get one's money's worth
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Receive good value, as in They performed four extra songs, so we really got our money's worth, or We got our money's worth at the beach—there wasn't a cloud in the sky. This expression often but not always refers to a monetary expenditure.
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“Was” is used for the indicative past tense of “to be,” and “were” is only used for the subjunctive past tense.
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