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Money talks.

Fig. Money gives one power and influence to help get things done or get one's own way. Don't worry. I have a way of getting things done. Money talks. I can't compete against rich old Mrs. Jones. She'll get her way because money talks.

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money talks

money can influence what is done or how it is done He was a fool to take the job, but money talks, so of course he took it.

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Money talks.

something that you say which means people who are rich have a lot of power and influence 'He can't act so how did he get the part in the first place?' 'His father's a millionaire. Money talks.'

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money talks

Wealth has great influence, as in Big contributors to campaigns are generally rewarded with important posts-in politics money talks . The idea behind this idiom was stated by Euripides in the fifth century b.c., and some 2,000 years later Erasmus spoke of "the talking power of money" ( Adagia, 1532). The precise current locution, however, only began to be used about 1900.

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money talks

in. money can buy cooperation; having money makes one influential. Like they say, money talks, but don’t try making it talk to a cop.

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