have/get your snout in the trough
UK informalto have or get a share of a supply of money or some other advantage that people eagerly and sometimes dishonestly take:
The council had been handing out grants indiscriminately, and people were hurrying to get their snouts in the trough.
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Amounts of money
- ante
- balance
- bank
- blood money
- bounty
- buck
- budget
- capital
- circumstance
- daily bread
- float
- living wage
- money supply
- nut
- payout
- pool
- slush fund
- sub
- the wherewithal
- trough
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