Money idioms Call my bluff
Team A
Make up false meanings for the idioms below, tell the other team the true and false meanings, and see if they can guess which is true
- Save your money for a rainy day- Save money when time is good in case you have financial troubles later
- The breadwinner- The person who brings most of the income into the household
- Bring home the bacon- Earn a salary
- A hole in the wall – A cash point (= ATM)
- Put your money where your mouth is – Commit yourself to something, for example by investing your own money
- Monopoly money – An amount of money that seems like a lot to poor people but is unimportant to rich people
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Money idioms call my bluff
Team B
Make up false meanings for the idioms below, tell the other team the true and false meanings, and see if they can guess which is true
- In for a penny, in for a pound- Once you’ve decided to do something, you may as well dedicate yourself to it 100%
- The pink pound- Spending power of gay people (usually quite high as they don’t have children)
- To hold the purse strings- Be in control of the money, e.g. in a family or company
10. Spend a penny- Go to the toilet for a “number one” (a pee)
11. Have your fingers in the till – Be stealing money from work
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