pocket money

Noun

Meaning

cash for day-to-day spending on incidental expenses

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My aunt put my cousins into a children's modelling agency, then my mum did it with us. Me and my sister got a few TV adverts, which was good pocket money. A director saw photos of me and asked me to do a short film. Sullivan Stapleton

Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money. Chris Martin

A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children. Ian Anderson (musician)

You can't have bank holding companies acting as hedge funds. You can't have them taking a million-dollar pension plan for Joe Schmo the bus driver and treat it with the same risk appetite that you treat George Soros' pocket money. It's fundamentally ridiculous. Shia LaBeouf

Accompanied by their father Shankar Mishra, five-year-old Shreyanshi and 8-year-old Priyanshi visited the DC on Friday and donated Rs 2,440 – their pocket money. Source: Internet

An example of his financial embarrassment is when he is desperate for a pint of beer at his local pub, but has run out of pocket money and is ashamed to cadge a drink off his fellow lodger, Flaxman. Source: Internet

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