take the cash and let the credit go
take the cash and let the credit go
To only accept instant gratification. The phrase comes from Edward FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, a 19th-century translation of Persian poetry. I know you teenagers like to take the cash and let the credit go, but you have to work hard over your entire high school career if you want to get into a good college.
See also: and, cash, credit, go, let, take
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- all your base are belong to us
- belong
- AYBABTU
- (as) sure as eggs (is eggs)
- a penny for them
- be twiddling (one's) thumbs
- be twiddling your thumbs
- 57
- and the rest
- and how