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cry all the way to the bank

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cry all the way to the bank
Fig. to make a lot of money on something that one ought to be ashamed of. Jane: Have you read the new book by that romance novelist? They say it sold a million copies, but it's so badly written that the author ought to be ashamed of herself. Alan: I'm sure she's crying all the way to the bank. That dreadful movie had no artistic merit. I suppose the people who produced it are crying all the way to the bank.
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McCourt looks around the baseball world and sees the sports equivalent of ``The Producers,'' a business in which nothing succeeds like failure, an industry in which lovable losers cry all the way to the bank.
Smith, the not-very-flashy CEO who turned around Kimberly-Clark and helped Kleenex cry all the way to the bank.
 
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