Basic Needs

['m8ni]

Everyday Expressions
n.
Money doesnt always bring happiness.
n. () a bill
--- a coin/ hard money
--- foreign currency
--- change

moneybags
moneylender
money-maker

Linguistic Skill
Useful Phrases
--- to make/earn money
--- to pass money on to sb
--- to marry into money
--- to lay out ones money
--- to put money into sth
Idioms & Slang
fun money ---
be on the money ---
be in the money ---
have money to burn ---
marry money ---

Communicating Clearly
Street Talks
Marian saves a small part of her salary as fun money every month.
A: If I have enough money, Im going to take a trip abroad.
B: But you do earn a lot!
A: Well, I spend half my money on clothes.
B: Icy, if I were you, Id lay out my money more carefully.
A: If I buy that car, Ill have to borrow some money.
B: Where is your money?
A: I ventured my money on the stocks.
A: Rose thinks shes every mans money!
B: Shes pretty but she has no talent.
A: Gosh! Were in the money!
B: Yeah! Thank God! We won a thousand dollars at the race
today!

Cultural Focus
Transcripts

Do you know how much money it costs to go to New York?

Thats how we and mama got money.

Joanna: All those years, you made all that money and you never
told any of us how to do it.
Mr. Fairchild: Ill tell you now, Joanna, marry me. Marry me for my
money. People do it everyday.
Proverbs
Money talks.

Money makes the mare go.


Quotations
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money
is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Andy Warhol (1928-87), U.S. pop artist. From A to B and Back Again, ch. 6
(1975).

Christianity is art & not money. Money is its curse.

William Blake (1757-1827), English poet, painter, engraver. Notes on The
Laocon (engraved c. 1820; repr. in Complete Writings, ed. by Geoffrey Keynes,
1957).