pin money
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pin money
Small sum for incidental expenses; a small cash advance with a major contract might be called pin money.
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pin money
Small amounts of money for incidental expenses, as in Grandma usually gives the children some pin money whenever she visits. This expression originally signified money given by a husband to his wife for small personal expenditures such as pins, which were very costly items in centuries past. A will recorded at York in 1542 listed a bequest: "I give my said daughter Margarett my lease of the parsonage . . . to buy her pins."
[Early 1500s]
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- Money, Currency, and Denominations - pin money: extra money; small savings
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