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名詞

easy money (uncountable)

1. (informal, idiomatic) Money that is easily acquired.

   Synonyms: fast buck, fast money, quick buck

   • 2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “The murky world from whence it all came” (chapter 2), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 46:

     […] the letters he sent to the Italian artists asked them not for nature studies as he intended, but for “the really hot stuff, if you know what I mean.” The Italians shrugged, decided it was easy money and supplied Gutenberg with some of the finest pornography ever seen.

2. (economics) A monetary policy that makes money, credit, or both readily available to many borrowers and at relatively low interest rates.

   Antonym: tight money

   • 2004, Nick Cave, “Easy Money”, in Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:

     Easy money / Rain it down on the wife and the kids / Rain it down on the house where we live / Rain until you got nothing left to give