Money is the thing we use to represent the value of a person’s worth, and it’s the stuff we use when paying for things. It’s important to learn how to talk about money.
Do you have any money?
How much money do you have?
What kind of money do you make? (It’s generally not polite to ask this kind of a question.)
If you need money to do something, you have to find it.
You can borrow money from a bank.
A bank lends you money.
If you want money for a future purpose, you save it.
At work you earn money or you make it.
If you are bad at managing money, you might lose it.
Have you ever lost a lot of money?
If someone takes money directly from you, the money is stolen.
There are many different ways to talk about people and their money:
A breadwinner is the person in a household who makes most or all of the money.
A gold digger is a person who marries someone for his or her money.
A sugar daddy is a man who makes a lot of money and spends it lavishly on his girlfriends.
A rich man who has a lot of money can afford a trophy wife. (trophy wife = beautiful young woman. Melania Trump is a trophy wife.)
A miser is a person who never spends money but has a lot of it.
A spendthrift is a person who carelessly spends money all the time.
A person who is filthy rich has a lot of money.
A pauper is a person who has absolutely no money.
A person who steals money is a thief.
A person who takes money from his or her place of employment is an embezzler.
There are some popular expressions that include the word "money."
