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Idiom

easy money

Meaning

Money that is easily acquired.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“Selling my old clothes online is easy money.”

“He thought the simple data entry job would be easy money, but the workload was much higher than he expected.”

“Many investors were lured into the scheme by the promise of easy money, only to discover that their capital had vanished entirely.”

Examples

simple

“Selling my old clothes online is easy money.”

contextual

“He thought the simple data entry job would be easy money, but the workload was much higher than he expected.”

complex

“Many investors were lured into the scheme by the promise of easy money, only to discover that their capital had vanished entirely.”

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