tidy sum

collocation in English

meaningsoftidyandsum

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tidy
adjective
uk
/ˈtaɪ.di/us
/ˈtaɪ.di/
having everything ordered and arranged in the right place, or liking to keep things ...
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sum
noun
uk
/sʌm/us
/sʌm/
an amount ...
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(Definition oftidyandsumfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftidy sum

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That is atidysum.
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The performance was a great success and the showman collected atidysumof money.
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It will be atidysum.
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That is atidysumof money.
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That amounts to about £85 million per week, which seems to me a fairlytidysum.
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If overheads were added, it would be atidysummore than that.
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He netted atidysum, has a house worth £500,000 and a fleet of cars.
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It is quite atidysumto put in an election fund.
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I meant to say £500,000 a month, which is atidysumof money.
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We are asked to pass £150,000,000, which is a prettytidysumeven in these profligate days.
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That is atidysumto be going on with before the end of the current financial year.
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Those payments plus the rates to local authorities and the cost of policing are atidysum.
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For thattidysum, of recent years the taxpayer has been getting a constant increase in crime and recidivism.
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The result is that these promoters, who make atidysumout of them, are not too unhappy.
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When he died in 1852 his life insurance policy amounted to $10,000, atidysum.
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A one-year subscription for both papers could be purchased for atidysumof $6.
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After the payment of debt, that will leave thetidysumof about £20 million almost entirely in the control of only three men.
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That is a nicetidysumand a nice tidy sweetener to the prospective new owners simply to write off £43 million.
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However, she keeps the money in a bank during her years there, where it earns atidysumof interest.
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You are more likely to find a work in the retail market, and can expect to pay atidysum.
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For some years he drew down the elegant stipend of $500 a week and there is probably atidysumin the family teapot.
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By 1900, the group had spent atidysumof money that they didn't have, and they were forced to sell some of the land.
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By undercutting on prices and offering customer perks, she soon succeeds in poaching nearly all of their business and starts to accumulate atidysumin profits.
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