English idioms about money and luck

Each English idiom below comes with what it means and how other languages put the same idea. To see every language at once, open the side-by-side page for money and luck.

  1. For a very small amount of money.

  2. To cost a huge amount of money.

  3. To buy or agree to something without checking it first.

  4. To be lucky, often by pure chance.

    Elsewhere

  5. To hope that things turn out well.

  6. Don't count on a good result before it has actually happened.

  7. It will never happen.

  8. To have a lot of money.

  9. To have no money at all.

  10. To be in trouble or a difficult situation.

Phrases in bold with a red marker are written up. The rest don’t have their own page yet.