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If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys

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If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

something that you say which means that only stupid people will work for you if you do not pay very much 'This company is full of incompetents!' 'Well, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.'

See also: get, if, monkey, pay