in the money
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Also, in the chips . Rich, affluent. For example, When he's in the money, he's extremely generous to his friends , or After that box-office bonanza, she's in the chips . The chips in the variant presumably allude to poker chips. [ Colloquial ; late 1800s]
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Placing first, second or third in a contest on which a bet has been placed, especially a horse race. For example, My luck held today, and I ended up in the money . [c. 1900]
Example Sentences
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Dunlap says he has no interest in the money and believes it should go to real victims.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026
Cutting prices in a crisis doesn’t square with the usual picture of hard-nosed commodities traders, but Abbott says his microbes are still in the money thanks to Pivot Bio’s low production and shipping costs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
And some experts think conditions in the money markets indicate that the Fed is in danger of repeating its 2019 mistake of taking too much liquidity out of the system.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 28, 2025
Warsh wants to see a return of monetarism, a school of thought that holds that increases in the money supply can drive inflation.
From Barron's • Oct. 8, 2025
“In fish money. Surely that ain’t good human money. Refigure. What d’ye call that in the money of men?”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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