ducats

ducats

slang Money. Ducats were coins once used in several European countries. Come on, you know I don't have enough ducats to go on an extravagant trip like that right now.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

ducats

and duc-ducs (ˈdəkəts and ˈdəkdəks)
n. money. (see also gold.) Who’s got enough ducats to pay for the tickets? I don’t have enough duc-ducs to buy the ducks.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • duc
  • ducs
  • mi
  • do-re-me
  • do-re-mi
  • duc-ducs
  • cash money
  • no expense is spared
  • spare no expense
  • spare no expense/pains/trouble doing something
References in periodicals archive
First of all, Peter can happen to give a money changer in Milan a hundred gold Florentine ducats and want the same number of Florentines in Florence.
He concludes by reminding the impresario once again that since he has supplied all the music, and since over half the performances have been completed, he should be given his 100 ducats, as well as payment for the `figliuoli' that are performing on his account (we do not know which roles the `figliuoli', or children, would have sung).
(Shylock's method, unfortunately for him, is that of the comedic villain but not always the earthly wrongdoer: he speaks what is on his mind, often in a more literal language than would please the Christians.) He merely mimics Bassanio, who throughout this same scene has managed to hide through rhetorical flourishes that the ducats he constantly offers Shylock are, of course, Portia's (and her avoiding the loss of this wealth goes a long way to explain why she instead brings Shylock down).
True to his promise to Bassanio, Antonio arranged to borrow three thousand ducats from Shylock, a wealthy Jew.
I must ask an additional thousand ducats if it is to be completed on time." Sadly the king nodded.
Bassanio (Joseph Fiennes) asks merchant pal Antonio (Jeremy Irons) for a loan of 3,000 ducats so he may travel to Belmont and woo his sweetheart, heiress Portia (Lynn Collins).
The comparative table of revenues (102), expressed in ducats, shows at a glance the role played in imperial finance by each group of territories.
The fest, which loves using new technology, this year offers ducats via mobile phones.
This is the case when the money changer gives good money for bad money, but not counterfeit or defective money: such as golden ducats for silver ones that scarcely deserve the name of silver.
Francesca Giunti, natural daughter of the Venetian publisher Tommaso Giunti and wife of Niccok Manassi, the Venetian publisher of the third edition of the Demonomanie, wrote to Rome that her husband had printed 675 copies at a cost of 500 ducats, with the printing costs underwritten through her dowry.
And the org is prepped to defend a price point, the highest nonpremium on Broadway, that may raise eyebrows among industry watchers wondering why a nonprofit should charge a seemingly for-profit sum for its ducats.
For example, a money changer gives Peter who has his money in Rome but needs a thousand ducats in Milan a thousand ducats for one thousand and ten delivered to him in Rome.
His first part explores the progression of coin types (pennies, grossi, ducats, soldini, colonial torneselli), including their models and the specific purposes they served.