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单词 silly money
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Definition of silly money in English:

silly money

noun
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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