单词 | money to burn |
释义 | money to burnSEE SYNONYMS FOR money to burn ON THESAURUS.COM More than enough money for what is required or expected, as in After they paid off the creditors, they still had money to burn. This hyperbolic expression implies one has so much that one can afford to burn it. [Late 1800s] This sense of the verb burn is occasionally used in other phrases, such as time to burn (“more than enough time”), but not very often. Words nearby money to burnmoney spider, money-spinner, moneyspinning, money supply, money talks, money to burn, money tree, money wages, moneywort, mong, Monge The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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