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.”
From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2013
Children also compete for one's money, time and resources.
From Time Magazine Archive
The speaker likes city life: it is expensive, he admits, but one has something for one’s money there.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Berdoe, Edward
If it is ever so good one feels one has had so little for one's money.
From The Golden Calf by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
If they return civility, that’s value for one’s money all right.
From The Shadow of the Past by Young, F.E. Mills
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