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old money

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old money

1. Families who have amassed great wealth over a very long time; individuals of such a family. If you don't think that old money is controlling our elected officials, you need to get your head examined! You can always tell which students in this university come from old money.
2. A great amount of inherited wealth that has been passed along a family line for many generations. He hasn't had a job in years, relying instead on his family's old money.
See also: money, old
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'Faux aristocrat Pippa Middleton has clearly been reading the bluffer's guide to looking like old money'
As is old money, or "retired paper currency," as it is properly known.
Yesterday, I bought one for 72 pence which translated into old money is over 15/-.which seems inconceivable.
That's pounds 5.79 a pound in old money, so they ought to taste like heaven.
A murder mystery set in rural North Carolina, Shooting at Loons follows Judge Deborah Knott as she is unexpectedly thrust in the center of legal and other battles between sport and commercial fishermen, not to mention old money versus new money.
I recall that throughout the early 1950s petrol was 4s-6d a gallon in old money ie 22 1/2 p.
There's an old money management maxim: it's not what you earn but what you keep.
The old money. based hierarchical paradigm is wobbling as its foundation is revealed to be nothing but dust.
Too many of the recommendations, unfortunately, call for black statehouse and black old money power that do not yet exist.
But since we had a viable plan for Lincoln, ING agreed that they would be better off investing new money in the hope they would get some of the old money back.
During a tour of the tony neighborhood of Peachtree Battle several years ago, the agent drew distinctions between "old money" and "new money" based on street addresses.
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