for one's money
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“One has to beg for one’s money as if it were a loan,” he said about the freelance life, “instead of being one’s rightful earnings long overdue.”
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I have an invitation to two grand parties, and it is as well to have something for one’s money.
From Project Gutenberg
If they return civility, that’s value for one’s money all right.
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He submitted to her superior authority, as he always did, and settled in Clarkson, where one could get much more for one's money than in Washington.
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The speaker likes city life: it is expensive, he admits, but one has something for one’s money there.
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