money-grubbing

Related to money-grubbing: caution money, money's worth

money-grubbing

Obsessive and aggressive in one's attempts to accumulate and hoard money. Tom's always been a bit money-grubbing—he'd sell his own mother if it meant a bit more profit. These money-grubbing CEOs don't give a damn about their customers' wellbeing, so long as they're able to keep lining their own pockets.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • do (one's) bit
  • do bit
  • do one's bit
  • do your bit
  • bit by bit
  • take a breath
  • in dribs and drabs
  • be champing/chomping at the bit
  • champ
  • chomp
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Without Paul to hold her back, Jan has been free to be her daffy, devout, money-grubbing self.
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In this crisply-written and thoroughly-researched book, the author contends that higher education has over the last two decades devolved into a money-grubbing machine, just like any other industry, with its professors behaving as businessmen, and corruption ensuing, affecting the very research that is often upheld as fact, but instead, Washburn says, is influenced by commercial interests.
As one wine buyer for a large retail store put it: "Why would I sell (the equivalent of) four bottles of wine for $16 when I could sell two $8 bottles for the same amount?" This sort of money-grubbing logic prompts some retailers to either refuse to carry premium bag-in-box wines, or bury them on a bottom shelf, behind the dusty bottles of 1997 Beaujolais Nouveau.