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a man of means

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a man/woman of means
someone who has a lot of money I could tell from her address that she was a woman of means.
See also: man, mean


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As her husband was a man of means, and had doubtless returned by this time, could she not send them the money?
So the beggar in the ballad had come home; and when I lay down that night on the kitchen chests, I was a man of means and had a name in the country.
You can spend your fifty-sixth birthday in England, then, and be a man of means for the remainder of your days.
 
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