Let’s talk money

Verbs
Spend money
=Give money as payment for something
“I spend a lot of money on traveling”
To save money/to put aside some money
=Keep money for use in the future
“I’m saving money to buy a car”
“I’m puting aside some money to buy a car”
waste/squander money
=Spend money in a bad way
“She always wastes money on clothes”
“He squanders money on fast food”
throw money at
=To solve problems with money recklessly
“The company threw money at the problem without understanding what the real cause was”
splash out on
=To spend a lot of money on something
“On my last trip, I splashed out on a seven star hotel”

price
(Expensive)

to cost an arm and a leg

“I can’t buy that car, it costs an arm and a leg”
to cost a fortune
“Buying a house, costs a fortune”
to pay through the nose
“I paid through the nose for this watch”

price
(Cheap)

For a song
“This car is priced at just 2000 dollars. It’s going for a song”
dirt cheap =Very cheap
“This house is dirt cheap. You can buy it by only paying 15000 dollars”
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as cheap as chips
“The car he is going to buy is as cheap as chips”

price (Not cheap nor expensive)

reasonably priced
=To be neither cheap nor expensive
“5 dollars for a pizza? That’s reasonably priced”

some advanced idioms

related to money

a bargain
=It is being sold and at a lower price than its real value
“The real value of a phone is $1000, but if you can buy that $900,it’s a bargain”
“This shirt was half-price, it’s a real bargain”
A bargain hunter
=A person who likes looking for things that are good value for money
“Jenny is a real bargain hunter. She is always looking for the best deals in online shops”
to save for a rainy day
=To save money for diffiucult situations
“my father always says wise people save 20 percent of their income for a rainy day”
on a shoestring
=It means with a very small amount of money
“I always travel on a shoestring”
to make ends meet
=To manage the amount of money you have until the end of the months
to live from hand to mouth
=To have just enough money to live on and nothing extra
“When I was a child, my father earned very little and there were five of us, so we lived
from hand to mouth”

a mortgage
=Money you borrow from the bank to buy a house
to pay installments
=To pay your loan in small pieces for a long time
“When you take a mortgage, you have to pay back in installments”