make a fortune

Idioms  

1. Also, make a small fortune. Earn a great deal of money, as in He made a fortune on the stock market. Similar expressions are, as in Now that their parents have died, they're worth a small fortune. Make a fortune dates from about 1700, and its use with small from the second half of the 1800s.

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Example Sentences

This was a signal to bombard Lippmann with accusatory questions: If it’s such a great idea, why don’t you quit Deutsche Bank and start a hedge fund and make a fortune for yourself?

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I called Whitney again to ask her, as I was asking others, if she knew anyone who had anticipated the subprime mortgage cataclysm, thus setting himself up in advance to make a fortune from it.

From Literature

“The very first day, we said, ‘There’s going to come a time when we’re going to make a fortune shorting this stuff.

From Literature

That was the beauty of credit default swaps: They enabled him to make a fortune if just a tiny fraction of these dubious pools of mortgages went bad.

From Literature

They were correctly betting that the winners would make a fortune.

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