(n.) Money given in payment for votes or political influence; bribe money; swag.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are bouquets and photographs, that famous Freddie Starr front page framed on the wall, a large blond-wood desk upon which lie a guide to St Lucia, a letter from Boodles the jeweller, and a book cover, which I read upside down: Having an Affair: A Handbook for the Other Woman.
(2) This week's edition of the FT's How to Spend It, suggests some Christmas foibles – £625 gloves, £705 Black Amber perfume, a £10,000 Boodles bangle.
(3) Ideas that cater to new food trends, such as ready made “courgetti” – spaghetti made from courgettes – and “boodles” – noodles made from butternut squash – also helped attract new shoppers.
(4) It is currently the most valuable real estate available on the market and generates annual rents of £19.3m from retailers such as Boodle & Dunthorne, Mango and Zara.
(5) "Sweetheart," he says to whoever is on the other end of the line, and sitting the other side of the frosted glass, "I do need to speak to Charlotte at Boodles.
(6) The raid came on the day of the Stop G8 group's Carnival against Capitalism, targeting banks, hedge funds, mining and oil firms in central London as well as Claridge's hotel and Boodle's private club in the runup to the summit in County Fermanagh.
(7) But yet another half-cock game of hunt the boodle dragging out week after week?
(8) It also featured the private clubs Annabel's and Boodle's, and Buckingham Palace.
(9) In addition to Heaton, other members of the panel are Patrick Mears (chair), a senior tax partner at law firm Allen and Overy; Michael Hardwick, a consultant at law firm Linklaters; Brian Jackson, vice-president for group tax at Burberry group plc and previously tax partner at KPMG ; Sue Laing, a partner at law firm Boodle Hatfield; Gary Shiels, a business consultant; and Bob Wheatcroft, a partner in accountancy firm Armstrong Watson.
Lucre
Definition:
(n.) Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense.
Example Sentences:
(1) In The God Delusion I have a section called "Religious education as a part of literary culture" in which I list 129 biblical phrases which any cultivated English speaker will instantly recognise and many use without knowing their provenance: the salt of the earth; go the extra mile; I wash my hands of it; filthy lucre; through a glass darkly; wolf in sheep's clothing; hide your light under a bushel; no peace for the wicked; how are the mighty fallen.
(2) Er ... you've just put out a book documenting the Sex Pistols' 1996 reunion tour, Filthy Lucre .
(3) Glen Matlock's Sex Pistols Filthy Lucre Photo File is published by Foruli Codex, priced £20.
(4) Slingshot is not Facebook's first attempt at getting some of the Snapchat lucre.
(5) Of course, the insatiable nature of investors' and gamblers' lust for lucre means that some incredibly unsavoury wagers can be entered into.
(6) It is Isabella Thorpe in Northanger Abbey , a youthful but accomplished hypocrite, who announces her antipathy to lucre.
(7) But there is a calling that is yet above high office, fame, lucre and security.
(8) I say, 'Because it's total crap'") or to Johnny Rotten's comments when the Sex Pistols reunited for their Filthy Lucre tour ("We still hate each other with a vengeance.
(9) But do the Obamas really need the effortless lucre?
(10) Granted, it's an uneasy detente: Obama's team made it clear that it is only accepting the filthy lucre of corporate America because their old donors are tapped out.