Idiom
sell one's own grandmother
Meaning
To do anything, especially unprincipled or illegal, in order to obtain what one desires.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He is so greedy that he would sell his own grandmother for money.”
“The politician was so desperate to win the election that he would sell his own grandmother to get the necessary votes.”
“Driven by an insatiable hunger for power, the executive acted as though he would sell his own grandmother to secure the merger.”
Examples
simple
“He is so greedy that he would sell his own grandmother for money.”
contextual
“The politician was so desperate to win the election that he would sell his own grandmother to get the necessary votes.”
complex
“Driven by an insatiable hunger for power, the executive acted as though he would sell his own grandmother to secure the merger.”
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