Hello everyone, I'm Niharika welcome back
today we gonna look at some idioms for the rich
for the poor and for misers. Yes! we live in a society
and we have set of rich people we have set of poor people
and misers. So rather than just saying that he's rich
she's poor, he's a miser I have some
expressions that you can use. Now we all know
that rich, they are people who have
all of the money and possessions
Whereas Poor, Well they do not have sufficient
wealth to even meet their basic needs
whereas Misers, Well they have money
but they hate to spend it. So,
lets quickly have a look at some idioms or some expressions that you can use
for them. So, I have three idioms
for the Rich, so let's look at the first one here
it is - "To be loaded", Now someone who is loaded
has money in abundance means
they have lot of money . So,
probably you can use this expression as - My cousin lives in New York
and she's loaded. So, which means
here I mean to say that - she's rich of course
but rather than just mentioning that she's rich
I'm saying - "She's Loaded" she lives in New York and probably she makes a lot of
money she has a good job
a big house and she's loaded
okay, Another one is - "To be sitting
on a gold mine" Now someone who is sitting on a gold mine
probably has something
or owns something very valuable
(writing)
okay someone who owns something
really valuable is someone who is sitting on a
goldmine. So, I have this friend of mine
whose grandfather is loaded
okay he's extremely wealthy, but
when he dies because he is already ninety six years old
when he dies all his wealth will be
inherited by his grandson that is my friend
So, which means my friend is sitting on a
gold mine. He's rich and he's sitting on a gold mine because he's gonna inherit
all the wealth from his grandfather
okay, and then the third idiom...
or the third expression we have here is - " To have money to burn"
well! what does that mean?
You know there are people who are extremely rich
and they love spending their money. So,
even for the things that are not necessary. So, probably they are very impulsive buyers
or they just love to spend. So they are the people
who burn their money. So like my Aunt
Now she also lives in New York and
well of course her husband is super rich
she is rich, okay they are loaded
but they also love to spend their money
on unnecessary things. So she likes to go shopping every day
she buys a lot of stuff for her house which is not even required
so she burns money....
okay, So these are three expressions for
the people who are rich and
okay for the rich people
and then I have three expressions
for poor people. So poor people are the people who do not have sufficient wealth
to meet their basic needs or you know to enjoy the luxuries of life
so the first one is - "To be as poor as church mice"
So someone who is extremely poor
this is the right expression that you can say, so rather than just saying she's
poor you can say - Oh! you know what she's as poor as church mice
okay, I hope you like this one... another one is
"To be broke" - I am always broke by the end of the month
So, To be broke - means to have no money
so like I said
that I'm always broke by the end of the month because...
the salary, okay or the paycheck that I get
just gets over by the end of the last month, by the last week
So, I am almost broke
okay which means I have no money alright
and then the third one here is - "Scrimp and Save"
now this idiom means - that someone who lives on
very little money, Who's already little poor
okay and out which they save
for something...... like I know this man his name is John
and he makes very little money okay his
paycheck is not very Royal
okay him makes very little money
and he is saving out of that
for his children, who would like to go to
college okay so he's trying to save a lot of money for his
kids so this means that he - " Scrimps and Saves"
okay so if you have to use this expression you can say
I know this man who totally scrimps and saves
with whatever he makes. Okay
that this is the way you can't use this expression and now let's have a look at
set of expressions for Misers
So here are some expressions used for
Misers
so like I said in the beginning Miser people are the people who
hate to spend money, who just do not want to spend money
So, the other words that can be used for them
are - " A Scrooge" well a scrooge
is a person who is extremely stingy
and in fact Scrooge is a character that belongs to
a Christmas carol who did not like to spend money
so that's where this word comes from, so for example if you have a friend of
yours who
hates to spend money and just pinches him to
you know remove money out of his pocket so you can use the expression
'scrooge' for him. Oh! 'You're such a Scrooge'
okay, another one is
"A Skinflint"- well a Skinflint is again
who hates to spend money. okay who is
Miser or stingy
like, I have this cousin of mine
and she is really funny
you know what she does she re-uses her tea bags
so when she serves tea you always see that she re-uses the tea bags. She is such a
Miser. She is such a Skinflint
so that's the way you can use the expression
"Skinflint" okay and the last one
is "Tight-fisted" So someone who is
tight-fisted hates to spend money
hates to give or
spend money
like probably your boss
who is so tight-fisted that he just doesn't want to increase your paycheck
so he is tight-fisted. Okay
So this is the way you can use these expressions
hope they're helpful to you because as I he said we do live in a society
with some Rich, some Poor and some Miser people
I'll be back with a new lesson for you, till then you take care.....