tidy sum
a large amount of money
TRANSLATION
tidy sum = ein beträchtlicher Geldbetrag --- GOOGLE INDEX tidy sum: approximately 1,000,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
That is a tiny fraction of the $100 million in assets collected so far, but a TIDY SUM nonetheless.
(New York Times)
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Last year Mr Mehdorn earned 1.94m euros, a TIDY SUM by the standards of most of the passengers riding Deutsche Bahn's rails.
(BBC News)
(New York Times)
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Last year Mr Mehdorn earned 1.94m euros, a TIDY SUM by the standards of most of the passengers riding Deutsche Bahn's rails.
(BBC News)
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tidy sum
noun phrase
- a considerable amount (especially of money)
(Oxford English Dictionary)
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A tidy sum for the moon
One day in November 1980, unemployed Dennis Hope, found himself driving along a road in northern California. He thought to himself, "If only I had a lot of property." He then looked out the window at the moon and thought: "There's a lot of property!"
Hope learned that, while the United Nation's Outer Space Treaty of 1967 prevents governments from claiming ownership to extraterrestrial real estate, nothing barred him from claiming the property rights as a private individual.
He then started his own business, the Lunar Embassy Commission, to sell parts of the moon. As of 2009 Hope claimed to have sold 2.5 million 1-acre plots for around $20 per acre, a tidy sum indeed. He allocates land to be sold by closing his eyes and randomly pointing to a map of the moon.
(sources: Newsday, Wikipedia)
Etymology: Middle English: from the noun tide + (y) The original meaning was "timely, opportune". It later had various senses expressing approval, usually of a person, including attractive, healthy or skilful.
The sense of "orderly, neat" dates from the early 18th century. (Oxford English Dictionary)
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SYNONYMS
(a lot of, as in money)
a great deal of, a stack of, a wad of, a heap of, a pile of
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"They paid a tidy sum for their vacation house in the south of England."
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noun phrase
- a considerable amount (especially of money)
(Oxford English Dictionary)
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A tidy sum for the moon
One day in November 1980, unemployed Dennis Hope, found himself driving along a road in northern California. He thought to himself, "If only I had a lot of property." He then looked out the window at the moon and thought: "There's a lot of property!"
Hope learned that, while the United Nation's Outer Space Treaty of 1967 prevents governments from claiming ownership to extraterrestrial real estate, nothing barred him from claiming the property rights as a private individual.
He then started his own business, the Lunar Embassy Commission, to sell parts of the moon. As of 2009 Hope claimed to have sold 2.5 million 1-acre plots for around $20 per acre, a tidy sum indeed. He allocates land to be sold by closing his eyes and randomly pointing to a map of the moon.
(sources: Newsday, Wikipedia)
Etymology: Middle English: from the noun tide + (y) The original meaning was "timely, opportune". It later had various senses expressing approval, usually of a person, including attractive, healthy or skilful.
The sense of "orderly, neat" dates from the early 18th century. (Oxford English Dictionary)
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SYNONYMS
(a lot of, as in money)
a great deal of, a stack of, a wad of, a heap of, a pile of
---
SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"They paid a tidy sum for their vacation house in the south of England."
Thanks to Patricia for suggesting today's word!
