conscience money

Related to conscience money: money conscious

conscience money

Money paid to another in an attempt to alleviate the payer's guilty conscience. I felt so badly about breaking my mom's lamp that I eventually gave her conscience money, in the hopes that it would make me feel better.

See also: conscience, money

Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

See also:

in surgery
pour fuel on the fire
get (one's) tail (somewhere)
get one’s tail somewhere fast!
get one’s tail somewhere immediately!
get one’s tail somewhere now!
kill for
kill for something
would/could kill for (something)
measure up (to someone or something)

References in periodicals archive

You have no legal right to severance unless you have an employment contract, but severance pay is conscience money. You benefit and their guilt is absolved.

Fired? Here's an exit strategy. (You're Fired!)

William Hill's contribution to the prize-money is much appreciated, but it is only a proportion of the total stakes (has Mrs Golding heard of the Levy?) and, in any case, conscience money is not enough.

Learn the ropes before dishing dirt

The lesson for Congress is that $3 million worth of ingenuously appropriated conscience money will neither buy effective monitoring of contra human rights abuses nor transform the practices of the contras and their commanders.

Contra conscience

Arsene Wenger had earlier been hit by a protest by Paris St Germain when he picked up Nicolas Anelka for just pounds 500,000 "conscience money" and by Marseilles after his summer capture of Mathieu Flamini.

Football: Gunners in wonder kid 'poach' row

词组	conscience money
释义	conscience money Related to conscience money: money conscious conscience money Money paid to another in an attempt to alleviate the payer's guilty conscience. I felt so badly about breaking my mom's lamp that I eventually gave her conscience money, in the hopes that it would make me feel better. See also: conscience, money Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. See also: in surgery pour fuel on the fire get (one's) tail (somewhere) get one’s tail somewhere fast! get one’s tail somewhere immediately! get one’s tail somewhere now! kill for kill for something would/could kill for (something) measure up (to someone or something) References in periodicals archive You have no legal right to severance unless you have an employment contract, but severance pay is conscience money. You benefit and their guilt is absolved. Fired? Here's an exit strategy. (You're Fired!) William Hill's contribution to the prize-money is much appreciated, but it is only a proportion of the total stakes (has Mrs Golding heard of the Levy?) and, in any case, conscience money is not enough. Learn the ropes before dishing dirt The lesson for Congress is that $3 million worth of ingenuously appropriated conscience money will neither buy effective monitoring of contra human rights abuses nor transform the practices of the contras and their commanders. Contra conscience Arsene Wenger had earlier been hit by a protest by Paris St Germain when he picked up Nicolas Anelka for just pounds 500,000 "conscience money" and by Marseilles after his summer capture of Mathieu Flamini. Football: Gunners in wonder kid 'poach' row
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