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The money in your pocket
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- Dosh, dough, wedge - These
are informal terms for money.
- A
fiver
, A
tenner
. - £5,
£10
- Twenty
quid
- £20
- A
ton
- £100
- A
grand
- £1,000
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Loose change
- coins
- I've only got a few coppers. - I
only have a few 2p and 1p coins.
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Plastic
- credit/debit
cards
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Music
Health
Sport
Relationships
Food
Going out
Moods
Work
Texting
Money
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Having a lot
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- She's
loaded
. She's
stinking rich
.
- She's got lots of money.
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Trustafarians
- People
who receive money from their family or an allowance; the word
is a play on Rastafarian (a believer in a religion which originated
in Jamaica).
- I'll buy you dinner, I'm
cashed up
tonight!
- I've got plenty of money!
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Not having any
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- I'm
skint / broke
.
I haven't got a
penny
. - I haven't got any money!
- I'm
a bit short
this month. -
I don't have much money till I get paid.
- I can't
afford
it! - It's
too expensive for me, I don't have enough money.
- I've reached my
credit limit.
- I
can't spend any more money on my credit cards.
- He lost his job last year and had to
sign on
.
/
go on the dole
. - He's
now out of work and receiving financial help from the government.
[If you sign on, you go to a government office and sign a form
each fortnight to declare you are available for work.]
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People who don't like spending it
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- He never buys
a round
; he's really
tight.
/ tight fisted. / stingy.
- That
guy never buys drinks for other people - he's mean / ungenerous.
- He opened his wallet and
a moth flew out
!
- He rarely spends his money. [Moths tend
to live in clothes which don't get used very often - so someone
mean never opens his / her wallet!]
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Some phrases
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- That piano's
worth a fortune
! -
That piano is worth a lot of money.
- It cost
an arm and a leg!
-
It cost a lot of money.
- They get paid
peanuts
! - They
get paid badly.
- That restaurant's a real
rip-off
! - That
restaurant overcharges; it doesn't represent value for money.
- They don't have
two pennies to rub together
.
- They are very poor.
- The business went
bust.
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The business was declared bankrupt.
- That last bill completely
cleaned me out
!
- That bill used up all of my money.
- I'm skint. I
blew
my salary on a new
hi-fi. - I've spent all my wages.
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Lingo
Challenge
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Try using as many of these phrases
as you can in a one-minute conversation! How many will you manage
to use? Have fun!
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