bad money
Example Sentences
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“Mindset is so important, and sometimes we end up being very hard on ourselves for making bad money choices. If we don’t forgive ourselves, it can be a barrier to doing better.”
From Seattle Times • Apr. 22, 2024
Michelle Singletary’s Jan. 8 Business column had this grammatically jarring headline: “Here’s seven bad money habits to break in 2023” instead of “Here are 7 bad money habits to break in 2023.”
From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2023
In the end, Calhoun preferred bad money to good, because it better protected the foundations of the slave society that he wanted to defend above all else.
From Slate • Sep. 22, 2021
But, goes an old argument, hasn’t art always been bankrolled by bad money?
From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2019
“It is of no use,” they said, “to throw away a small sum of good money after a large sum of bad money, for it is all lost, anyway.”
From Reminiscences The Story of an Emigrant by Mattson, Hans
