for one's money

According to one's opinion, choice, or preference. For example, For my money, a trip to Europe is not worth the trouble or expense. [Second half of 1500s]

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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.”

If they return civility, that’s value for one’s money all right.

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.

The speaker likes city life: it is expensive, he admits, but one has something for one’s money there.

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