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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Example Sentences

I asked three others to dish on their money talks.

From The Wall Street Journal

In this Money Talks: Felix Salmon is joined by journalist Mariana van Zeller, who has spent years reporting on black and gray markets around the world and has a new podcast, The Hidden Third, that delves into these powerful underground economies.

From Slate

In this Money Talks: Emily Peck is joined by Andrew Biggs, author of The Real Retirement Crisis, to talk about how the data contradicts the so-called “retirement crisis” in the US, what we misunderstand about the system, and what we should be thinking about when it comes to retirement savings.

From Slate

That debut movie for New Line Cinema, 1997’s “Money Talks,” led to another Ratner picture for the studio the next year: “Rush Hour,” an East-meets-West buddy cop comedy starring Tucker and Hong Kong action icon Jackie Chan.

From The Wall Street Journal

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

From Salon