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Easy money   /ˈizi mˈəni/   Listen
Easy money

noun
1.
Income obtained with a minimum of effort.  Synonym: gravy train.
2.
The economic condition in which credit is easy to secure.






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"Easy money" Quotes from Famous Books



... Macomber was aiding the Belgians by running out in the big room to drum up the stragglers. She was now being Little Nugget, the Miners' Pet; and when she wasn't chasing in easy money she'd loll at one end of the bar with a leer on her flowerlike features to entice honest workingmen in to lose their all at the gaming tables. There was chuck-a-luck and a crap game going, and going every minute, too, with Cousin Egbert ...
— Somewhere in Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson

... could start a general practise; where the things I'd get would be accident cases, confinement cases; real things, urgent things, that night and day are all alike to. I'd like to start again and be poor; get this stink of easy money out of my nostrils. I'd like to see if I could make good on my own; have something I could look at and say, 'That's mine. I did that. I had to ...
— The Real Adventure • Henry Kitchell Webster

... eleven to the cafe for billiards. Deming was a good wielder of the cue. He said the Germans were too be-spectacled and blear-eyed to play well and by three o'clock he had usually won quite a number of marks. This was making "easy money." It went toward paying for his evening's entertainment and was good economy. His pleasure account would not look so large to his governor. At three, to his hotel for afternoon dress. Evenings it was some other form of diversion. Home at ...
— Villa Elsa - A Story of German Family Life • Stuart Henry



Words linked to "Easy money" :   tight money, financial condition, income



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