money galore
a large amount of money
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
It was a year of high drama that had heroes, villains, security concerns, MONEY GALORE and a shift of power that shook the sport of cricket to its core.
(TVNZ, New Zealand)
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If the Western democracies get involved in a any kind of war with China, they will waste men, material and MONEY GALORE, thereby weakening their ability to defend Europe, which is the real prize the Kremlin desires.
The St. Petersburg (Florida) Times, 1950
(TVNZ, New Zealand)
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If the Western democracies get involved in a any kind of war with China, they will waste men, material and MONEY GALORE, thereby weakening their ability to defend Europe, which is the real prize the Kremlin desires.
The St. Petersburg (Florida) Times, 1950
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money galore
noun phrase
- a large amount of money
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WORD ORIGIN
Galore stems from the Irish "go leor," which corresponds to the Gaelic "gu leoir," meaning sufficiently or enough. Thus money galore describes an abundance of money. The Irish folk band The Chieftains sing about lots of money from the perspective of romance in the traditional Irish folk song Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore:
If ever fortune, it should favour me,
And I do have money galore,
Well I'll come back and wed the sweet lassie I left,
On Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore
Others do not consider being rich a virtue. An unknown Irish peasant-songwriter once wrote:
There was old Paddy Murphy had money galore,
And Darner of Shronell* had twenty times more,
They are now on their backs under nettles and stones
*Darner of Shronell, who lived in the 18th century, was supposedly the richest man in Ireland. The expression "as rich as Darner" has become a proverb in the south of Ireland.
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SYNONYMS
affluent, bloated, comfortable, easy, fat, filthy rich, flush, gilded, in clover, independent, in the money, loaded, made of money, moneyed, opulent, plush, propertied, prosperous, rolling in it, swimming, upscale, uptown, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well provided for, well-to-do, worth a million
ANTONYMS
bad off, beggarly, behind eight ball, broke, destitute, dirt poor, down-and-out, empty-handed, flat broke, fortuneless, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, in need, insolvent, in want, meagre, moneyless, necessitous, needy, pauperised, penniless, penurious, pinched, poverty-stricken, reduced, strapped, suffering, underprivileged, unprosperous
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"Some politicians think that throwing money galore at economic problems will solve our difficulties."
noun phrase
- a large amount of money
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WORD ORIGIN
Galore stems from the Irish "go leor," which corresponds to the Gaelic "gu leoir," meaning sufficiently or enough. Thus money galore describes an abundance of money. The Irish folk band The Chieftains sing about lots of money from the perspective of romance in the traditional Irish folk song Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore:
If ever fortune, it should favour me,
And I do have money galore,
Well I'll come back and wed the sweet lassie I left,
On Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore
Others do not consider being rich a virtue. An unknown Irish peasant-songwriter once wrote:
There was old Paddy Murphy had money galore,
And Darner of Shronell* had twenty times more,
They are now on their backs under nettles and stones
*Darner of Shronell, who lived in the 18th century, was supposedly the richest man in Ireland. The expression "as rich as Darner" has become a proverb in the south of Ireland.
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SYNONYMS
affluent, bloated, comfortable, easy, fat, filthy rich, flush, gilded, in clover, independent, in the money, loaded, made of money, moneyed, opulent, plush, propertied, prosperous, rolling in it, swimming, upscale, uptown, wealthy, well-heeled, well-off, well provided for, well-to-do, worth a million
ANTONYMS
bad off, beggarly, behind eight ball, broke, destitute, dirt poor, down-and-out, empty-handed, flat broke, fortuneless, hard up, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, in need, insolvent, in want, meagre, moneyless, necessitous, needy, pauperised, penniless, penurious, pinched, poverty-stricken, reduced, strapped, suffering, underprivileged, unprosperous
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SMUGGLE OWAD INTO TODAY'S CONVERSATION:
"Some politicians think that throwing money galore at economic problems will solve our difficulties."
