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more money than brains

more money than brains phrase: wealthy, but lacking the wisdom to spend that wealth wisely.

Phrase

more money than brains

  1. Wealthy, but lacking the wisdom to spend that wealth wisely.
    • The Diver ſhall walk at the bottom of the Thames; the Saltpeter-Maker ſhall Build Tom T---ds Pond into Houſes; the Engineers Build Models and Windmills to draw Water, till Funds are rais’d to carry it on, by Men who have more Money than Brains, and then good night Patent and Invention; the...1693 (date written), D. F. [pseudonym; Daniel Defoe], “Of Projectors”, in An Essay upon Projects, London: […] R. R. for Tho[mas] Cockerill, […], published 1697, →OCLC, pages 34–35
    • But I suppose that a prig with more money than brains was much the same sixty or seventy years ago as he is now.1873–1884 (date written), Samuel Butler, chapter IV, in R[ichard] A[lexander] Streatfeild, editor, The Way of All Flesh, London: Grant Richards, published 1903, →OCLC, page 16

Synonyms of more money than brains

Questions about more money than brains

What does more money than brains mean?
More money than brains means wealthy, but lacking the wisdom to spend that wealth wisely.
What part of speech is more money than brains?
More money than brains is a phrase.

Words near more money than brains in the dictionary

  1. more is more
  2. more kicks than ha'pence
  3. more life in a tramp's vest
  4. more like
  5. more like it
  6. more money than brains
  7. more money than sense
  8. more often than naught
  9. more often than not
  10. more often than nought
  11. more or less

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