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Idiom: Come from money
When some people were young, they dreamed of marrying someone who comes from money.
Maybe they are married now and still dream of marrying someone who comes from money.
Heck, I don’t know what people think – and I try not to judge people by what they believe, but I’m getting off-topic here.
People who come from money are from wealthy families. If you’re not rich, you may dream of being with people who come from money.
Anyway, a person who comes from money is from a wealthy family.
There are two types of wealthy families.
There’s the old money and then the new money.
The old money families are families who have been rich for a very long time. Perhaps their great-grandfather started a very successful business 150 years ago.
Families considered to be new money are those that have recently become rich.
Business people who run successful Silicon Valley companies can be called new money, even though their families do not have a long history of being rich.
Unfortunately, I don’t come from money, so I can be sure my wife didn’t marry me for that reason, and I’m half afraid to ask her why she did marry me.
But I’m rambling again.
The main thing to remember today is that people who come from money are from wealthy families.
Don’t worry, though.
Just because you don’t come from money doesn’t mean you can’t become wealthy.
Hard work pays off in the end if you have a lot of luck too.
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