coin money

Idioms and Phrases

Also, mint money . Make a great deal of money easily or very quickly. For example, With a monopoly on the market he could coin money , or These highly motivated realtors just about enable the agency to mint money . This hyperbolic expression dates from the mid-1800s.

Example Sentences

Among the few things not granted were gold and silver mines, and the right to coin money.

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Offered to steer me right to coin money the way he was doing.

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In default of more definite information about the pacing mare, we turned to a farm called "Coin Money on a Bargain."

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In that year also the mint began to coin money from gold-dust, making five, ten and twenty-dollar pieces.

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Think of a sovereign State that can make no treaty, that cannot levy war, that cannot coin money.

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