David "Dai Number 9" Jones
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to not allow someone to win easily: We're going to give the other candidate a run for her money. to be similar in quality to or almost better than someone or something: He's so good at maths that he gives his teacher a run for her money.
- English (US)
GIVE SOMEONE/SOMETHING A RUN FOR THEIR MONEY meaning: 1. to...
- Znaczenie Give Someone a Run for His/Her/Their Money, Definicja W Cambridge English Dictionary
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GIVE SOMEONE A SHOUT definition: 1. to tell someone...
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- English (US)
1. A prolonged period of success. The slot machine gave me a run for my money, but, in the end, the casino was the only real winner. 2. A challenge. Sure, Sheila still became valedictorian, but Tim really gave her a run for her money!
give someone a run for their money. INFORMAL. COMMON If you give a very skilful person or team a run for their money in a competition, you compete as well as them, or almost as well. The British team gave the host side a run for its money to finish a close second in the team competition.
A Run for Your Money is a 1949 Ealing Studios comedy film starring Donald Houston and Meredith Edwards as two Welshmen visiting London for the first time. The supporting cast includes Alec Guinness, Moira Lister and Hugh Griffith.
To want a run for your money is to want a horse that you have placed a bet on to participate in the race. Sometimes a horse is withdrawn from a race after bettors have already placed money on it; those bettors did not get a run for their money.
- From the very first Google result for "run for one's money": This term probably comes from horse racing, where one may get considerable pleasure fr...
- The original meaning comes from the horse-racing world and just looking at the results in google books it was simply 'to give it a try and hope for...
- Since you didn't ask for the origin, I will answer with a plausible story that fits the image: A person pays a lot of money to get a ride in a jet...
run for one's money, (give) a. A close contest or strong challenge; to give a good return for one’s expense. This term may come from the racetrack, where it is used to describe deriving pleasurable excitement from a horse race even if one does not win all one’s bets.
A Run for Your Money: Directed by Charles Frend. With Donald Houston, Meredith Edwards, Moira Lister, Alec Guinness. Brothers from a Welsh village take their first trip to London to collect a prize, and meet a con artist and various other urban distractions.
