is whistling Dixie, they talk about things in a more positive way than the reality. |
| 3895 | Music | Whistling in the dark | If someone is whistling in the dark, they believe in a positive result, even though everybody else is sure it will not happen. |
| 3896 | Music | You can't unring a bell | This means that once something has been done, you have to live with the consequences as it cant be undone. |
| 3897 | Nationality or ethnicity | An Englishman's home is his castle | (UK) This means that what happens in a persons home or |
| 3898 | Nationality or ethnicity | Chinese walls | Chinese walls are regulatory information barriers that aim to stop the flow of information that could be misused, especially in financial corporations. |
| 3899 | Nationality or ethnicity | Chinese whispers | (UK) When a story is told from person to person, especially if it is gossip or scandal, it inevitably gets distorted and exaggerated. This process is called Chinese whispers. |
| 3900 | Nationality or ethnicity | Double Dutch | (UK) If something is double Dutch, it is completely incomprehensible. |
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