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rake it in en · VERB
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(slang) To make a lot of money.
Alas, geriatrics and convalescent homes, however regal, don't rake it in like moneyed metrosexuals.
2006, The Guardian, 12 Aug 06:Budget hotels are raking it in as business people feel the crunch.
2008, The Observer, 5 Oct 08:[I've l]ooted them all, brought back heirlooms
By the ton, and handed it all over
To Atreus' son, who hung back in camp
Raking it in and distributing damn little.
1997, Stanley Lombardo, tr. Homer, The Iliad, page 169:
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