pin money

Example Sentences

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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.”

From New York Times

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

From New York Times

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

From Time

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.

From Economist

What is his treating himself to a personal purchase with his hard earned money is me treating myself with my pin money.

From The Guardian