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monkey money
noun- an excessive price to pay; silly money UK
Acquired an earlier US usage, now obsolete, as “foreign money”. - I told him I was not going to pay monkey money for a ticket[.] — Martin King and Martin Knight, The Naughty Nineties, p. 159, 1999
- the salary paid to film extras in US films shot in Canada CANADA
- — Martin Stone, 24 June 2002
- on the railways, a pass to ride for free US
- — Ramon Adams, The Language of the Railroader, p. 112, 1977
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