Time is money
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pneI was thinking the other day about how some expressions connected with money are also used with time, especially "pay a visit" and "spend some time".
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Date: Tuesday, 6 January 2009 15:01 (UTC)Hence leading to the joke, "How much do you (earn/deserve)?" - "Let's not talk about how much I deserve, but about how much I actually *get*!"
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Date: Tuesday, 6 January 2009 15:11 (UTC)In Hungarian, you always get this picture of someone hunting wildly for coins in the couch cushions.