if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys

proverb If you pay very low wages, you will only attract incompetent or unskilled workers (because better workers can go elsewhere to earn better wages). "Peanuts" is a slang term for low wages, and "monkeys" implies stupidity. If you want a top flight design team, you have to raise your salary levels. If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys

BRITISH

People say if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys to mean that if an employer pays very low wages, they cannot expect to find good staff. The present pay policy will inevitably have an adverse effect on quality. As Sir Roger put it, `The truth of the matter is that if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.' Note: Monkeys are thought to like eating peanuts, and `peanuts' also has the meaning of a very small amount of money.

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释义	if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys proverb If you pay very low wages, you will only attract incompetent or unskilled workers (because better workers can go elsewhere to earn better wages). "Peanuts" is a slang term for low wages, and "monkeys" implies stupidity. If you want a top flight design team, you have to raise your salary levels. If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. See also: get, if, monkey, pay Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys BRITISH People say if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys to mean that if an employer pays very low wages, they cannot expect to find good staff. The present pay policy will inevitably have an adverse effect on quality. As Sir Roger put it, `The truth of the matter is that if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.' Note: Monkeys are thought to like eating peanuts, and `peanuts' also has the meaning of a very small amount of money. See also: get, if, monkey, pay Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. See also: have a low opinion of (someone or something) be/run low run low not so bad at a low ebb fly low in low water a peg too low a low ebb low ebb References in periodicals archive To quote the old adage, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. Do we pay council bosses too much? DAILY POST OUR VIEW It's generally true that if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. But it's also often the case that when you pay more than peanuts, all you get is better-paid monkeys. MPs take off to pilot level My God, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. And if you treat loyal workers like monkeys, is it any wonder they walk out on strike? My God IT might be true that if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys But no parents want a chimp looking after their kids. Sunday Mail Opinion: Crippling care 'Hey, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.' But they stood firm. Private firms get creative: to compete with public companies and their big CEO bonuses, closely held firms need new tools But before we get too hot under the collar, perhaps we should remember that if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. Richard Williamson's column: COUNCIL MONKEY BUSINESS There is an old saying that if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. IRISH DAILY Mirror COMMENT: The comedy continues but it is not funny The argument is that if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. Record View; The House of Greed
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