filthy lucre
noun
Money, especially when gained in a dishonest or dishonorable way.So what about those things we didn't cover - like money, the filthy lucre!...
- That's an awful lot of money and while filthy lucre alone doesn't make a golf tournament, it doesn't do any harm!
- And there's no sign anywhere of a lull in the crime wave, as British producers, smelling filthy lucre, are courting and flattering ex-cons by the dozen.
Origin
Early 16th century: with biblical allusion to Tit. 1:11.
- like a bear with a sore head
- likeability
- likeable
- likeableness
- like a blue-arsed fly
- likeably
- like a bride's nightie
- like a bull at a gate
- like a bull in a china shop
- like a cat on a hot tin roof (also on hot bricks)
- like a deer (or rabbit) in the headlights
- like a demon
- like a dog with two tails
- like a dose of salts
- like a dream
- like a drowned rat
- like a headless chicken
- like a (hot) knife through butter
- like a lamb to the slaughter
- like a leech
- like a man (or woman) possessed
- like a moth to the flame
- like anything
- like a rat up a drainpipe
- like a ripe plum (or ripe plums)