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Definition of silly money in English: silly moneynoun mass nounBritish informal A ridiculously large amount of money. I do wish people would spend time planning their marriage rather than spending silly money on their wedding day Example sentencesExamples - We've all heard about cases of silly money being asked for rights to certain films.
- Tickets for that gig were changing hands for silly money, if I remember rightly.
- I really don't know how much it is worth, but they are talking about silly money.
- They spend silly money on kids' clothes and birthday parties.
- They were offering him silly money and he could not really refuse it.
- But nobody is forcing club chairmen to pay silly money for mediocre players.
- People offered me silly money but the contracts never came.
- Some companies were prepared to pay silly money just to tie up business with the big networks.
- We got the deal up to a sensible level, but it was never silly money.
- Why return to a job that has little to offer by way of progression and that has managers who get paid silly money to do nothing?
- We may have been paid very silly money, but we earned it.
Synonyms a huge amount, a small fortune, a king's ransom, a vast sum, a large sum of money, a lot, millions, billions
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