money

No bonus - Medium

When would a banker not accept a bonus? Find out about Royal Bank of Scotland boss Stephen Hester and learn how much his bonus was worth as you practise using much and many in our latest exercise.

Does the euro have a future?

Yes, no or maybe?

an honest day's pay for an honest day's work

fair payment of someone who works hard and does what he or she is supposed to do (angemessene Bezahlung)

on a shoestring (budget)

for very little money (mit wenig Geld)

Whose portrait is on the US $1 bill?

Abraham Lincoln, Sacagawea or George Washington?

make money hand over fist

earn money very quickly (Geld scheffeln)

go through the roof

reach extreme heights (in die Höhe schießen)

Let's sell Montana

Mike Pilewski offers to buy the state of Montana. Somebody's got to help reduce America's national debt.

False-color image of the Earth's moon. Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Let's cover the moon with yogurt

Day and night, all the recent news from the United States has had to do with the fiscal crisis. As the deadline approached for finding a solution, the political statements got stronger and the metaphors more colourful.

be almost out of runway

have no time left to make big changes (nach einem langen Anlauf fast keinen Handlungsspielraum mehr haben)

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