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Pin money   /pɪn mˈəni/   Listen
Pin money

noun
1.
Cash for day-to-day spending on incidental expenses.  Synonyms: pocket money, spending money.






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"Pin money" Quotes from Famous Books



... and told her to have a Good Time. Now, usually, when she wanted any Pin Money, she had to Pry ...
— More Fables • George Ade

... families, to which these young people are allied. Her head runs upon nothing but dress, and expense; she is rather plain, as I hear, but not disagreeable. She has made great terms for herself; her pin money is 1,500. She will give up no part of her fortune to her husband. It is settled upon the children; a jointure ...
— George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life • E. S. Roscoe and Helen Clergue

... those foreign adventurers who swarm in every country, and who styled himself Comte Armand de la Tremouille. He seems to have been a blackguard of unusually low pattern, for, after he had extracted from her some L200 of her pin money and a few diamond brooches, he left her one fine day with a laconic word to say that he was sailing for Europe by the Argentina, and would not be back for some time. She was in love with the brute, poor young soul, for when, a week later, she read that the Argentina ...
— The Old Man in the Corner • Baroness Orczy

... time thought every sentiment he expressed "simply great," and had continued to feed from her mother's hand even in the matter of pin money. Mortimer felt it to be right, so he told her, to put his surplus profits back in his business; all he could spare he needed for "front," to say nothing of pleasant little dinners at restaurants to their hospitable ...
— The Sisters-In-Law • Gertrude Atherton

... each year, we had a large and well assorted vegetable garden. It produced much more than we could possibly use. We boys would sell things from the garden for amusement and pin money. During one summer vacation, a boy, one Johnnie Gray, a brother of L. D. C. Gray of this city, was visiting me. We took a load of vegetables to Marysville. After selling it, getting our lunch, paying for the shoeing of our horse ...
— Out of Doors—California and Oregon • J. A. Graves



Words linked to "Pin money" :   pocket money, cash, hard cash, hard currency, spending money



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