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The money in your pocket | | more Lingo | |
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- Dosh, dough, wedge - These are informal terms for money.
- A
fiver
, A
tenner
. - £5, £10
- Twenty
quid - £20
- A
ton - £100
- A
grand - £1,000
- Loose change - coins
- I've only got a few coppers. - I only have a few 2p and 1p coins.
- Plastic - credit/debit cards
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Having a lot | | |
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- She's
loaded
. She's
stinking rich
. - She's got lots of money.
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Trustafarians - People who receive money from their family or an allowance; the word is a play on Rastafarian (a believer in a religion which originated in Jamaica).
- I'll buy you dinner, I'm
cashed up tonight! - I've got plenty of money!
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Not having any | | |
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- I'm
skint / broke
.
I haven't got a penny
. - I haven't got any money!
- I'm
a bit short this month. - I don't have much money till I get paid.
- I can't
afford it! - It's too expensive for me, I don't have enough money.
- I've reached my
credit limit. - I can't spend any more money on my credit cards.
- He lost his job last year and had to
sign on
. /
go on the dole
. - He's now out of work and receiving financial help from the government. [If you sign on, you go to a government office and sign a form each fortnight to declare you are available for work.]
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People who don't like spending it | | |
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- He never buys
a round
; he's really
tight. / tight fisted. / stingy. - That guy never buys drinks for other people - he's mean / ungenerous.
- He opened his wallet and
a moth flew out
! - He rarely spends his money. [Moths tend to live in clothes which don't get used very often - so someone mean never opens his / her wallet!]
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Some phrases | | |
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- That piano's
worth a fortune
! - That piano is worth a lot of money.
- It cost
an arm and a leg! - It cost a lot of money.
- They get paid
peanuts
! - They get paid badly.
- That restaurant's a real
rip-off
! - That restaurant overcharges; it doesn't represent value for money.
- They don't have
two pennies to rub together
. - They are very poor.
- The business went
bust. - The business was declared bankrupt.
- That last bill completely
cleaned me out
! - That bill used up all of my money.
- I'm skint. I
blewmy salary on a new hi-fi. - I've spent all my wages.
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| | Lingo Challenge | | |
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Try using as many of these phrases as you can in a one-minute conversation! How many will you manage to use? Have fun!
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