coin (it) v.
to make a great deal of money.
It Is Never Too Late to Mend II 294: I see all this money-making is a contrivance to keep me in Sydney. It is absurd my coining paint at this rate. | ||
in House Scraps 126: The Bulls are coining money. | ||
Hot Springs Doctor 70: Torrence was then ‘coining money’. | ||
You Can Search Me 48: We can simply coin money with him. | ||
Bulletin (Sydney) 14 Nov. 12/3: Why, with vegetables at the present prices, he’s coining money! | ||
Carry on, Jeeves 226: ‘Twenty-five pounds.’ ‘Good lord, Jeeves! You’ve been coining the stuff!’. | ||
Low Company 209: Hey, this joint certainly coins the dough. | ||
Battlers 21: You’d be a knockout outside the pubs on a Saturday afternoon. [...] We’d coin money. | ||
Fings I i: I do me fair stint / I’m coinin’ a fair mint. | ||
Hazell Plays Solomon (1976) 88: I’ll bet you’re coining it in. | ||
Fixx 112: We were bloody coining it. | ||
Filth 62: That lippy fucker Conrad Donaldson Q.C. who spends his time coining it from the tax-payer. | ||
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 20: He’s coining it in selling those gaffs in Camolin. |