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pin money
noun
- any small sum set aside for nonessential minor expenditures.
- (formerly) an allowance of money given by a husband to his wife for her personal expenditures.
pin money
noun
- an allowance by a husband to his wife for personal expenditure
- money saved or earned to be used for incidental expenses
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 辫颈苍顎-尘辞苍顎卐测 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of pin money1
Idioms and Phrases
Small amounts of money for incidental expenses, as in Grandma usually gives the children some pin money whenever she visits . This expression originally signified money given by a husband to his wife for small personal expenditures such as pins, which were very costly items in centuries past. A will recorded at York in 1542 listed a bequest: 鈥淚 give my said daughter Margarett my lease of the parsonage . . . to buy her pins.鈥 [Early 1500s]Example Sentences
Though I used to write cryptic puzzles for pin money, I don鈥檛 think I ever wrote any as tricky and compelling as 鈥淭he Underlying Chris.鈥
鈥淭he new villain was the woman who worked for 鈥榩in money鈥欌 鈥 extra cash they didn鈥檛 need, Collins writes.
Writing for Schoolsweek, former government adviser on education Jonathan Simons said Mr Hammond's announcement was phrased "in the manner of which a 1950s husband may have given his wife some pin money".
While Boulogne relied on pin money, Calais relied on needle 鈥 or more exactly bobbin 鈥 money.
The lower cost of living there than in, say, California means freelance bughunting can be a sensible career, not just a source of pin money.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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