fast/quick buck
noun
: money that is earned or gotten quickly
greedy opportunists looking to make a fast/quick buck
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He is keyed into this sly figure’s antics and confidently channels his hunger for making a quick buck, but is less convincing when required to tune into more subtle registers.
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Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2024
In many ways, political slop is a logical end point for these image generators, which seem most useful for people trying to make a quick buck.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2024
A lot of my friends and I, there’s a circuit of people going to Alaska for decades to make a quick buck, especially artists trying to make quick cash.
—Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2024
Then again, the whole point of the Democratic ticket is to be a clearly better option than Trump, not just a different flavor of the same willingness to smile for a quick buck from chumps.
—Jim Geraghty, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
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Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2024
In many ways, political slop is a logical end point for these image generators, which seem most useful for people trying to make a quick buck.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2024
A lot of my friends and I, there’s a circuit of people going to Alaska for decades to make a quick buck, especially artists trying to make quick cash.
—Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2024
Then again, the whole point of the Democratic ticket is to be a clearly better option than Trump, not just a different flavor of the same willingness to smile for a quick buck from chumps.
—Jim Geraghty, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
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