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, after all, and the U.S. pays for almost a fifth of Egypt's military budget.
It at least seems to reaffirm another old cliché: money talks.
money talks as loudly in the Oval Office as anywhere else in politics.
The Americans have a saying, "money talks," which is much like one of our own.
As A Chinaman Saw Us | Anonymousmoney talks—but not unless its owner has a loose tongue, and then its remarks are always offensive.
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son | George Horace Lorimer
You will forgive me, my dear Mr. Viner, if I appear to be facetious, which I am not—but money talks.
The White Moll | Frank L. PackardThat we are in earnest we have got to assure him someway, and money talks best.
Gordon Craig | Randall ParrishBut still, "money talks," and even against his will Chester was impressed.
The Chink in the Armour | Marie Belloc Lowndes
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