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pin money

noun as in spending money

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Though I used to write cryptic puzzles for pin money, I don’t think I ever wrote any as tricky and compelling as “The Underlying Chris.”

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“The new villain was the woman who worked for ‘pin money’” — extra cash they didn’t need, Collins writes.

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Writing for Schoolsweek, former government adviser on education Jonathan Simons said Mr Hammond's announcement was phrased "in the manner of which a 1950s husband may have given his wife some pin money".

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While Boulogne relied on pin money, Calais relied on needle – or more exactly bobbin – money.

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The lower cost of living there than in, say, California means freelance bughunting can be a sensible career, not just a source of pin money.

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