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WotD: Moneybags
In past posts, I mentioned some idioms that were about money.
If you enjoyed them, I have five days’ worth for you this week.
As everybody knows, money is hard to get but very easy to spend.
You work all month for your paycheck.
Once you get it, you pay the mortgage or rent, fill up your car with gas, buy a case of beer, and that’s it.
You might have enough left over to pay your electricity bill, but it’s not a sure thing.
Kids don’t know that.
Kids look at their parents as moneybags.
Yes, kids think their parents are made of money.
You try to tell your kids that you are not moneybags you try to tell them that you have no money to buy them a new car or a new motorcycle.
Kids don’t listen; they still think that you’re old moneybags.
So, just in case you don’t understand yet, the term moneybags is used to describe a person who is rich or who we think is rich.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
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