Letter"M" is for this week.

Kathy

Today I am offering the word ‘MANNERS’. Hope you will like it.

MANNERS must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world. Good MANNERS is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred in the company. Always suit your MANNERS to the person you engage with. Even the mildest mannered man should never cut a throat, nor should he scuttle a ship. Agree?

Mother

I love my mother.

M*O*N*E*Y !
(Recognise what kind of "money" these are?)

black money
coin money
folding money
front money
funny money
heavy money
smart money
soft money
white money

Here come some more money ...

caution money
conscience money
covered money
dear money
fairy money
funk money
gate money
key money
mad money
pin money
seed money

black money: Income, as from illegal activities, that is not reported to the government for tax purposes.

coin money: Also, mint money. Make a great deal of money easily or very quickly. For example, With a monopoly on the market he could coin money, or These highly motivated realtors just about enable the agency to mint money. This hyperbolic expression dates from the mid-1800s.

folding money: Paper money.

front money: Money paid in advance, as for contracted goods or services.

funny money:
1. Counterfeit currency.
2. Money from an obscure or questionable source.
3. Currency that has been artificially inflated or deflated for social or political reasons.

heavy money:??

smart money:
1. Games. Bets or a bet placed by experienced gamblers or those having privileged information.
2. Informal.
a. Experienced, well-informed investors: Smart money is supporting the conservative presidential candidate.
b. Investments made by people experienced and well informed in matters of finance.
3. Law. Compensation beyond the value of actual harm, awarded by a jury in cases of gross negligence or willful misconduct.

soft money: Political donations made in such a way as to avoid federal regulations or limits, as by donating to a party organization rather than to a particular candidate or campaign.

white money: argent??

caution money: U.K. money deposit: money deposited as security for good behavior, e.g. by a student to cover damage to accommodations, furniture, or equipment

conscience money: Money paid in compensation or atonement, as for a dishonest or morally objectionable act.

covered money:??

dear money: A situation in which money or loans are very difficult to obtain in a given country. If you do have the opportunity to secure a loan, then interest rates are usually extremely high. Also known as "tight money".

fairy money:??

funk money: money that is transferred in a hurry (and sometimes secretly) by a frightened owner from a country where economic or political conditions are bad, to another country where they are good - transfer pieniędzy (dokonany często potajemnie) z kraju o niestabilnej sytuacji politycznej do kraju, w którym jest bezpiecznie; The former republics of Yugoslavia have lost out much on funk money.

gate money: ??

key money: Payment made to a landlord as an inducement to assure a rental.

mad money: A small sum of money kept for unlikely contingencies.

pin money: Money for incidental expenses.

seed money: Money used or needed to set up a new business or enterprise.

Source:
http://www.answers.com/
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/dictionaryhome.aspx
http://www.angielski.edu.pl/16501_business_idiom_funk_money

Futari,

Would you please explain those phrases with question marks that I couldn't look for the definitions from the Net? Thank you.


Elinor

Yes, I want to know,too. Thank you, futair.

Magic

perform magic(表演魔術)
to work magic(有神奇功力)
black magic(妖術)
white magic(善意魔術)
as if by magic(不可思議地)The medicine worked as if by magic.

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