money for old rope
moneyyou get for doing something veryeasy:
容易赚的钱Babysitting ismoneyforoldropeif thechildrendon'twakeup.如果小孩不醒，看孩子是很容易赚钱的活儿。
Earning money
- (your)(daily) breadidiom
- assessable
- bank
- base pay
- basic
- basic income
- benefits package
- feel the pinchidiom
- hand over fistidiom
- in arrearsidiom
- lineyourpocket(s)idiom
- livelihood
- pay packet
- pull
- pullsomethingdown
- rakesomethingin
- remonetize
- remuneration
- shift
- sick pay
Examplesofmoney for old rope
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It would be a marvellous piece ofmoneyforoldrope.
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They simply went in there and picked upmoneyforoldrope.
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We are not part of that charmed circle whose members regularly getmoneyforoldrope.
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We regard the question of conveyancing fees as solicitors gettingmoneyforoldropein many cases.
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That wasmoneyforoldropebecause they did not have to do anything.
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I think that it ismoneyforoldrope.
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From a producer's point of view, such a programme would clearly bemoneyforoldrope.
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It ismoneyforoldrope; we are stuffing gold into their mouths.
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I do not wish to condemn what has happened in the past, because if people are given the opportunity to getmoneyforoldropethey will, naturally.
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It wasmoneyforoldrope.
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He was simply gettingmoneyforoldrope.
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