honest money
Example Sentences
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Not only were other inmates inspired by his ability to turn time into honest money, Dixon could afford to be a peacemaker.
From Golf Digest • Dec. 6, 2018
The pay wasn’t much, but Winans liked the feeling of honest money.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2018
Few people made honest money from Death Valley mines, at least until the borax business came in, at the turn of the twentieth century.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 6, 2016
If there was ever a cause that needed an infusion of tech savvy and honest money, it is a journalistically independent and self-sustaining news media.
From Forbes • Aug. 6, 2013
“Well, understand one thing right now. No strange man is going to pay my hospital bill. I shall stay here until honest money buys my freedom.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
