big bucks

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Noun

1. (idiomatic) Lots of money.

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

   • 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?

Synonyms

• megabucks