be a money-spinner

To be a lucrative business or product. Primarily heard in UK, Australia. That mobile dating app has proven to be a real money-spinner for the developer—it's making them more money than anything else they've launched before. A wildly popular film franchise is quite a money-spinner—that's why all these companies are fighting over it. Plenty of short-sighted people told me my invention would never be a money-spinner. Thank goodness I didn't listen to them!

See also:

spinner
money-spinner
You bloody ripper!
You little ripper!
You beauty!
swipe right
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in favor (with someone)
in favor with
in/out of favour

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