Второе видео по произношению и английские идиомы (37)

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Money

cost an arm and a leg

If something costs an arm and a leg it costs a lot of money.

It cost us an arm and a leg to get here. But it has been worth every penny and more.

Note: You can use verbs such as pay, charge, and spend instead of cost.

Many restaurants were charging an arm and a leg for poor quality food.

down the drain

If money, work, or time has gone down the drain it has been lost or wasted.

Over the years, the government has poured billions of dollars down the drain supporting its national airlines and other firms.

You have ruined everything - my perfect plans, my great organization. All those years of work are down the drain.

Note: You can sometimes use words such as plughole and toilet instead of drain.

Millions of dollars have gone down the plughole.

feel the pinch

If a person or organization feels the pinch they do not have as much money as they used to have, and so they cannot buy the things they would like to buy.

Poor households were still feeling the pinch and new taxes on fuel made matters even worse.

have deep pockets

If a person or organization has deep pockets they have a lot of money.

The company will do anything to avoid scandal - and everyone knows it has deep pockets.

Note: You can also talk about people or organizations w ith deep pockets or use deep pockets on its own with the same meaning.

They needed to find investors with deep pockets. What they lacked in military power, they made up for in deep pockets.

in the red

If a person or organization is in the red they owe money to someone or to another organization.

Note: This expression comes from the practice in the past of using red ink to fill in entries on the debit side of a book of accounts.

Banks are desperate for you to join them - even if you're in the red.

Note: You can also say that you go into the red when you start to owe money to the bank.

If you do go into the red, you get charged 30 pence for each transaction while you are overdrawn.

Note: You can also say that a person or organization gets out o f the red, meaning that they stop owing money to someone.

We're slowly climbing out of the red.

Note: You can use in the b lack to talk about bein g in credit.

My bank account was in the black for the first time that year.

make ends meet

If you find it difficult to make ends meet you find it difficult to pay for the things you need in life, because you have very little money.

Note: Originally, this expression was ‘make both ends of the year meet’, which meant to spend only as much money as you received as income.

Many people are struggling to make ends meet because wages are failing to keep pace with rising prices.

on a shoestring

If you do something on a shoestring, you do it using very little money.

Note: In American English, shoelaces are called shoestrings. The reference here is to the very small amount of money that is needed to buy shoelaces.

This theatre was always run on a shoestring.

Note: You can use shoestring before a noun.

Both films were made on a shoestring budget.

out of pocket

If you are out of pocket after an event or an activity, you have less money than you should have.

The promoter claims he was left £36,000 out of pocket after the concert.

be rolling in it or be rolling in money

If someone is rolling in it or is rolling in money, they are very rich. [INFORMAL]

Don't worry about the cost - soon you'll be rolling in it.

Jessica's parents are obviously rolling in money.

a small fortune

A small fortune is a very large amount of money.

For almost two years, Hawkins made a small fortune running a corner shop.

there's no such thing as a free lunch or there is no free lunch

People say there's no such thing as a free lunch or there is no free lunch to mean you cannot expect to get things for nothing.

Note: This expression dates back to at least 1840 in the United States. It recently became popular again when the American economist Milton Friedman used it in the 1970s.

There is no such thing as a free lunch of course, and many of the most attractive looking deals have quite large joining fees.

There is no free lunch. You won't get anything you don't sweat and struggle for.

tighten your belt

If you tighten your belt you make an effort to spend less money.

Clearly, if you are spending more than your income, you'll need to tighten your belt.

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