chunk of change

a chunk of change

A lot of money. I can't wait to file my taxes because I know I'm getting a chunk of change back this year. Wow, nice car! That must have cost a chunk of change!
See also: change, chunk, of
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

chunk of change

Fig. a lot of money. Tom's new sports car cost a real big chunk of change!
See also: change, chunk, of
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • chunk
  • a chunk of change
  • chunk someone
  • take a bite out of
  • take a bite out of (something)
  • take a bite out of something
  • gray amber
  • grits
  • blow chunks
  • above and beyond the call of duty
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"What you have there is something special, and it's worth a pretty good chunk of change if it's authentic," Deniz Kahn, Wata Games CEO, told Amos.
I was expecting good chunk of change. I was going to put it toward buying a car," said Sal Ramirez, a 20-year-old packaging designer in San Gabriel Valley, California.
"If you think about that now, that's quite a significant chunk of change Even the indie market was small, kinda indie bands from the States that would come and play Whelan's and internationally sell 100,000, maybe 120,000 records.
The beat owners know that if they hold an angler to paying a good chunk of change for a day any sensible soul would spend tying flies beside a warm fire, word will soon get out and the queue of sporting clients will quickly grow thin.
He does have a plan, albeit one which needs a chunk of change, and some fair winds.
If you spent a chunk of change on a campaign that didn't deliver ROI, scrap that approach this year and put more money into the types of ads that got results.
Landlords could get a bigger chunk of change in landlord-tenant court proceedings from tenants who don't pay their rent, if a bill proposed by Rep.
It may seem like a big chunk of change at first, but the information and education you'll gain will be worth ever so much more.
It's fixed now, thanks to a 10-minute visit from an electrician--but if I'd had David and Sharon Bowers' The Useful Book (Workman, $19.95, 416 pages, ISBN 9780761171737), I could have saved myself a chunk of change. Aiming to fill the educational gap left by all those home ec and shop classes no one takes anymore, this aptly named tome gathers a dizzying array of how-tos: everything from folding a fitted sheet to caulking a bathtub, making a household budget to building a table and 197 other skills, projects and repairs that, once mastered, should leave you feeling brilliantly self-sufficient.
And once you also consider that the package includes six air bags, including side-curtain bags that protect passenger heads in all three rows, as well as traction control, anti-lock brakes and other electronic safety systems, you also feel you and your family are pretty safe after dropping that big chunk of change.
It seems almost inconceivable that Mike Ashley would spend another chunk of change on players in January, but he has handed that "huge responsibility" to his football board this summer.
It seems almost inconceivable that Mike Ashley would spend another chunk of change on players in January but he has handed that "huge responsibility" to his football board this summer.
And PS14.5m is a fair chunk of change for Newcastle - hopefully that shows we're in the market for decent players this summer.
When he strikes an option agreement, a fair chunk of change is folded back into his rojects.