quick buck en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Australia) audio
- /ˌkwɪk ˈbʌk/
Meanings
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(idiomatic, informal, uncountable) A large sum of money earned easily and quickly.
Tom Dans, Trump’s former Arctic commissioner and an investor, said while there is not a “quick buck” to be made – mining, he says, is a long-term business – it is an “exciting time” for Greenland.
2025 March 8, Miranda Bryant, quoting Tom Dans, “‘It’s very unpredictable’: divided Greenland prepares to vote amid Trump-inspired existential crisis”, in The Observer, →ISSN:Seen in full, the coin illustrates what watchdogs have long understood: Many untruths that Americans encounter online aren’t created by foreign actors trying to sow division. They simply exist to help someone, somewhere, make a quick buck.
2022 January 28, Stuart A. Thompson, “How Trump Coins Became an Internet Sensation”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:Mr. Burns is similarly perfectly cast as a heartless capitalist willing to do anything for a quick buck, even if it means endangering the lives of those around him and Marge elegantly rounds out the main cast as a good, pure-hearted and overly indulgent woman who sees the big, good heart (literally and metaphorically) of a monstrous man-brute.
2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):Stan Myles adds that the Griffiths are still among us, too—still grinding out their fears and fantasies in the guise of “relevant” flicks, most of which turn out to be variations on the same old theme […] writers still churn out quick-buck distortions of the truth; but issues are avoided like the plague; white filmster—in a frenzy of self-abasement, perhaps—have succeeded only in being more subtle instead of less racist; and even some black filmsters—in a rush for questionable glory—have created one-dimensional portraits of their people.
1972 May, B. J. Mason, “Black Cinema Expo ’72”, in Ebony, volume 27, number 7, page 160:
Relateds
Synonyms
fast money · fast buck · easy money
Translations (8)
ja 泡銭 (easy money) · fr argent facile (easy money) · cmn 撈錢 /捞钱 (easy money) · de schnelles Geld (easy money) · fi helppo raha (easy money) · cmn 急功近利 (easy money) · pl łatwa kasa (easy money) · ru сруби́ть бабло́ (easy money)