rake it in

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rake it in (third-person singular simple present rakes it in, present participle raking it in, simple past and past participle raked it in)

  1. (slang) To make a lot of money.
    • 2008, The Observer, 5 Oct 08:
      Budget hotels are raking it in as business people feel the crunch.
    • 2006, The Guardian, 12 Aug 06:
      Alas, geriatrics and convalescent homes, however regal, don't rake it in like moneyed metrosexuals.
    • 1997, Stanley Lombardo, tr. Homer, The Iliad, page 169:
      [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.

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