spondulicks
/spɒnˈd(j)uːlɪks
/(also spondulix)
plural noun British informal
Money.It is not lost on O'Neill that he has made the most of whatever spondulicks he has been given to invest in players, but he recognises this as a double-edged sword....
- Age is immaterial, however, if he comes up trumps and allows me spondulicks.
- Feel free to donate some spondulix to them - I did, and lord knows, money's pretty tight right now.
Origin
Mid 19th century: of unknown origin.
- there's many a good tune played on an old fiddle
- there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip
- there's more than one way to skin a cat
- there's more to someone (or something) than meets the eye
- there's no accounting for tastes (or taste)
- there's no fool like an old fool
- there's no law against it
- there's none so blind as those who will not see
- there's no (or little or not much) love lost between
- there's no such thing as a free lunch
- there's one (or a sucker) born every minute
- there's (or that's) —— for you
- there's safety in numbers
- the rest is history
- the Resurrection
- therethrough
- thereto
- theretofore
- thereunder
- thereunto
- thereupon
- the Revelation of St John the Divine
- the Revolution
- there wasn't a dry eye (in the house)
- there will be hell to pay