Money Problems Idioms

Here you will find vocabulary that is useful when talking about money problems.

You can practice all of these idioms in: Chapter 9 – How Much Did That Cost? – $2.00

• blow
  

  to spend money carelessly

• bucks
  

  dollars (informal)

• burn through money
  

  to spend money very quickly

• cover
  

  to pay for someone

• dough
  

  money

• fall on hard times
  

  to have financial difficulty

• get by
  

  to manage to live but with difficulty

• hard up
  

  to be short of money

• hard-earned
  

  having taken a lot of energy and effort to get

• hooked on
  

  to be addicted to or to really like something

• made of money
  

  to be rich

• make ends meet
  

  to earn just enough money to avoid getting into debt

• max one's credit card
  

  to use your credit card until it reaches its limit

• pay off
  

  to pay for all your debts

• piss one's money away
  

  to waste your money

• put aside
  

  to save money for something

• scrape by
  

  to make just enough money to survive

• set someone back
  

  to cost (when the thing bought was expensive)

• shell out
  

  to pay an excessive amount of money for something

• shopaholic
  

  a person addicted to shopping

• well off
  

  to be rich; to be wealthy

• wheels
  

  a car

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