Noun
thirty pieces of silver pl (plural only)
(figuratively) A reward for betrayal.
Damn it all, you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver. Aneurin Bevan
Dear Sister, You dream like mad, you love like tinder, you aspire like a star-struck moth - for what? That you may hive little lyrics, and sell to a publisher for thirty pieces of silver. Richard Le Gallienne