big bucks

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big bucks pl (plural only)

1. (idiomatic) Lots of money.

   The new managing director must be making big bucks after his promotion.

   • 1992 October, Steve Buckley, “Boss Hog: Jim Lachey is the best offensive lineman in football playing on the best team in football”, in Sport, volume 83, number 10, →ISSN, page 64:

     Ohio always was home, where his family and friends were, and such is the man’s allegiance to Ohio State that he once donated the equivalent of a full scholarship back to the school—and this was before he was making the big, big bucks.

   • 1999, Dale Brown, The Tin Man, page 96:

     But he was unable to get a gun permit and make the big bucks of an armed security guard, so he made minimum wage as a seasonal-hire watchman

   • 2006, Ann Coulter, Godless:

     After all the carping about how little teachers are paid, if someone enters the teaching profession for the big bucks aren't they too stupid to be teaching our kids?

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• megabucks