money talks

Idioms  

1. Wealth has great influence, as in Big contributors to campaigns are generally rewarded with important posts—in politics money talks. The idea behind this idiom was stated by Euripides in the fifth century b.c., and some 2,000 years later Erasmus spoke of “the talking power of money” (Adagia, 1532). The precise current locution, however, only began to be used about 1900.

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money talks

As ever, the loyalists will go where the money talks.

From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026

Zac, a “swaggering tormented fabulist,” had invented a back story in a city where money talks and no one speaks about its provenance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

But, as ever in any marketplace, money talks and Arsenal have not closed the door on a move for Isak just yet.

From BBC ● May 8, 2025

You know that expression, "money talks, wealth whispers"? Well, these two haven't whispered a day in their lives.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2023

You may be all right and so may your Mr. Ford but, as for me, I never heard tell of him and money talks.

From Dorothy on a Ranch by Evelyn Raymond

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