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bottomless purse
noun as in deep pockets
Example Sentences
Probability dictates that you are guaranteed to win eventually, but even if you had a bottomless purse, you could die before “eventually” arrives.
I could not help wondering what bottomless pit they were trying to fill, or from what bottomless purse.
Yet driven by Allen’s passion for space and science fiction and funded by his virtually bottomless purse — courtesy of co-founding Microsoft more than 40 years ago — construction of the airframe is complete and the Roc has finally emerged to the light of day.
In recent years, our pensions have been the seemingly bottomless purse from which Tory and Labour chancellors have extracted many billions, from abolishing the tax credit for pension funds on dividends, to progressively shrinking the size of our pension pots, to limiting the amount we can put into pensions each year.
He said "difficult choices" would have to be made over what to protect because "there is no bottomless purse" to pay for defences.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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