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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



... Lanning kid an outlaw and stick a price on his head—five thousand, I think, and they say Merchant is behind it. The telephone was buzzing with it when I left town, and most of the boys were oiling up their gats and getting ready to make a play. Pretty easy money, eh, for putting the rollers under ...
— Way of the Lawless • Max Brand

... was shortly afterwards that I had received a visit from Mr. Cloyster—the visit which ended in my agreeing to sign whatever manuscripts he sent me, and forward him all cheques for a consideration of ten per cent. Softest job ever a man had. Easy money. Kudos—I had almost too much of it. Which takes me back to the G.M.'s remark about my leaving the office. Since he's bought that big house at Regent's Park he's done a lot of entertaining at the restaurants. His name's always cropping ...
— Not George Washington - An Autobiographical Novel • P. G. Wodehouse

... introduced by his friend to an Irishman named "Buck" Halloran, who was a political "worker" and on the inside of things. This man talked with Jurgis for a while, and then told him that he had a little plan by which a man who looked like a workingman might make some easy money; but it was a private affair, and had to be kept quiet. Jurgis expressed himself as agreeable, and the other took him that afternoon (it was Saturday) to a place where city laborers were being paid off. The ...
— The Jungle • Upton Sinclair



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



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