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      [Noun phrase]  | "money for old rope" 


      1: money that is easily earned or gotten : easy money

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       [ "Money for old rope" ]

      1: Money for old rope A old saying that means getting money for nothing or doing nothing. It originates from a time when hangmen used to get to keep the rope from the condemned as a perk of the job and unscrupulous hangmen would just keep the rope and then sell pieces of old rope to gullible souvenir hunters at hangings instead.

        * e.g.,  ... I cant believe he was paid to sit around watching TV talk about money for old rope! 

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