Money & work sayings
19 idioms last verified 2026-07-18
Sayings about money, thrift, effort, and the workplace — Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) records many of these as old English proverbs.
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Sayings about money, thrift, effort, and the workplace — Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) records many of these as old English proverbs. Each entry below gives the plain meaning, an origin note honestly attributed to Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) or marked as uncertain, and a usage example.
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- Where do the origins for money & work sayings come from?
- Origins on this page are drawn from public-domain reference works, primarily Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898). Where the origin is disputed or unknown, the entry says so plainly.
- Are these idioms still in modern use?
- Most are in everyday English; a few are chiefly literary or old-fashioned, and those are flagged in the usage notes.
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Last verified: 2026-07-18