Money Cliches
This page contains a list of common money-related cliches and sayings. It includes expressions like “another day another dollar”, “money doesn’t grow on trees”, and “a penny saved is a penny earned”. The page allows users to share images of the cliches on social media. It also features a quote about money at the bottom from Dana Gioia.
Overall, the page is collecting and presenting popular idioms and phrases related to earning, spending, and managing money.
Many money cliches originated from early trades and occupations. For example, “worth its weight in gold” referred to how valuable gold was historically. Over time, some cliches took on additional meanings or nuances.
For instance, “money doesn’t grow on trees” was originally just a statement of reality, but now sometimes suggests that one shouldn’t be frivolous with money.
In general, money cliches that involve farming, trades, or precious metals reflect how money was historically earned or valued.
Modern uses of these cliches don’t always retain the original literal meanings but still convey ideas about making, spending, or valuing money. The origins and meanings of some cliches have changed subtly over generations as economies and perspectives have changed.
- Another day another dollar
- As good as gold
- Bend over
- Benjamins
- Bet your bottom dollar
- Born with a silver spoon in his mouth
- Bring home the bacon
- Break the bank
- Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door
- Buy something for a song
- Cash cow
- Cash in your chips
- Champagne taste on a beer budget
- Clean bill of health
- Don’t bite the hand that feeds you
- Don’t have two nickels to rub together
- Go Dutch
- Filthy rich
- Flush
- Fool and his money are soon parted
- Fork out
- Got cleaned out
- Got crushed
- Gold digger
- Got spanked
- Grease a palm
- Haven’t got a penny to my name
- Heading for the poor house
- A King’s ransom
- Laughing all the way to the bank
- Lose your shirt
- Made of money
- Make ends meet
- Money burning a hole in my pocket
- Money can’t buy you happiness
- Money doesn’t grow on trees
- Money grubbing
- Money hungry
- Money is the root of all evil
- Money makes the world go around
- Money out the wazoo
- Money Word
- On a tight budget
- A Penny for your thoughts
- Penny pincher
- Penny saved is a penny earned
- Penny wise and pound foolish
- Plunk down
- Poor as a church mouse
- Pot of gold at the end of the rainbow
- Put your money where your mouth is
- A Quick buck
- Raking in the money
- Rolling in the dough
- Sell out
- Sell out
- Sold out
- Shoestring budget
- Show me the money!
- Small potatoes
- Stretch a dollar
- A Sweet deal
- Sweeten the pot
- A Sweetheart deal
- Take a bath
- Taken for a ride
- That’s the sixty-four thousand dollar question
- There’s gold in them thar hills
- There’s no such thing as a free lunch
- Throw good money after bad
- Tight as the bark on a tree
- Tight wad
- Time is money
- Too rich for my blood
- Up the ante
- Well off
- Worth its weight in gold
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“Money… Chock it up, fork it over, shell it out. Watch it burn holes through pockets” — Dana Gioia
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