money-spinner

money-spinner

A lucrative business or product. Primarily heard in UK, Australia. That mobile dating app has proved to be a real money-spinner for the developer—it's making them more money than anything else they've launched before.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • You beauty!
  • swipe right
  • swipe left
  • in favor (with someone)
  • in favor with
  • in/out of favour
  • You beaut!
  • register on
  • register on (something)
  • slow burn
References in periodicals archive
Kolkata, February 27 (ANI): Youth in Kolkata have taken to cyber gaming in a big way as it is fast emerging as a money-spinner and a lucrative career option.
Youth taking to cyber gaming as a career option
"There proved a real may well be another money-spinner concert like the Elton at New Road John one but it depends who is available to do it.
New Road plan concert cash cushion
Since then, it has created the money-spinner Pop Idol, the most successful TV format in entertainment history
Spice Girls guru sells up for pounds 100m
It is the latest money-spinner from Friends Reunited, which was launched four years ago by husband and wife Steve and Julie Pankhurst.
Friends reunited with their music
And if similar animal antics at Christmas are anything to go by, it could be a money-spinner.
Girls go on bunny hop
Several thousand people turned up at the park east of Paris, built in the hopes of turning debt-laden Euro Disney into a money-spinner after years of financial anxiety.
DYNAMIC RIDE THROUGH MOVIE WORLD
We could demolish Dunstanburgh Castle to provide the stone for a road bridge link to the mainland - after all, why not have the island as a 24/7 money-spinner when wind farms only turn a fast buck on the back of subsidies.BARRY PRINGLE, Beadnell.
A blight on our county; Views of the North
The worrying proliferation of these businesses, some not properly regulated, suggests the growing number of older people unable to look after themselves is a money-spinner.
Care must outdo cash
CORONATION Street has got the whiff of a new money-spinner...
Buy your love eau de Corrie
The pair - called Mandeville and Wenlock - should be a money-spinner.
And will the strange mascots come too?
After saying "women scorn jobless men", she says "[A woman] might be wiser in acquiring a sure-fire permanent money-spinner for herself - a science degree."
No money-spinner; LETTERS
A finalist in the 2007 Blue Riband at Hall Green, Droopys Nelson won 20 of his 63 races accruing pounds 5,925 in win prize money, he proved a real money-spinner for his sporting connections wit a pounds 10 level stake on each of his races returning a profit of pounds 102.
Time called on the career of leading stayer Droopys Nelson
The son of a highly-regarded Aussie sprinter, he can prove a real money-spinner from a yard that has a great record at this track.
AMNESTY ON FOR TREBLE
GUIDANCE issued to councils not to use wheel-clamping as a money-spinner is both welcome and sensible.
Fairer way; Evening Chronicle COMMENT
Out of every major money-spinner - from the aggregates levy to vehicle excise duty - IHT was overwhelmingly declared least popular, taking 38 per cent of the vote, over three times that of council tax, which polled 12 per cent of the 522 respondents.
Tax we hate the most