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get one's money's worth

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  1. 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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Not even the all but all-powerful desire to get one's money's worth, since it had once been paid, could contend against the blush of shame that rose on the cheek of the reader.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret

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