more money than brains

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word more money than brains. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word more money than brains, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say more money than brains in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word more money than brains you have here. The definition of the word more money than brains will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofmore money than brains, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

English

Alternative forms

Phrase

more money than brains

  1. Wealthy, but lacking the wisdom to spend that wealth wisely.
    • 1693 (date written), D. F. [pseudonym; Daniel Defoe], “Of Projectors”, in An Essay upon Projects, London: R. R. for Tho Cockerill, , published 1697, →OCLC, pages 34–35:
      The Diver ſhall walk at the bottom of the Thames; the Saltpeter-Maker ſhall Build Tom T---ds Pond into Houſes; the Engineers Build Models and Windmills to draw Water, till Funds are rais’d to carry it on, by Men who have more Money than Brains, and then good night Patent and Invention; the Projector has done his buſineſs, and is gone.
    • 1873–1884 (date written), Samuel Butler, chapter IV, in R[ichard] A[lexander] Streatfeild, editor, The Way of All Flesh, London: Grant Richards, published 1903, →OCLC, page 16:
      But I suppose that a prig with more money than brains was much the same sixty or seventy years ago as he is now.
Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia