earn a packet
earn a packet
To earn a very large amount of money, especially by doing something very successfully. We'll earn a packet if we can manage to secure a trading partner in China. I hear Sarah is earning a packet with sales from her latest novel.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- coin money
- earn a mint
- earn a/your crust
- earn a crust
- make good money
- earn (one's) daily bread
- crust
- earn (one's) crust
- earn an honest penny
- make (an amount of money) on (something)