big bucks
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Noun
big bucks pl (plural only)
- (idiomatic) Lots of money.
- The new managing director must be making big bucks after his promotion.
- 1999, Dale Brown, The Tin Man, page 96:
- But he was unable to get a gun permit and make the big bucks of an armed security guard, so he made minimum wage as a seasonal-hire watchman
- 2006, Ann Coulter, Godless:
- After all the carping about how little teachers are paid, if someone enters the teaching profession for the big bucks aren't they too stupid to be teaching our kids?
Synonyms
- megabucks