Idioms About Money

What does "money burns a hole in my pocket" mean?

• You feel that you need to spend your money at once.

• Go away and stop bothering me.

• a barrel of laughs, a lot of fun

• People who enjoy the same things, do the same things together

Cost an arm and a leg

• When someone finds it difficult to choose between two alternatives.

• When something is done badly to save money.

• This idiom is used when something is very expensive.

• This idiom is used to express "Don't make plans for something that might not happen".

My father worked hard all of his life (earning the family living).

• passing the buck

• paying through the nose

• stone broke

• bringing home the bacon

That man is (very rich) but he never likes to spend his money.

• cut-rate

• loaded

• cooking the books

• in the whole

The woman with the three children is having a difficult time to (pay her bills).

• make ends meet

• bet her bottom dollar

• feel like a million bucks

• make a bundle

to break even

• to make a profit higher than in the previous year

• to have no profit or loss at the end of a business activity

• to break something without leaving sharp edges

• to quit your business quickly before a crisis causes serious loss

"He promised to lower taxes if he got elected. Now let's see if he'll put his money where his mouth is." This idiom means:

• To spend as little money as possible

• People with a lot of money have a lot of power and influence.

• To mean what you say not just talking about it.

• To have a lot of money

Easy money means...

• money that you get with little effort

• a lot of money

• to waste money

My money is on ... means

• money well spent

• a place where you find money

• to bet on something, to think it will win

• correct, exactly

Pocket money... means

• easy money

• to waste money

• money earned with little effort

• money for day-to-day, incidental expenses