hi i'm rebecca from engvid in this lesson you're going to learn ten fun idioms that have to do with
money wealth and financial success okay let's get started so here are the first two they both start
with two have so the first one is to have money to burn and the second one is to have deep pockets
now both of them have the idea that somebody hopefully you but somebody has lots of money
in the first one to have money to burn it means that someone has so much money that they have a
lot of extra money and so much extra money that even if they burned it it wouldn't matter they
would still have lots of money left so when you have money to burn it means you have a lot of
extra money and more money then you even actually need all right so that's to have money to burn and
the way you would use it in a sentence is they have money to burn he has money to burn and so
on okay so you just change this part of the verb all right this one to have deep pockets so what's
your pocket the pocket is like the part of your pants let's say where you put your cell phone or
your wallet or something and if someone has deep pockets it means they have a lot of money okay
that's basically what it means okay he has deep pockets she has deep pockets it means they're
talking about money they're not talking about their clothes they're talking about the money
and it just means they have a lot of money all right the next one these two both start with to
be to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth or to be loaded same idea again we're talking about
somebody having a lot of money but from a slightly different perspective so here if we say that
someone she was born with a silver spoon in her mouth okay so you have to change it according to
who you're talking about or he was born with the silver spoon in his mouth it means that he or she
was born into a family that was already very rich and wealthy okay so they were born into a into a
home where there was lots of many lots of wealth lots of comfort okay and to some extent lay it can
also mean that that person may be when they grow up they didn't really do something to earn that
money or to become to be rich themselves but they were already born into that okay so the expression
is to be born with a silver spoon in your mouth it would be very interesting to know idioms from
your languages regarding money and maybe you can post some of those later in the comments okay I'm
not sure if you have one like this perhaps you do alright so this is kind of very informal if
you say that somebody's loaded he's loaded she's loaded it again refers to somebody who has a lot
of money it doesn't refer to a gun or a weapon it just is a sort of a slang expression to mean that
somebody has lots of money okay all right let's look at a few more so here's one well here are
three that have similar meanings to make a bundle to strike gold and to hit the jackpot okay so
these three all mean that somebody made a lot of money whereas here you weren't already born into
a situation where there was a lot of money these mean that somebody did something to make a lot of
money to make a bundle a bundle means like a lot of something and to make a bundle in this case is
referring to a lot a bundle of money so to make a lot of money to strike gold also means you know in
the days when people were looking for gold and if they actually found it so that was obviously
a very happy occasion for them a happy time to strike gold means to do something either in a
business usually to do with work or business but it could be general sense it just means that you
you did something that earned a lot of money or became very successful okay so that's to strike
gold or to hit the jackpot again this is an idiom which comes from the world of casinos alright so
when someone goes to a casino and plays you know on the slot machines or wherever there
they can win a little bit of money or they can win a lot of money and when you hit win a lot of money
that's called the jackpot okay the big money so when you hit the jackpot it means you won
a lot of money or you were very very successful financially okay so for example this company hit
the jackpot when they released their new product okay that means they were extremely successful
they made a lot of money from it so it doesn't only refer obviously to individuals can also
refer to companies and businesses and so on and it can also refer to finance not just financial
things but also life and social relationships you can say I hit the jackpot when I met my wife or a
man I met my husband okay so that means that they were very successful okay all right and now let's
look at the last three here to look like a million bucks to feel like a million bucks or to be worth
a million bucks okay so the first one to look like a million bucks if you say to someone wow
you look like a million bucks today that means you look amazing you look great you look spectacular
Luke much you know much more fancier than usual and maybe the person is wearing a fancy new suit
or they're very or wearing a beautiful dress which is perhaps very expensive doesn't have to be that
the clothing is exactly expensive but the person looks like that so we just it's a way of saying
that they look great they look particularly great alright to look like a million bucks in the same
way when we say to feel like a million bucks well you know most people how would they feel if they
a million bucks well they feel pretty happy so this one means that you feel very happy okay I
feel like a million bucks today I'm ready to go I'm ready to to get that job or I'm ready to to
meet that that man or that woman or whatever it is that's happening in your life that makes you
excited okay and that's you can say I feel like a million bucks that was a little bit
down before but now I'm feeling like a million bucks feeling strong powerful great alright and
the last one here to be worth a million bucks so that's basically saying that something is very
valuable okay it's worth a million bucks it could be a business opportunity could be spending time
with your family spending time with my family's worth a million bucks to me so there it doesn't
mean financially but it's just the concept that a million bucks or a million dollars which you
can also say for each of these expressions is sum is representative of something that is very
valuable okay so you could be could say that spending time with my family or spending time
with my children is worth a million bucks okay so these are ten idioms they all have to do with
money you might want to know them for from two points of view like all idioms and expressions
when people use them you want to understand what's being said you'll hear probably many
of these movies and on TV and shows and so on so you want to be able to understand and appreciate
them and then if you feel really comfortable you can start to use them yourself okay and then you
might feel like a million bucks because your English is improving so quickly alright so if
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