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Where there's MUCK there's brass
Brass
is a slang and dialectal word for ‘money’ here.
1678
English Proverbs
(ed.2) 179
Muck and money go together.
1855
Hand-Book of Proverbs
564
Where there is muck there is money.
1943
Farming Adventure
xii.
‘Where there's muck there's money’ is as true now as then. But farms today lack the mud.
1967
Punch
13 Sept. 396
‘Where there's muck there's brass’ synopsised for many a North-country businessman the value of dirt in the profit-making process.
1980
Cosmopolitan
Dec. 4
Our report [on blue-collar jobs for women] .. should bury the myth that women don't like getting dirt on their hands …Where there's muck there's brass.
money
is a slang and dialectal word for ‘money’ here.
1678English Proverbs
(ed.2) 179
Muck and money go together.
1855
Hand-Book of Proverbs
564
Where there is muck there is money.
1943
Farming Adventure
xii.
‘Where there's muck there's money’ is as true now as then. But farms today lack the mud.
1967
Punch
13 Sept. 396
‘Where there's muck there's brass’ synopsised for many a North-country businessman the value of dirt in the profit-making process.
1980
Cosmopolitan
Dec. 4
Our report [on blue-collar jobs for women] .. should bury the myth that women don't like getting dirt on their hands …Where there's muck there's brass.
money
MURDER will out
Similar in form to
TRUTH will out
.
c
1325
Cursor Mundi
(EETS) 1. 1084
For-thi [therefore] men sais into this tyde [time], Is no man that murthir may hide.
c
1390
Nun's Priest's Tale
l. 4242
Mordre wol out that se we day by day.
1596
Merchant of Venice
II
. ii. 73
Truth will come to light; murder cannot be hid long.
1860
Woman in White
II
. 64
Crimes cause their own detection, do they? And murder will out (another moral epigram), will it?
1978
Seclusion Room
ix.
‘Murder will out,’ Berman announced, smiling fatuously.
concealment
;
violence
TRUTH will out
.
c1325
Cursor Mundi
(EETS) 1. 1084
For-thi [therefore] men sais into this tyde [time], Is no man that murthir may hide.
c
1390
Nun's Priest's Tale
l. 4242
Mordre wol out that se we day by day.
1596
Merchant of Venice
II
. ii. 73
Truth will come to light; murder cannot be hid long.
1860
Woman in White
II
. 64
Crimes cause their own detection, do they? And murder will out (another moral epigram), will it?
1978
Seclusion Room
ix.
‘Murder will out,’ Berman announced, smiling fatuously.
concealment;
violence
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