اصطلاحات پولی! : English vocabulary for money

Idioms meaning a person is rich

to be loaded: “He works in the City and he’s loaded!”

to be sitting on a small fortune / goldmine: “She will inherit everything. She’s sitting on a goldmine!”

to have money to burn: “I’ve just received a bonus and I have money to burn!”

Idioms meaning a person is poor

to be as poor as church mice: “His family have always been as poor as church mice.”

to be skint = British slang that means having no money: “Can you lend me some money until next Friday? I’m skint!”

to be broke = have no money (also “flat broke” or “stony broke”): “She’s always broke at the end of the month.”

to scrimp and save = to make as many economies as you can to save money: “His parents scrimped and saved to send him to university.”

Idioms to mean you don’t want to spend money

a scrooge = Scrooge was a Dickens character, famous for being mean: “Why don’t you want to buy her a leaving present? You’re such a scrooge.”

a skinflint = someone who doesn’t want to spend money: “She reuses tea bags – she’s such a skinflint!”

tight-fisted: “One reason he has so much money is that he’s so tight-fisted!”

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