tidy sum
Example Sentences
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That’s a tidy sum for you and your wife to enjoy, especially given your investment income.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 19, 2026
It’s a tidy sum that implies it took Musk less than seven seconds to earn what the average U.S. household makes in a year.
From Barron's • Dec. 23, 2025
It's not the first banana-as-art that sold for a tidy sum.
From Salon • Dec. 19, 2024
Despite the market tumult since the bank’s collapse, those investments could collect a tidy sum, if the F.D.I.C. can find buyers, and defray the cost of paying out depositors.
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2023
So that when the- 145 - war broke out, and his American clients broke and ran, he had a neat, tidy sum saved up, and could be fairly complacent about it all.
From The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse by La Motte, Ellen Newbold
