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Word of the Day: Old money
Today, I have another idiom about money: old money, which refers to families that have been rich for many generations.
As you can probably tell, I like talking about working, earning money, and talking about money in general.
For example, Steve Jobs was rich, but he was an example of new money, not old money.
Old money refers to families that have been rich for many generations.
Great-grandfathers, grandfathers, fathers were, and now sons are rich.
An excellent example of old money is many of the high-ranking politicians in Japan.
They are rich because they come from money.
This means that their great-grandfathers were rich, their grandfathers were rich, their fathers were prosperous, and now they are rich, too.
The chances are that their children will also be rich.
That’s what it means to be old money.
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