more money than brains
English
Phrase
more money than brains
- Wealthy, but lacking the wisdom to spend that wealth wisely.
- 1697, Daniel Defoe, An Essay Upon Projects:
- The diver shall walk at the bottom of the Thames, the saltpetre maker shall build Tom T—d's pond into houses, the engineers build models and windmills to draw water, till funds are raised to carry it on by men who have more money than brains, and then good night patent and invention—the projector has his business, and he is gone.
- 1884, Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, →ISBN, page 18:
- But I suppose that a prig with more money than brains was much the same sixty or seventy years ago as he is now.
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